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PREPARING FOR BAINBRIDGE Attractive Stakes List Again Topped by the Ohio State Derby, 0,000 Added. . NEW ORLEANS, La., March 14. The usual high class program for the spring meeting at Bainbridge Park has been decided upon by the Bainbridge Breeders and Racing Association, of which Thomas Mc-Ginty is general manager and Joseph Cat-tarinich, managing director. For the meeting of thirty-one days, opening Saturday, May 21, and closing on Saturday, June 25, the eighth running of the Ohio State Derby for three-year-olds and with 0,000 added, will be the principal feature. Other events on the program of stakes include the Bainbridge Inaugural Handicap, Cleveland News Handicap, Decoration Day Handicap, Cleveland Press Handicap, Hunting Valley Stakes and Cleveland Plain-Dealer Handicap. The minimum amount added to the stakes will be ,500. Julius G. Reeder, racing secretary, is closing nominations for the Derby, which will be decided over a mile and one-eighth on Saturday, June 4, and entries for other of the principal features will close three days before the date of running, thereby insuring only active subscriptions. Excepting only the Hunting Valley Stakes, which is given over exclusively to two-year-olds, and the Ohio State Derby, for three-year-olds, other of the headliners are fashioned for three-year-olds and older horses. Secretary Reeder will card a race daily for two-year-olds and one or more daily for three-year-olds. Preparatory or qualifying opportunities for Derby candidates will be offered on May 21 and May 24 and the Derby Trial is definitely scheduled for May 28, one week before the Derby. As in recent years, many of the three-year-olds seen in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, American Derby at Washington Park, Preakness at Pimlico, and in some of the early New York stakes, are expected to invade Bainbridge for the Ohio State Derby. Overnight purses contributed by patrons in the amounts of ,000, 00, 00, 00 and 00, the same as last year, will be offered. Saturday and holiday programs will consist of eight races. Under the public contribution system, the open claiming regulations will be in vogue for the first time during the coming meeting. Many of the stables here will go direct to the Ohio track, while scores of others will move on to Bainbridge after campaigning at Aurora, or in Maryland during April and early May.
