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KENTUCKYS ARRAY OF STAKE RACES Rich New Features Added and Values Greatly In. creased Over Last Years Figures. Kntrios lo all the stake races to be run in the course of the spring meetings at Lexington. Churchill Downs and Latonia will close at midnight of Monday. March 1. as will also one itn-portant stake race to be run at the Latonia fall meeting. It is a slake list bound to prove intensely alluring to all owners and in C— BCqatUH, -Hie to secure the nomination of practically every desirable race horse in the country. No new st;,ke races have been provided for the Lexington meeting, the improvi mint there being in the way of greatly um reused values. The stakes II ere and their gain in endowment over last year are: Add. d Added Pace. Age. Dhtt 191!. 1100. Ilinata Stakes. i -year-seas ... 1-2 Sl.hoo .mmi Idle Hear Stakes 2-year slds. l-u 2.000 S.000 Ashland Oaks, : rear old fillies i j.immi :l mii» Bine Grass Brakes. :t year-olds. 1 l-s 2,500 S.000 l! n AN Handicap, .•.-year-olds and over 11 Pi 2,000 MM .linden Handicap, S-year olds and over 1 1-4 2. MX .-,.111111 One new ran- rounds out the Churchill Downs stakes program excellently. This is the Proctor Knott Handicap for three-year-olds at a mil- and a quarter, with 1920.sh,000 added, an importai.l and valuable addition. Put the main feature in the Churchill Downs program is the raising of tin- en-downient of the Kentucky Derby from the 0-gd0 of last year to 0,000. This move will make its ml value nearly, ir not quite, equal to that of the world famous Kpsoni Derby, which is 2,250. If the Kentucky Derby of this year receives a hundred noniinatiiii.s and lias twenty starters, its net value to the winner will be syt jt probably will receive the hundred entries; it should. P.111 if Man a War goes to the post and is known to be at his best, the twenty starters become a doubtful mailer. I.e.i.iug the . Iliutiir Kuutt .Handicap ma. the Churchill Downs comparative statement of rallies for lttt and IWO is the following: Added Added Race. Age. Dist. Dili. MM, Kentucky Derby. tiu-ee.yar-ohls 1 11 eX0M ,0M ilbutante Stak"-. lwu-year- ohl fillie- 1-2 4.00O .",.000 I.a-hfuril Manor Slakes, two-year-eld eel!- and geldings .4 1-2 4.000 .1. 000 Spring Trial stakes, twe-year-; "his 412 4.000 .-..000 Kentucky Oaks. three, year- eld fillies 1 l-s 4.000 .".000 Kentucky Handicap. three rear-OMa and ever 1 14 lo.ooo 10.000 Clark Handicap, three year olds and over 1 1-lij 4.000 7. ."00 Three new featarea of high Impel I nan are added lo the Litonia program, being the I a tenia Oaks, for three-year-old fillies, at a mile ami a quarter, wilh ,000 ndded; the Ten Brett k Handicap, for thn e year-olds, at a mile and a quarter, with ,000 added, and the Daniel Boone Handicap, for three-year-olds and over at a mile and a half, witli 0.. 000 added. They should be productive of memorable races. Another cum- of liberal enterprise has been in the increase of ad led money to the Independence Handicap from its ,000 of last year to 5,000 this year, a step that makes it the Brest valuable handicap race ef North America, consequently one in be striven for by the best hor-es of the United State-. Tin ir owners simply cant gel away from such a value. They will have to come, especially since it i- backed up by four other richly endowed handicaps, for three-year-olils .hi. I oer. three with fCi.OM each added and one with slo.000. Thi- i-th. best provision for tin- handicap horses at any track in this country. Il seems that it would have been fitting to extend a measure of the -ami- liberality lo the Latonia Derby, which is left al its old figure. It is not thai its sl.i.OOO added does not sill fice to make it an object of solicitude to any owner of a g 1 1 hi co-year -old. bin that il is fully a- desc-rving of tin- fostering care of the Kentucky Jockey Club as the Kentueky Derby, its being at the correct Derby distance and mare truly a test of ability to stay, being a valuable consideration. However, it may cease in for attention in another year and in the meantime the Latonia sprint meeting will be a marvel of tempting opportunities. One of the big races to close in the litonia list is for its autumn meeHag, being the Queen city Handicap. at a mile, for two-year-olds, with SloOlMl added. Excluding the three new stake races, the I-ilonia i impari-oii with last year i-: Added. Added. Kace. Age. Dist. PIPt. 1020. Latonia Derby. 3 year-olds 1 1-2 5,0M 5,000 Cllpsetta Stakes. 2-year olds. fillies .",-S 4. Kill .-i.OOO Harold S!;,ko-. 2 year-old-. colts and geldings .", S 4.000 .Y000 Cincinnati Trophy. 2-year-olds :-4 .".MM 5,000 Independence Handicap. 3-year-olds and over 1 :i-lii 1.000 5,000 Enquirer Handicap, 8 -year-elds and over 1 1-10 .Y000 5,000 Quickstep Haadicant, t-year- elda and over 3-4 3.0OO ."..000 Inaugural Handicap. .year-olds and over 1 |-10 4,000 ."i.imo Queen Citj Handicap, 2-year- elda 1 .-,.000 10.000 Dates far the Kentucky meetings have 11.it been allotted, but ihe Kentucky Jockej Club has wisely .,p,i, , I i:- ureal arr.n ef rich -lake- without awaiting that formality. Doubtless they will be substantially as they wie la-t year. A —
