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FAIRMOUNT PARK STAKES » « Generous Response of Entries to .. ! Collinsville Feature Races. b * bi th I.eadintr Thi«C •Twr.pMl of Country Among Nominations for 335 000 Fairmount I»erhy, . Outstanding Mlraotion of Meeting. ♦ s« in COLLINSVILLE. 111.. March HI— That the a most promia -in racing establishments in to America will be represented by their best to horses at the spring meeting of the Fair-mount Jockey Club, is indicated by the unusual list of nominators for the stake events, ei the entries for which closed yesterday. The t list of horses nominated for the rich contests will be compiled under the direction of t J. B. Campbell, racing secretary, and publicly announced later. In the lairmount Derby, the 5,000 feature event of the meeting, which opens May 26 and continues to include July 7, the leading j, three-year-olds of America have been named, g according to C. Bruce Head, general man- i; ager of Fairmount Park. The early entries. 11 for the Derby included Mrs. John Hertz 1] Reigh Count. Polk Laffoons Republic. J. R. Jj Haeocnbers Petee-Wrack, C. E. Durnells y Irish Pal. Pantages Stables Alexander Pan- jj tages and Shasta Nut. Benjamin Blocks Mor- dear, Three Ds Stables Stamford, Phil 1! Reuters C.alahad. B. B. Jones Sister Ship. C. 1] W. Moores lieutenant Mansfield, Viking *! Stables Lawley. Idle Hour Farms Beelzebub, ! Kenton Farm Stables Typhoon, Val Cranes v Charmarten and others. Additional entries u for the lairmount Derby were being received l in every mail yesterday. With these and the number in the mail, which will be received in the next few days, according to = Mr. Head, will bring the total number of nominations to a figure comparative with the total Fairmount Derby nominations in pre- * vious years and will include every good 1 »erby prospect that will race in the Middle West this year. i COM INSVII.I.E HANDICAP. Nominations for the Collinsville Handicap, the Hotel Statler Handicap and the Hotel Jefferson Handicap, each of which carry ,000 in added money, include many of the leading stake horses now being conditioned for the seasons racing. Represented among the nominees for these events are the horses Kdisto. Rolls Royce and Soiree, from the stables of the well-known Canadian sports- • man W. B. Seagram ; Dowagiac, Peter Hast- 1 ings. Tyrol and Hawkshaw. from Frank J. , Navins Bloomfield Stable. Other prominent owners who have made nominations in the stakes and otherwise indicated their inten- • tions to race at Fairmount Paik this spring j include Senator Johnson N. Camden, George ; Collins, J. B. Respess and other leading Kentucky owners; H. G. Badwell of Maryland: , the Belair Stable and Robert L. Gerry of New York ; R. C. Thatchers Pueblo Stable of Colorado: C. Crnffagnini of New Orleans, and Benjamin A. Jones of Nodaway County, . Mo., and H. OMalley of Sigel. 111., have named Step Along in the aged stake events. and Stephen H. Velie of Kansas City, has named Blue Daisy, by Imported Assagai — Blue Cay. in the Illinois Stake of $".000, for , two-year-old fillies. Senator M. E. Casey, also of Kansas City, has named Heart of America, by imported Assagai — Mint DOr, in the Valley Stakes of ,000, for two-year-old colts and geldings. JIVI-MM. STAKES. In the Juvenile Stakes the entries include the high-priced youngsters that have brought the Three Ps Stable into prominence. Eleven two-year-olds have been named in the Valley Stakes by trainer C. E. Durnell and these I acinic War Time, by Man o War — Penrose, one of the highest priced colts sold in recent years. The board of governors, in charge of the club features of the Fairmount Jockey Club, yesterday mailed invitations to a selected list of names of prominent men of St. Louis and vicinity to become members of and partake of the advantages of the Fairmount Park club house. Club membership entitles the mem-l ers to club house and track admissions for themselves ar.d lady guests for every afternoon of the spring meeting and are confined to those to whom invitations are extended. . Club house and grandstand boxes are now being reserved, with preference being given former box holders, according to Lyman T. H.iv, president of the Fairmount Jockey Club.
