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KENTUCKYS TURF PRIZES Lavish Outlay in Rich Stakes and Purses for Nearby Racing Sport Will Run for Sixty Days and andMonetary Monetary Distribution Will WillReach Reach 700000 LOlISVILLE Ky April 10 Tin Kentucky Jockey Cluli which since tn beginning if the racing season of 1lll has owned in l controlled the rjicu courses of Lexington Ix uisvillf niul La touia will inaugurate it Lexington on the 24th of the current uiontli i season Of spring inii sum mer racing that will run sixty days anil lie niirleil liy the distribution among horsemen of a matter of S700000 It is impossible i0 say with absolute accuracy at this time what the total will lie The overnight programs for the Churchill Downs and Latonia meetings have not been made up An ap ¬ proximation can lie had liy computing the values of the stakes that were closed some weeks back and estimating overnight race values on the recent an ¬ nouncement of g nil malinger Matt 1 AViim AViimthat that the average purses at Lexington would lie Jj OO the average at Churchill Downs 1200 and the aver ¬ age at Uitonia 1 00 00Seven Seven hundred thousand dollars will sot a new mark for sixty days of racing in Kentucky and the West No reliable statistics are available for an accurate comparison but it is extremely doubtful that there were ever about New York even in the fat years of the sport at Sheepshead lay Morris 1ark Gravesend and Hrightou Heach when sixty days of racing paid horsemen more generously There will be ten days of racing at Iexiugton that will yield about 72000 to the owners of thoroughbreds In the nineteen days of sport at Churchill Downs between S225000 and 230000 will be distributed In lie course of Latonias thirtyone days meeting horsemen will get a matter of 3OOOD or SrlM Tim daily average distribution for the Kentucky season will be l 000 or better It is not surprising that there are mure thoroughbreds of various ages and classes training at tin Kentucky tracks this spring than were ever in the Ilue Crass country before nor is it astonishing that the owners of so many of the powerful stabls of the East have made arrangements to ship their good horses this way after the finish of spring racing in Maryland MarylandThe The Lexington meeting will be marked by the running of a half dozen slakes none of smaller value in added money than 3100 and one the Camden Handicap of S50IIO The Camden is a race of one mile and a quarter It is generally a first rale attraction and it will draw u speedy field this rear lint it is eclipsed in popular interest by the Plue Crass The renewal of the Hlui Crass will be an event of unusual significance be cause it will probably bring to the post for a seven test at one mile and an eighth some eight or ten of the most formidable of the threeyearolds Unit are training for the Kentucky Derby DerbyKENTUCKY KENTUCKY DERBY HEADLINER HEADLINERThe The Kentucky Derby will lie the outstanding headliner of the meeting at Churchill Downs It will be run on Maji S A gallop of one mile and a quarter it will have an added money value of 30000 It will lie the richest threeyearold stake race run anywhere in the Inited States this year prior to the Iitouia Championship It has as has been said time and again attracted practically every colt and filly barring Samuel I Kiddles splendid Man War that showed anything like high class form as a twoyearold last year yearThe The Kentucky Derby will be one of a group of stakes decided at Churchill Downs that will have an added money value of S72500 and a gross value of SIOOOO or more The second stake on the Churchill Downs program in point of desirableness is the Kentucky Handicap A race of one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over the Ken ¬ tucky Handicap has an added money value of SIOOOO It will have a gross value of between jtllMIOl and 11000 It is a legacy from Douglas Park which was abandoned last year The Ken ¬ tucky Oaks will have this year S5COO in added money and the historic Clark Handicap 7500 There will be a brandnew race at one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds that will be known as the Proctor Knott Handicap and will have 5000 in adder money moneyThe The gross value in added money of the eleven stakes that will be decided at Iatonia will be about 100000 of which sum SSOOOO will lie added money The salient feature of the Ixitonia meet ¬ ing will be the Latonia IKrby a race of one mile and n half for threeyearolds that will attract more good colts and fillies than will either the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness Pimlicos richest race for entire colts and fillies three years old be ¬ cause it will be run later in the racing season Hut liy tin1 time the Uitonia Derby is to be run all the threeyearolds that are to be ready for racing this year should be fit for the colors and in their best form The l itonia Derby will have in added money Sl Sli000 i000 Its gross value should be in the neighborhood of 20000 If the winner of tin Ken ¬ tucky Derby should by rare good fortune win the Latonia Derby he or she will earn for the for ¬ tunate owner an additional 5000 At Iitonia as at Louisville the Oaks this year will be a 500 added money race raceTh Th Independence Handicap a race of one mile and threesixteenths will be a Sl Sli000 i000 added money race this year and new specials to encourage the development of long distance runners have been added to the old Latonia program in the Daniel Poonc Handicap SIOOOO added one mile and a half and the Ten Hroeck 5000 added one mile and a quarter The Daniel ISoone will be for threi yearohls and over tile Ten lirocck for threeyear olds exclusively
