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NO PURSE LESS THAN ,000 AT PIMLIC0 Stakes and Purses Aggregating Over 40,000 Will Be Provided for Spring- Meeting. NEW YORK, N. Y., February 19. Entry blanks for the Pimlieo meeting will shortly be distributed. During the spring meeting 43,150 will be added in fifteen days. No purse will lie less than ,000. Some slight changes have been made in the conditions in the allowance clause. No horse will carry less than 114 pounds under the existing framing of the stipulations. The Woodlawn Vase will go with the Preakness. Closing of the entries for Aqueduct indicate a slight falling off in the two-yedr-old stakes, but all other fixtures have filled well, especially the three-year-old stakes. There are upward of 1,000 nominations, and the horses named are the best that raced last year, including all the star young horses and the highweight horses in the handicap division. The shortage of two yeuriJ ago is due to the absence of candidates . from the. farms of Major Belmont, A. K. Macomber. Lieut. G. A. Cochran and Jas. Butler, who heretofore entered liberally. The only relic of Jerome Park, where racing was conducted two generations ago, is a stable, the one that Tom Healey Used to occupy. Tom White, superintendent of the- Jerome Park reservoir, points to "it as" u"landmark. lt "Is surrounded by a little Italian settlement, and though a bit dilapidated still hangs together.
