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INCREASE IN STAKE VALUES Kentucky Jockey Club Announces Striking Program for This Year. % Kentucky Derby the Headliner with 0,000 Added — New Stakes Provided. i ♦ i LOTISYILLE. Ky.. January 21.— One of Hw greatest array --f itakea ever offered by any jockey club in America is that announced by tlic Kentucky hockey Club for the - ing and summer racing of 1880. Announoeme-nt if the forthcoming stakes to be run at Lexington. Cluircliill Downs ami La-tnni.-i was made tea tght by Col. Matt .1. Winn, vice-president and general manager of the Kentucky .Ini key Club, upon his return from Lexington, where lie conferred with president Johnson X. Camden. The liberal offer in stakes is understood to be in keeping with the policy of Senator Camden and Colonel Winn to distribute to the horsemen and breeders money in proportion to the patronage ao-i urded racing. The unusual prosjierity which attended racing last year is reflected in the increased outlay of the jockey club. Chief among the events of the coming spring season is the Kentucky Derby, which this year will have 0,000 in added money, making its probable total value in excess of 5,888. This historic race now becomes not only Americas leading three-year old fixture from a sentimental standpoint, but one of the most valuable. Only a few years ago the turf world was stirred nUen the added money value of the Kentucky tK-rhy was increased to 0,000. It later was jumped to X1.Y000, nnd then to 0,000. Its eminence was assured even at that figure, but the progressive management of the jockey club was not satisfied. The new figure set by Messrs. Camden and Winn leaves no doubt as to the value of the race being in keeping with its country - wide prominence. The total that will be given away in stakes next spring and summer by the Kentucky Jockey Club is 1172,300. This, of course, does not include the daily purses and overnight handicaps. Winn MM contemplates the huge tol.-u to which these races will swell the offering the full extent of the clubs liberality may be appreciated. There will be no stake at Louisville or Latonia of less than !?." . 000 added. None at Lexington will have less ihau S3. 000 added. Six fixtures are carded at Lexington, eight at Louisville and eleven at Latonia. Four of these stakes are new ones, the Proctor Knott Handicap, the Litoiiia Oaks, the Ten Broeck Handicap and the Daniel liooue Handicap. The Proctor Knott Handicap will be run at Churchill Downs and he other three at Litoniu. The Proctor Knott Handicap is for three year-olds, at a mil" and a Miter, witli $."..MK» added. It will be open to the Derby starters and with appropriate conditions should furnish as gawd -p it as the big event. The Latonia Oaks, for three-year-old fillies at a mile and a quarter, with |5,000 added, provides .-, good race. The Ten Broeck Handicap is for three year-olds at a mile and a quarter with ,008 added. It will serve as a preliminary for the Latonia Derby with its .000 added, a; a mile and a half. The Daniel Boone Handicap, with 0.0011 added, at a mile and a half, is for three-year-olds and over. Announcement also was made by Colonel Winn that the Qaeea City Handicap, at one mile, for two-year olds, to be run in the autumn, would have 0,088 added. The full list of stakes for the sjiiing Bad si.ninier meeting follows: Lexington. 1Iiii.-it.-t Stakes. two-year-olds, one-half mile; S.1.0OO added. Idle Hour Stakes, two-year-olds, one-li.ilf mile: *888 added. Ashland Oaks, three-year-old fillies, one mile: ,888 added. Blue Orass Stakes, three-year-olds, one mile and an eighth: .0tn added. Pen Ali Handicap, three-year-olds and over, one mile and a sixteenth: ,000 added. Camden Handicap, three year olds and over, one mile and a quarter: ,880 added. Churchill Downs. Debutante Stakes, two ye ar-olel fillies, one-half mile; ,088 added. Hashford .Manor Stakes, two year-old colts and geldings, four and one-half furlongs: ,000 added. S| i ing Trial Stake*, Iwe year-old*, four and one-half furl.iig-: 13,000 added. Kentucky Derby, three -year-olds, one mile and a quarter; 0008 added . Kentucky Oaks, three -year-aid fillies, one mile and an eighth; ,800 added. Proctor Knott Handicap. three-year-olds, one mile ami a quarter: .v.Vlllxi added. Kentucky Handicap, three-year olds and over, one inih- BBd a quarter: 0,000 added. lark Handicap, tbree-year-ald* and over, one tnih- and a sixteenth: ST.oOO added. Latonia. niaaetla Slakes, two-year old fillies, five -eighths "f a mile: ,000 added. llaroid Stakes, two year-old colts and geldings, five eighth- of a mil-: ,000 added. Cincinnati Trophy, two-year -olds, three-quarters or a mile; ,000 added. Uttaafal Derby, three -rear olds, one mile and I half: 5,080 added. Latonia Oak-, three-year-old fillies, one mile Bad I quarter: ,800 added. Ten Broeck Handicap, three year old-, one mile and a quarter; ,000 added. Independence Handicap, three year-olds and over. one and three - sixteenths miles; 5,000 added. Daniel Boaae Handicap, three year -olds ami over, one mile and a half: S 10,1 100 added. Pnquirer Handicap, three -year-olds and over, one mile and a -ixteentli; $."..000 idded. Quickstep Handicap, three year-olds and over, three-quarters of a mile: $.,.0i0 added Inaugural Handicap, three-year-olds and over, otic mile and a sixteenth; ,000 added.
