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JAMAICAS FEATURES Entries for Coming Spring Stakes StakesExceed Exceed Expectations Rancocas Stable Largest Nomi ¬ nators with Total of 155 Best Horses Named NEW YORK N Y March 13 The fact that the spring racing season of 1923 on the Jockey Club tracks is to be inaugurated at Jamaica May 2 gives increased interest in the stakes which closed on March 1 with secretary Walter C Edwards The returns for the eighteen events exceeded the ex ¬ pectations of the management and there is a guarantee of firstclass sport throughout the meeting meetingAs As was to be expected the Excelsior Han ¬ dicap of 7500 at a mile and a sixteenth has practically every good horse in the country engaged and the same is true of the Kings County and Long Beach Handicaps which are to be runver the same distance and are also for threeyearolds and over Prac ¬ tically the same nominations have been mado for all three races but the Excelsior has the call with the public in the way of popularity as it is to Jamaica what the Suburban ia to Belmont Park the Brooklyn Handicap to Aqueduct and the Saratoga Handicap to Sar ¬ atoga Springs The Excelsior was won last year by Sennings Park after a brilliant contest with Mad Hatter and Yellow Hand HandThe The heaviest nominator to the Excelsior and in fact to all of the Jamaica events ia the Rancocas Stable whose grand total ia 155 entries surpassing by thirtyfive the nominations of Harry Payne Whitney who is easily second in the way of patronage for the fixtures which closed on March 1 GOOD HOUSES EXCELSIOK Chief among the nominations for the Ex ¬ celsior are such good horses as Grey Lag Lucky Hour Mad Hatter Bunting Pillory KaiSang Thunderclap Olympus Prince James Firebrand Exodus Snob II Blazes Maximac Little Chief Captain Alcock and Flying Cloud There are in addition a band of good threeyearolds including Enchant ¬ ment Flagstaff Chickvale Zev Bud Lerner Battersea Purity Rialto Cherry Pie and Barbary Bush The presence of these three yearolds in the Excelsior Kings County and Long Beach Handicaps makes these events most attractive attractiveFor For the Paumonok Handicap which is the first of the great sprinting races of the year there is a powerful entry list This has al ¬ ways been one of the chief attractions of the Jamaica meeting and the distance three quarters mile is a warranty that the field will be a big one It is one race where the cream of the threeyearolds both colts and fillies take a crack at the older horses horsesAmong Among the older horses that were named for the Paumonok of 1023 are Lucky Hour Snob II June Grass Emotion Runantcll Tryster Avinner of the race in 1922 Sere nadcr Thunderclap Knobbie KaiSang Little Chief Exodus Dunboyne victor in 1020 Lanius Runelise and Rocket Some of the threeyearolds engaged are Wilder ¬ ness Tall Timber Battersea Purity Hev Bud Lerner Cherry Pie Osprey High Hand Silk Tassel McKee and Cyclops CyclopsTHREEYEAROLD THREEYEAROLD STAKES TILL WKLL WKLLThe The events exclusively for threeyearolds filled well especially the Stuyvesant Han ¬ dicap of a mile with a value of 6000 and the 5000 Spring Handicap at threequarters mile Nominations for these fine features include such good material as Messenger Osprey How Fair Goshawk Dunlin Mar ¬ tingale Blanc Seing Cartoonist William Tell Cyclops Tuxedo Cherry Pie Dustabout Rialto Barbary Bush Sandy Hatch Little Celt Bluemont Caveat Emptor Miss Star Vigil Wilderness Tall Timber Silk Tassel King Solomons Seal Picketer Flagstaff Battersea Purity and Shuffle Along AlongThe The liberal program for twoyearolds topped by the Youthful Stakes of 7000 filled well with the Colorado of fiGOO and the Rosedale of 5COO the latter for fillies exclusively attracting the attention of horse ¬ men in a manner that must have been grati ¬ fying to the management For the former the best colts and fillies have been named with the Whitney Madden and Rancocas stables taking the lead The nominations of the former include sons and daughters of Broomstick Johren AVhisk Broom II Thun ¬ derer and other Brookdale sires from such great mares as Regret Inaugural and Lady Hamburg 11 11The The Madden juveniles are by Huon Span ¬ ish Prince II Sir Martin Omar Khayyam Dick Finncll and Frizzle Those that will carry the Rancocas colors are by The Finn Fair Play Peter Pan Ormondale Rickety Ballot Theo Cook and Hourless Included are brothers to Mad Hatter and Purchase PurchaseOther Other generous patrons of the twoyear old stakes at Jamaica are August Belmont Oak Ridge Stable Joseph Widener Green Continucd on twelfth page Continued from first page rmraTbI f Salm ° Sallf0rd Sfd Sfd1arms 1arms J b Cosden and the Quincy Stable Mr Belmonts entries are by Fair 11iy Hourless and Ormondale and most of them are damsThe from Rock Sand dams The Oak Ridge contingent includes colts by Peter Pan McGee Omar Khayyam and Sweep while those named by Mr Widener arc by Mont dOr II Sweeper II and Ballot The Greentree juveniles are by Omar Khay ¬ yam Ultimus Jim Gaffney and Dominant Jr Salmons lot are by the English horses Golden Sun and SoninLaw and the Ameri ¬ can sire Jim Gaffney GaffneyThose Those that will bear the colors of Mr Sanford are by Ultimus and George Smith Mr Cosdens lot includes the 19000 Trap Rock Federal Girl colt and juveniles by Omar Khayyam Wrack Sea King and Jim Gaffney Those that have been named by the Quincy Stable are by Omar Khayyam Wrack and The Finn President Wilson of the Saratoga Association names two of Olam bala with three from the Binghamton Stud by Sun Briar BriarThe The flags will be flying at Jamaica in little more than six weeks The period be ¬ tween now and then will be a busy one for the experts in charge of the various stables The interim will also give racing enthusiasts a chance to discuss their favorites whose trials will be more or less public There is no pleasanter morning recreation than a visit to one of the local courses to see the thoroughbreds at work in preparation for the spring 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