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OFFERS BIG PRIZE FOR SPECIAL RACE LAUREL, -Md., October 10. The Maryland State Pair announced that if the owners and trainers of the two-year-olds that started in the National Stakes on Wednesday are desirous of bringing them together again the association will add ,000. and Edward McLean of Washington will donate a cup. There was considerable dissatisfaction expressed by some of the trainers over the outcome of the National Stakes, and if the owners and trainers are sportsmen, who are anxious to determine the best of tin; two-year-olds now in training, the association will do everything possible to bring about a meeting. It is proposed that the race shall be a sweepstakes of ,500 each at three-quarters of a mile, and if it should be arranged, it would be run on Saturday, October 18. The conditions would provide that colts carry 12:! pounds and fillies 119.
