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I : , , SPECIALS CLOSE APRIL 2 ♦ Belmont Parks New Stakes and Four Chases Worth Winning. • Itace Patterned After Enrnpean Contents— Designated by Numbers Instead of Xanies. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 31.— Nominations to two new specials for flat racers, to l e run at Belmont Park in the course of the spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association, which will begin May 17, to continue through June 9, and four steeplechases will close Monday, April 2. Nominations must be made to the New Fork office of the association at 250 Park Avenue. The two new flat races are to known this spring as Stake Number 1 and Stake Number 2. Perhaps it is inaccurate to say that they will be run this spring, for, in announcing them a fortnight back, Joseph E. Widener reserved the right to declare them off if the nominations did not promise satisfactory results. It is because of this proviso that, for the time being, numbers, rather than distinguishing names, have been given them. Stake Number 1 is set for May 18. It is for three-year-olds i.iat will not have so much as started previous to May 18. The distance will be seven-eighths, the nomination fee 5, the starting fee 00. The Westchester Association will add ,500, of which the second horse will receive 00, and the third 00. Colts and geldings will carry 118 pounds, fillies 113. Stake Number 2 will be a gallop of one mile and a quarter, for four-year-olds exclusively ; 5 to enter, another 00 to start. The added money will be ,500. with 00 to the second horse and 00 to the third. The basic weights will be 122 pounds for colts and geldings, 117 for mares. But winners of 0,000 in 1927 or 1928, or of two rates of ,000 each after April 1, 1928, will be penalized four pounds, while non-winners of ,500 in 1927 or 1928 will be allowed four pounds. Races of the character of these two specials are common on the other side of the Atlantic, but not on this. Hence the tentative nature of the conditions governing them. The steeplechases are the Charles L. Ap-pleton Memorial, 0,000 guaranteed, for four-year-olds and over, at two miles ; the Corinthian and International Handicaps, ,500 added each, at two miles, and the Meadowbrook Handicap. ,500 added, at two miles and a half. The subscription in the Ap-pleton Memorial will be 0. the starting fee 50. In the other three the subscription will be 5, the starting fee 5. Like the Apple-ton Memorial, the Corinthian, International and Meadowbrook Handicaps are for four-year-olds and over. There will be plate, presented by the Greentree Stable, for the wner of the winner of the Appleton Memorial, the weights for which will be fixed by a scheme of penalties and allowances.
