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SPRIG STAKES AT PIMLICO Total of 210650 to Be Offered in Eleven Days of Racing Tfew Prizes Are Added to the Ust ProTldlng n Feature for Each Day of the Meeting When the program book for the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club is pub ¬ lished for the Pimlico sport in May there will be found five new stakes on the list Al ¬ though the dates for Maryland racing have not been announced by the State Racing Commission it is expected that Pimlico will be awarded eleven days beginning about May 1 and working with that idea in view it has been arranged to have a stake on each day of the meeting meetingThe The plans call for the distribution of 210 650 or a daily average of 19150 a liberality that has been unheard of even in these days of fabulous purse money The overnight races on the flat will be of from 1200 to 2500 in added money while the steeple ¬ chases will range up from a low value of 2000 added addedOf Of course the big prize of the spring is the Preakness with 50000 added Next in im ¬ portance to this is the Pimlico Spring Han ¬ dicap with 7500 added There are four other stakes of 5000 added value each and the others arc of 2500 and 3000 value valueThe The new stakes that have been added to the old list to bring the program up to a stake a day as was the rule at the fall meeting last year are the Jennings Handicap for threeyearolds and over Arlington Selling Stakes for the same age division the Rennert Handicap for threeyearolds and the Howard a selling stake also for threeyearolds and the Pimlico HomeBred for two year olds oldsLIST LIST OF THE STAKES STAKESFollowing Following is a complete list of the stakes that will be offered at Pimlico during its May meeting meetingPrcakness Prcakness for threeyearolds 30000 adJed one mile and an eighth eighthPimlico Pimlico Spring Handicap for threeyearolds and over 7500 added one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthPimlico Pimlico Oaks for threeyearold fillies 5000 added one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthPimlico Pimlico Nursery for twoyearolds 2500 added closed four and a half furlongs furlongsSpring Spring Juvenile for twoyearolds 5009 added four and a half furlongs furlongsGreen Green Spring Valley Steeplechase for fonrycar olds and over 5000 added two miles milesNew New Jennings Handicap for threeyearolds nnd upward 5000 added threequarters of a mile mileNew New Hcnnort Handicap for threeyearolds 5000 pdded threequarters of a mile mileNew New Pimlico HomcUrcd for twoyearolds 2100 added fiveeighths of a mile mileNew New Howard Selling for threeyearolds 7rOO to 4r CO 1000 added one mile mileNew New Arlington Selling for threeyearoila and over 5000 to 3500 3000 added one mile and andsixteenth sixteenth
