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RMti "OUTLAY Maryland Jockey Club Offers 06;iB0 in Added Money During Eleven Days of Racing. BALTIMORE, Md.. October 2f. The Maryland Jockey Club, the oldest racing organization in the State of Maryland, is anticipating one of the greatest meetings in its eventful history when racing begins at Pimlico on Tuesday, November 1. During the eleven days of the fall meeting the immense sum of 00,150 in added money will be distributed in stakes and purses. Certain it is a goldeu harvest awaits horsemen at the picturesque course on the outskirts of this city. The Pimlico Futurity of 0,000 added is the tempting prize offered to settle the supremacy of the two-year-old division. It is indeed appropriate that the first running of this valuable race should be a real championship contest. Such it will be, with the field composed of the unbeaten Morvich, which will meet for the first time the queeu of the fillies, Miss Joy; Buuting, the Futurity winner; Startle, the heroine of the Kentucky Club Stakes; the Rancocas star Kai-Sang; St. Henry, Jeanne Bowdre and others with excellent racing credentials. This contest alone would be enough to distinguish the Pimlico meeting, but there are nine other important fixtures that will command the attention of the patrons of the Maryland Jockey Club during the eleven days of racing. Aside from the Pimlico Futurity the Bowie, Walden and Pimlico Cups, together with the Manly Memorial Steeplechase, each with 0,000 added, will command attention and bring big crowds to Pimlico to witness the decision of these popular and interesting features. The serial weight -for-age races, three in number, the first of S2.000 added, the second of ,500 added and the third of ,000 added, at distances of three-quarters, one mile and one and one-eighth miles respectively, are also stake events that have become decidedly popular with horsemen and public alike. The Maryland Jockey Club gives-an added incentive to win these races of ,000 to the owner of the horse winning any two of the -three events. Another innovation at Pimlico Is the presenting if 0 to the trainer of each race. The overnight purses range in value from ,300 to ,500 and even owners without stake horses cannot fail to be attracted by the liberal program offered bjv Marylands oldest racing organization. The order of the running of the stake races to be decided at Pimlico is here shown: Pimlico Serial Weight for Age Race No. 1, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile; Tuesday, November 1. Pimlico Autumn Handicap, ,000 added, one and one-quarter miles; Wednesday, November 2. Pimlico Serial Weight for Age Race No. 2, ,500 added, one mile; Friday November L Pimlico Futurity, 0,000 added, one mile; Saturday, November 5. Bowie Stakes, 0,000 added, one and one-half miles; Monday, November 7. Manly Memorial Stakes Steeplechase, 0,000 added, two and one-half miles; Tuesday, November S. Blkridge Steeplechase, ?3,000 added, two miles; Wednesday, November 0. Walden Stakes, 0,000 added, one mile; Thursday, November 10. Pimlico Serial Weight for Age Race No. 3, ,000 added, one and one-eighth miles; Friday, November 11. Pimlico Cup, 0,000 added, two and one-quarter miles; Saturday, November 12.
