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BRILLIANT ARRAY OF STAKES m n r i i r i Great Increase in Monetary Value of Big Eastern Features. Westchester and Saratoga Associations Announce Fixtures for 1922, 1923 and 1924. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 29. Racing secretary Earlocker of the Westchester Racing Association and the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses announced yesterday the list of stokes for these organizations which will be rui: at Belmont Park and Saratoga respectively next year and in some instances in 1923 and 1924. The features for both of tliese courses have been added tn year by year, keeping march witli the prosperity of the turf in the East, so that they are now at a point where they yield a most generous return to those that win them. The Belmont Stakes of 1924 has a guaranteed value of 0,000, making it the richest of all our turf prizes. It will be the feature of the spring meeting at Belmont Park, as it has been in the past. The Hopeful, which is the chief two-year-old feature of the Saratoga program, will, as in 1921, carry a guaranteed value of 0,000. These are in keeping with the promises of the management that the interests of the breeders of the United States would always be of prime consideration. That these stakes will attract the pick of the juveniles now in the United States goes without saying. There is no change in the number of stakes of the Westchester Racing Associations program, but Saratoga has a new event for two-year-olds in the Saratoga Selling Stakes, which is unique, as it is exclusively for juveniles which were bought at the sales during the past August at the Spa. A feature of the race will be a 00 cup, donated by the Fasig-Tipton Company, which promotes tho sales at that point. ENTRIES CLOSE NOVEMBER 21. The Westchester Racing Association will close its stakes on Monday, November 21. The stakes are sixteen in number and are for 1922, 1923 and 1921. Those for the spring meeting for the three-year-olds and over are as follows: Metropolitan Handicap, ,000 added, 1 mile. Suburban Handicap, ,500 added, 1 1-4 miles. Toboggan Handicap, ,Q00 added, 3-4 mile. Ladies Handicap, ,500 added, 1 mile. Harlem Selling Stakes, ,000 added, 1 mile. Hollis Selling Stakes, ,000 added, 3-4 mile. The following are the events exclusively for two-year-olds, now yearlings: Juvenile Stakes, ,000 added, 5-8 mile. Keene Memorial, ,500 added, 5 1-2 furlongs. Fashion Stakes, ,500 added, 5-8 mile. Bouquet Selling Stakes, ,000 added, 5-8 mile. For the spring meeting of 1923, for then three-year-olds, now yearlings, the following will close: Withers Stakes, ,000 added,. 1 mile. Coaching Club American Oaks, fillies, ,500 added, 1 3-8 miles. For the spring meeting, 1924, for then three-year-olds, now weanlings, the Belmont Stake, guaranteed value 0,000, with a plate of 00 added by August Belmont, 1 3-8 miles. For the autumn meeting of 1922 at Belmont Park tho following stakes will close then three-year-olds and over, now two7year-olds and over, the Jockey Club Weight for Age, 0,000 added, 2 miles. For the autumn meeting of 1923, for then three-year-olds, now yearlings, Lawrence Realization, ,500 added, 1 5-S miles. For the autumn meeting of 1924, for then three-year-olds, now weanlings, Lawrence Realization, ,500 added, 1 5-8 miles. SARATOGA STAKES CLOSE NOVEMBER 28. The Saratoga features, which will close on November 2S, a week later than "those of the Westchester Association, are of the same splendid value which has year after year brought the best horses in the country to this lovely course in the foothills of the Adirondacks, and made these meetings conspicuous for their excellence. The events which will be decided during the summer meeting of 1922 for then two-year-olds, now yearlings, are as follows: United States Hotel Stakes, 0,000 guaranteed, three-quarters mile. Grand Union Hotel Stakes, 0,000 guaranteed, three-quarters mile. Spinaway Stakes fillies, ,500 guaranteed, five and one-half furlongs. Hopeful Stakes, 0,000 guaranteed, three-quarters mile. Grab Bag Handicap, ,000 guaranteed, three-quarters mile. Consolation, to be run in two events, ,500 guaranteed, five and one-half furlongs and three-quarters mile. Saratoga Sales Stakes, ,500 added, five and one-half furlongs. The following events to be run during the summer meeting of 1923 for then three-year-olds, now yearlings, will also close: Travers Stakes, 2,500 guaranteed cash value, mile and a quarter. Alabama Stakes fillies, 0,000 guaranteed cash value, mile and a quarter. The splendid weather of the present autumn has enabled trainers to break and test their yearlings thoroughly, and the entries for next years stakes should contain the names of the best of the young stock now in the United States. No doubt both the Westchester and Saratoga events will be most generously patronized.
