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OFFERINGS AT PIMLICO Attractive Array of Valuable Turf Prizes to Be Distributed Total of 19 8 7 50 Including the 50000 Preakness for Eleven ElevenDays Days Spring Meeting BALTIMORE Md February 21 The Maryland Jockey Club the most progressive as well as the oldest of Maryland racing or ¬ ganizations has announced its stake program for the spring meeting to be held at Pimlico from May 1 to May 12 12The The same liberality that last fall prompted the division of the Pimlico Futurity into two separate contests each with 40000 addded thereby following a precedent established by the same organization a few years ago in dividing the Preakness and adding 15000 to each running is manifest in the values announced for the stakes and purses to be distributed during the approaching spring meeting meetingFor For the eleven days of racing from May 1 to May 12 it is understood the Maryland Racing Commission will grant these dates a total of 198750 in added money will be distributed among the horsemen The over ¬ night purses will be 1300 1500 and 2000 2000The The Preakness Stakes with 50000 added of course is the richest of all the Pimlico prizes in fact it is the outstanding three yearold fixture of early racing in the East Last year it was decided on the same day that the Kentucky Derby was run That un ¬ fortunate clash of dates will not occur this year The Preakness will be decided May 12 and the Derby one week later on May 10 This happy arrangement will be reflected in greatly increased entries for both races and interest will further be enhanced over the prospects of some of the same horses clash ¬ ing in both contests with the probability of one horse winning both events as did Sir Barton in 1919 1919GELDIXGS GELDIXGS AllE IIARRED IIARREDThe The Preakness is for threeyearolds en ¬ tire colts and fillies geldings being barred As there are no entrance fees to any of the Maryland Jockey Club stakes the only obli ¬ gation to be met by owners entering their horses in the Preakness is the starting fee of 1000 each The winner receives 40000 of the added money plus the starting fee while 5000 goes to the second horse 3000 to the third and 2000 to the fourth The weight is 12 5 pounds nonwinners of 5000 being allowed 4 pounds nonwinners of 500 allowed S pounds and nonwinners of 2000 allowed twelve pounds The distance is one mile and an eighth eighthNext Next to the Preakness in point of monetary value is the Pimlico Spring Handicap with 7500 added an increase of 2500 over last year This race is for threeyearolds and over one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthA A brandnew stake feature in the Jennings Handicap is among the spring stellar attrac ¬ tions Named in honor of the late William Jennings a horseman of Baltimore County the Jennings Handicap has been liberally en ¬ dowed with G000 added and as it is at the sprinting distance of threequarters of a mile The decision of the Maryland Jockey Club to restore to its old standing the Rennert Handicap as a closed stake feature instead of running it as an overnight race will meet with the approval of horsemen and public alike Last year and for several years previ ¬ ous the Rennert did not close for entries un ¬ til a few days before its decision and was only worth something between 1500 and 2000 to the winner This year it will have 5000 added with a 100 starling fee feeThe The Pimlico Oaks for threeyearold fillies has the same added money as last year 35000 and will undoubtedly attract all the best of that age and sex both in the East and West WestConforming Conforming to the new Maryland rule gov ¬ erning the selling races stakes for platers that were formerly called selling stakes havo become claiming stakes These are the How ¬ ard and the Arlington each with 3000 added at a mile and a mile and a sixteenth re ¬ spectively spectivelySTAKE STAKE FOR BREEDERS BREEDERSAnother Another comparatively new stake and one that promises to grow to real importance is the Pimlico Homebred Stakes This is a two yearold event that is to be run spring and fall Its special feature is that the condi ¬ tions require that each starter must be owned by its breeder and to have been his abso ¬ lute property since the time of foaling foalingThis This is a race that was framed to induce the wider breeding of thoroughbreds and it has found uistant favor The prize for this is only 2500 added but it is the intention to have it grow into one of the rich prizes of the Maryland juvenile racing racingIn In addition to these stakes that close April 10 there will be decided at the spring meeting the Pimlico Nursery for twoyearolds This Continued on twelfth page OFFERINGS AT PIMLICO Continued from first page 1 stake closed last September with 520 nomina ¬ tions tionsWliile Wliile there has been no announcement of I the Maryland racing dates it is announced by the Maryland Jockey Club that the Pim ¬ lico meeting will be conducted from May 1 to 12 inclusive The program for the meet ¬ ing will be announced in April shortly after the closing of the stakes and this pro ¬ gram will include a daily steeplechase steeplechaseSteeplechasing Steeplechasing has always been tremen ¬ dously popular at the Baltimore track and tbe Maryland Jockey Club is one racing organization that has always had a satisfy ¬ ing success with its races through the field I i addition to the 3000 added Green Spring Valley Steeplechase there will be a jump ¬ ing race each day of the meeting meetingAnother Another provision of this meeting is that in applications for stabling it is required that the name and pedigree of every horse must be given in writing by the applicant for accommodation This answers the double purpose of keeping an accurate tally of the horses on hand and at once simplifying the making of a program programTo To guard against the practice of added starters usually so unsatisfactory to the rac ¬ ing public a notice has been issued to the owners and trainers asking that as far as I is possible they give the names of their prob ¬ able starters in stake events to the entry clerk by 11 oclock of the day preceding the running runningA A further notice Is that all races of the mile distance will be started and finished at the sixteenth post to avoid any possible crowding of the runners on the first turn
