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TWO STAKE FEATURES • Maryland Jockey Club Offers Fine Inaugural Program. ♦ Pimlico Nursery and Green Spring" Valley Steeplechase the Initial Attractions. ♦ BALTIMORH. Md.. April .10. The Maryland Jockey Club, the oldest and foremost of racing organizations in this state, will inaugurate its spring meeting at the historic-old bimlico course tomorrow. A glance at the entries for the stakes to be decided during the eleven-day meeting, from May 1 to 13 inclusive, augurs well for some of the best racing witnessed in this state this year. Including the Bimlico Nursery, which closed List Septemher, and the Dixie, which closed January 2, there are eleven fixtures on the program, one for each day of the meeting, and they received a total of Ml entries and are classified as follows in the order in which they will be run: May 1 Iimlieo Nursery $ 5.000 added May 1 Jreen Spring Valley Steeple chase r .000 add.-. I May 3 — Dixie Handicap TandM9 added May 4 Jennings Handicap C..00O added May 4 Iimlieo Oaks MM added May "i Spring Handicap IJSJ added May • Home tired Stakes •_,.."i Mt added May T ltcnnert Handicap ."i.OOO added May 10 PreakssMS Stakes 5IMMMI added May II Incentive Stakes B.0M added May 12 — Juvenile Stakes ."..MK1 added May 12 ltowlini; brook gjMg add. d The Bimlico Nursery for two-year-olds and the Greea Spring Aalley Steeplechase are offered as attractions for the opening d.i * program. Bach of these stakes has ,000 added. The Merchants Handicap; a dash of a mile and seventy yards, is an additional feature. The fields, while not large, have I brought together well matched horses and j the prospects for keen sport look exceedingly bright. Kverything is in readiness for the j opening and the course never looked prettier than it does this spring. SOCIETY TO BK UPMBMHUMi A large number of society folks are looked for from New York, Philadelphia. Washing- j ton and other adjacent cities. Parties are ;ilso coming from Cleveland. Boston. Buffalo and as far west as Chicago and the meeting j will be not only an important one in a racing j way but socially as well. Out of town I patrons who have reserved boxes are : i Kdward F. Whitney, Samuel D. Riddle. Com. 1.1. K. L. Ross. Walter J. Salmon. Adm. Cary |T. Grayson. Walter M. Jeffords, George Loft. [Joseph F. Davis. Kdward R. Bradley. William j Woodward, J. W. Biddle, Samuel L. Hildreth and Harry Disston. Among those who will I give dinner parties in the clubhouse are William Woodward, Miss Sarah Baldwin. A. H. Morris, Mrs. Thomas Cottman and R. J. Waldon. There are six named to go in the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, two of which. St. Pancras and Barleycorn are coupled as the J. F. Widener entry. The topweights are Lpsal at 157 and Labrador at 155. Dunks Green will carry the Salmon colors in the race. Ten are named in the Pimlico Nursery. Northland and Murzim are the Salmon entry ;and Long Joe and Gold Coin the Sagamore i Stable entry. Commander lioss has named his good colt landlord in this stake and if he can trim Red Rocket he will be hard to beat in future juvenile contests. The time set for the first race is 2 :30. Mm AM IKKVKM.SS. The Dixie and the Preakness entries have already been made public, and these stakes 1 will unquestionably be among the outstanding events of the year, not only by reason of their value and prestige, but because they have attracted the best horses in training. The other stakes also are eagerly sought after, and all the prominent owners are numbered among the nominators with the pick of their stables. In the two-year-old e,nts are Dr. W. F. Johnstons Miraf.l. tin brother of Sarazi-n . J. Kdwin Griffiths Amble, a half-sister of Single loot and Canter, and said to he worthy of her distinguished relatives: the speedy but badly named Chsh Steak; a Ml hatch of Man © Wars colts and fillies: locally owned youngsters in the strings of II. G. Bedwell. Belair Stud. A. H. Morris. Sag- , aniore Stable, Hal Barr, the western wonder Polante. and others. The handicai*:, such as the Spring, Dixie. Jennings and Rennert. have attracted such notable racers as Sarazen, Canter. Single Foot. American Flag. Big Blaze. Senator Norris, Brince of Bourbon, Joy Smoke. My Own, Benstick, and King Solomons Seal. In . , _ tontinucd on sixteenth r!,6e TWO STAKE FEATURES Continued from first page fact, horses that are on every ones tongue-, while the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, one of the most important cross country events of the year, yill bring out all the tried performers as well as some of those that have been recently imported, and will make their first public appearance on this side of the water. These newcomers include the Fair Stables high el-iss racer Nicholas, that was such a disappointment on the flat, and will now have a chance to show what he can do between the flags ; Greentree Stables Krne II., by White Ragle ; Gen. Post and Brantome ; Swickley Stables Father Tom and Honey de Luxe: Thomas Hitchcocks Lipingo : W. A. Reads Sea Ballad, Noce d" Argent and Gas per; besides the tried and true jumpers, J. K. Davis Relentless; F. M. Algers Bernard ; I.. If. Congers ls!s; Marshall Fields Labrador; Glen Piddle Farms Brigadier General; Brookmeade Stables P.oatman and Soot: Bayard Tuckermans l.e Vignemale : B. Warrens ITpaal : Winburn Stables Sand Rock ; .1. E Wideners Ethereal Rlue, Lizard and MacCarthy More. It is interesting to note that the popular Harry Payne Whitney stable has made two nominations to the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase in Heckler and Handsome, both by Whisk Broom II.. and every one will wish them luck in their new field. The- Pimlie o Oaks will have its eighth renewal this spring, and among the nominations are- W. B. Coes speedy Black Maria, which will try to duplicate the feat of Cleopatra, Pompe-ys dam, in 1020, when she-lauded the stake in the same colors. Other entrie-s are- Audley Farms Dawn o Virginia: Foxcate-hcr Farms Triste de Coeur ; Clen Bidelle- Farms Taps and Corvette : K. I-:. Hitts neatly named First Aid, out of Red Cross Girl, by Negofol : Count Fal de Saint Phalles French-bred Liana and Bonde; H. IV Whitneys Rapture and Flyleaf; A. H. Morris Ensile; Sagamore Stables La Ferte ; and W. J. Salmons Oavotte. The- Maryland Jockey Club has every reason to be- proud of the libe-ral response of owners to its generous offerings, ancl the sH rt should bring out an immense attendance at the old Hilltop track.
