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RACELAND STAKE OFFERING LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 28.— Nomination blanks for tha four stakes to be run during the coining 1 trie. land meeting of sixteen days which opens July 4, were received here today. The moat valuable of the four features is the renewal of the Raceland Derby, of ,500 added. This stake of annual running since the opening of the course, is for three-year-olds and is decided over the one mile and a quarter distance. It will be offered on Saturday, July 14. Other stakes are the ,000 added Independence Handicap, at seven-eighths, for three-year-olds and over ; the ,000 added Ashland Handicap, at one • mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over, and the ,000 added Irontonian Stakes, for two-vear-olds, at five and one-half furlongs. Nominations will be closed on Monday, June 4.
