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GOOD PROGRAM OF LEXINGTON RACING LKX1NGTOX Ky April 12 Judge William II Shelley racing secretary on Saturday issued to horsemen tiie program book of the spring meeting of the Kentucky Jockey Club which is to open two weeks from that day During the ten days there will be seventy races for which the total distribu ¬ tion will be 571200 There are six stakes to In decided on the following dates datesHinata Hinata Stakes 3000 added twoyearold fillies I 12 furlongs April 24 24Ashland Ashland Oaks 5000 added threeyearold fillies one mile April 27 27len len Ali Handicap t000 added threeyearolds and over 1 1ili miles April 2 2Rlue Rlue Grass Stakes 3000 added threeyearolds and over 1 11 miles May 1 1Idle Idle Hour Stakes 3000 added twoyearold colts and geldings 1 12 furlongs May 4 4Camden Camden Handicap 000 added threeyearolds and over 1 14 miles May 5 5There There is no purse of less than 700 there being eighteen races for that amount There are thirty seven races for fSOO purses and the remaining nine nineRices Rices have 1000 c h added In the matter of ofdistances distances there are ten races at a half mile seven at four and a half furlongs nineteen at three quarters five at one mile seventeen at one mile and n sixteenth two at one mile and an eighth and ten at one mile and a quarter it Iwing a re ¬ quirement of the Kentucky State llacing Commission that there be no races of less distance than three quarters for threeyearolds or horses over that age and that there be at least one race each day at one mile and a quarter or a greater distance
