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PIMLICOS SPRING STAKES Six Fixtures, Headed by 5,000 Preakness, to Be Decided. Three Other Events Have Added Values of ,000 Each To Open May 1. BALTIMORE. Mil.. February 20. Stake blanks for Hie spring meeting of the .Maryland Jockey Club nl Pimlico have just been issued by Secretary William 1. Biggs. Six fixtures, beaded by the S2.1.000 Preakness. for three-year-olds, are down for decision during the fifteen-day meeting:, which will 0en Mny 1 and continue to May 17. In addition to the stakes an attractive list of overnight races will be provided. No nurse of less than SI. 000 will be offered, and in the fifteen days of raring ,lIiO will be added by the association. The Preakness. with its lich money offering, will unquestionably M n,iP 0f tle great turf events of the 1019 season. Practically every owner of a high-class three-year-old is pointing for the race, and the announcement that it will be run several days after the decision of The Kentucky Derby makes it possible for owners to try for the rich Pimlico event without sacrificing their chances of winning the historic Kentucky prize. An important change in the conditions of the 1019 Preakness bars geldings from competition. This eliminates J. K. L. Boss champion Hilly Kelly, but. while his absence Mill be greatly regretted by turf enthusiasts, with the wealth of three-year-old material to draw from the attractiveness of the event will not suffer materially. As geldings will be permitted to t compete in the Kentucky Derby, thft widespread clamor for another meeting between Hilly Kelly and- J. W. McClellands Eternal will probably be- gratified prior to the running of the Preakness. WOODLAWN VASE IS ADDED. In addition to the ..1,000 in added money, the Preakness Stakes will also include the Woodlawn Vase trophy, which will go to the owner of the winning horse. The Preakness distance is a mile and an eighth, and of the added money ,000 goes to the second horse. .,000 to the third and ,000 to the fourth. Entries for the race close on April Three of the remaining stakes to be decided at the spring meeting have added values of $.",000. They are the Pimlico Oaks, the Pimlico Spring Handicap and the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase Handicap. The Spring Juvenile, for two-year-olds, lias S2..100 added, and the Pimlico Nursery, entries for which closed in October. 1018. with 227 nomi- lions" in forty-four different interests, has an added value of SI, .100. This event probably will In- run on May 3. Following are the stakes: Spring Juvenile Stakes, for two-year-olds, four and a half furlongs; S2..100 added. Pimlico Nursery, for two-year-olds, four and a half furlongs; ..100 added. Preakness Stakes, for three-year-olds entire olts and fillies, mile and an eighth; S2.1.000 and Woodlawn Vase added. Pimlico Oaks, for three-year-old fillies, mile and a sixteenth; .,000 added. Pimlico Spring Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, mile- and a sixteenth; 5:5,000 added. Green Spring Valley Steeplechase Handicap, for four-year-olds and over, two miles; S.1,000 added.
