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PIMLICOS AUTUMN PROGRAM Total of 18,200 in Prizes for Twelve Days of Racing — No Purse Less Than ,300. BALTIMORE, Md., June 3.— At a meeting of the directors of the Maryland Jockey Club here the stake program for the autumn meeting at Pimlico was ratified. Nine fixtures will be renewed, and the following overnight events were approved: Five steeplechases of ,000 each; seventeen flat races of ,500 each, and fifty-three events of ,300 each. A gold cup of ,000 value will be added to the Riggs Handicap, a 5,000 stake, which will be run November 14, and 00 gold cups will be added to Manly Memorial Steeplechase, a 0,000 prize for jumpers, on November 2, and Master of Foxhounds Steeplechase, a ,500 contest, at three miles, for hunters, which will be run November 11. A bronze plaque will be presented to the owner of the winner of the Pimlico Home Bred Stakes, a six furlongs dash for two-year-olds, on November 11. There has been no decrease in stakes values, and one event has been made more valuable. A total of 18,200 will be distributed in stakes and overnight events during the twelve-day meeting, which opens November 2 and closes November 14. The conditions of three stakes have been changed. The Riggs, heretofore a race of one mile and a half for three-year-olds, will will now be open to three-year-olds and upward. The Bowie Handicap, 0,000 added, one mile and a half, which in other years was for three-year-olds and upward, will be renewed next fall for three-year-olds exclusively. The distance of the Baltimore Handicap, an all aged stake, has been increased from one mile and seventy yards to one mile and a furlong, and the added value has been increased from ,500 to ,000. Because of the increased interest in stee-plechasing, the directors authorized the racing secretary to provide one cross country event daily. Entries for all stakes close August 17.
