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STAKE CLOSING ON JANUARY 2 Weights for Agua Caliente Handicap Published January-! 4 . 0,000 Added Race Feature of Coming Meeting Derby Distance Remains Same Illinois Rules to Prevail. AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Oct. 17. dominations for the Agua Caliente Handicap, 0,000 added, scheduled for March 26, 1933, will close January 2. Weights appear January 14. Judge C. J. FitzGerald today made announcement of the conditions prevailing for the major winter stakes. These differ slightly from those applying in recent years. Judge Martin Nathanson, associate steward and handicapper, made the revisions. A fee of 00 to nominate and 500 to atart goes to swell the purse, which will approximate 0,000 to the winner, it is believed. The second horse receives ,000, ,500 goes to the third and ,500 to the fourth. Upon the total number of entries, and starters depends the gross figure. A penalty appears in the conditions. Winners after the publication of weights are affected. Winners of two races of ,000 or one race of ,500 must carry four pounds extra. This will affect horses which may race in Florida, Cuba and New Orleans before shipping to the coast. The Agua Caliente Futurity also closes its nominations January 2, while other stakes on the program are. treated in a different manner, with their closing dates coming ten and fifteen days before the running of the race. The Agua Caliente Derby distance remains at a mile and one-sixteenth. The management considered altering it to the full distance, but, owing to the early date upon which it is decided, no change was made. The Futurity distance, formerly five furlongs, is now four and a half furlongs. Many of the leading horses campaigning ,on eastern tracks are expected to be placed in nomination for the Agua Caliente Handicap, Judge FitzGerald also announced the adoption of the racing rules of the Illinois Turf Association for Agua Caliente. In years past the Agua Caliente Jockey Club has raced without rules. The stake book for the meeting appeared today and was distributed at various racing centers, East and West.
