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SARATOGA STAKE VALUES ♦ i Guaranteed Events to Be Changed to Added Money Variety. i « 1 Two New Features to Be Added — American Turfman to Ride in Grand National. ♦ ■ « NF.W YORK. V.. February 2. — The Saratoga II ■ lag Association has decided to make an ini-portaat change in the ceadttioaa of :i majority of 11- stake races. Practically all of the famous fixtures decided annually .it Anieric a ■ most popu- l.ir racing center hare been of ■ guaranteed value. but in future they will be of tbe odded money variety. Ike Saratoga Handicap, heretofore a guaranteed event, will have 14786.000 added this rear. The Champiaia, Merchants and Cltinen**, Delaarate Mini Karaaae Handicaps will all range in ralae ii-.m .sl.mn» to .sa.iKHi added. The Keaaer stakes. inie of the olilest fixtures run in thin country, will be iiicn .:se,i froaa k1..-.im to ,800 added. Tliere will ;ilsi be aaaae carnages in the conditions uf the selling stakes, whereby llie top ntitsa will 1.. inereaaed froaa ,000 top to ,000 top and 3,000 bottom figures. Two new stakes will also I" established, the conditions for which will be published in n few days. Morton Dewltl Bambcigti, who baa been racing and tiding extensively in England this winter, having won and ridden seven of his own horses in steeplechases, will return to this country with fourteen ste.pieelnsers after the running of the Oram] National, in which he will rule on • of Ms own i . .r-es The horses will run in the name of Morgan 6, Hlair. that l**ing the new name of Mr. Bamberger, which he claimed threwgh court peimlasioa. Mr. Blair has bee* an amateur rider and -port-man for many years in this rountry. having WOO races for amateur riders in the past, lit1 is here on ac- • lint of the death of his father and will r.-turii to England in time to ride in the faajllnh steeplechase classic, in which he i- said to have an entry of more than ordinary ability. George w" . wingfieid of the Nevada stock Farm will race extensively iu the east t h i-~ eommg aea son. lie recently purchased the mare The Wife, by Commando -Hone Bale, from Mr-. Julias Walsh. She will co to the farm. Early Wright will have rt irge : f the taccta while in this sectlea. Jeffeman Livingston has engaged Tbeaaaa Bowaa to ride for him this year. Ceorgo Odaon leaves for Kentucky shortly to take charge of the Livingston horses. .1. W. May ha- decided to race his banes at Havre de Brace in the aprhag. The flrecatree Stable has donated Cock o the North, by Hamburg Braw Fas-, to the breediag bareaa. He will be located at Waterford, Va. ._ «. — . _ — .
