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CHURCHILL DOWNS LIST OF STAKES Kentucky Derby Has 0,000 Added Kentucky Han- dicap Included Among the "Events. LOUISVILLE. Ky., February 15; Manager Charles F. Grainger of Churchill Downs today announced the following stakes to be riin at that track during the spring meeting: May 10 Kentucky Derby, .for three-year-olds, one mile and one-quarter, 0,000 added. May 12 Debutante Stakes, for" two-year-old fillies. ?4.000 added; four and one-half furlongs. May 14 Bashford Manor Stakes, for throe-year-olds, ,000 added; three-quarters of a mile, May 17 Clark Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, ,000 added; one aud One-quarter miles. Merchants Stakes, for tlfrce-year.-old and over, ,000 added; onemile. t- , . . May 21 Juvenile Stakes, for two-year-olds, 2,000 added five-eighths of a mile. May 24 Kentucky Handicap, for three-year-olds and over. .?10,000; one and one-quarter miles, Mav 27 Spring Trial Slakes, for ."two-jear-olds, ,000 added; five and otOf-half furlongs ." May 31 Kentucky Oaks, for three-3ear-old fillies, ,000 added; one and one-sixteenth, miles. For Decoration Day there will be two races arranged having at least ,000 added. Tliese will be overnight races. . Tiie Merchants Stakes has not becnrun for" twenty-two years. Mr. Graingqr also announced that all of the stakes will close on March 4. Judge William Shelley will represent Ihe track", in gettiug" entries from stables now at Havana, while Hamilton C. Apple-gate, associated with Mr. GraingcV in the. management of the track, will Ro to Xew Orlean.s next week for the purpose of interesting the horseuien there in the stakes. -
