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j • ] • 1 I I I — ■ ■■ -_J I EMPhlE CITYS STAKE ARRAY Sixteen Fixtures for the Yonkers Courso Meeting in July Next. There is diapkryed on another page the stake offerings of F.mpi.e City for its summer meeting. winch closes the racing of the first part of the year on the New York courses and precedes Saratoga. There are sixteen states in the list, with 7,000 added in eight, and 2,500 guaranteed in eight more, a total of 9,500 in all. The value of the Mount Vernon tins been increased from ,000 to ,000, and the Wakefield from ,000 to ,000. Fnlries to the sixteen stakes are to close Mondav March _ . The stakes, with their conditions, distances and values are as follows: Empire City Handicap, three-year-olds and upward one and one eighth miles; ,000 added. Yonkers Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 added. Mount Vrrnon Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one mile; ,000 added. Fleetwing Handicap, three year-olds and upward, about three-quarters mile; ,000 added. Mount Kisco Stakes, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and seventy yards; ,000 added. Melrose Selling Stakes, three-year-olds and upward. one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 guaranteed. Arrow Selling Stakes, three-year-olds and upward. about three-quarters mile; ,000 guaranteed. Empire City Derby, three-year-olds, one and one-ipiart.r miles; ,000 added. Knickerbocker Handicap, three-year-olds, one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 added. Tarrytown Selling Stakes, three-year-olds, one mile; ,000 guaranteed. List Yiew Stakes, two-year-olds, about three-quarters mile; 0,000 guaranteed. Whirl Stakes, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs; ,500 guaranteed. Porm.ir.elle Stakes, two-year-old fillies, five and one-half furlongs: ,000 guaranteed. Wakefield Handicap, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs; ,000 guaranteed. Frivolity Selling Stakes, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs; ,000 guaranteed. Spiightful Selling Stakes, two-year-olds, about three-quarters mile; ,000 guaranteed.
