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DETROIT STAKES ARRAY Ten Feature Events Are Headed by Detroit Derby and Challenge Cup. Each of These Races Has 5,000 Added Other Valuable Fixtures and Overnight Handicaps. i ARLINGTON, Texas, April 10 Stake blanks for the spring meeting of the Detroit Racing Association, which commences Thursday, May 23, were received here today. Ten stakes, topped by the second running of the 5,000 added Detroit Derby, and the 5,000 added Detroit Challenge Cup, will be offered during the thirty-nine days of racing which will close Saturday, July 6. The stakes offered are the Wolverine Handicap, Colonel Alger Memorial Handicap, Saint Clair Stakes, Belle Isle Handicap, Woodward Stakes, Pontchartrain Handicap, Liberty Handicap, and the Detroit Juvenile Stakes. The Ponchartrain Handicap will be run the Saturday preceding the Detroit Challenge Cup, and it should serve as a preparation for the latter event. Judge Joseph A. Murphy, who again will serve as director of racing at Detroit, stated today that many of the leading stables now campaigning at Arlington Downs had made stall reservations for the Detroit season. He and several members of the staff here who will serve with him during the Motor City season, are receiving nominations for the Derby. The nominations close Monday, May 13, with the exception of the Challenge Cup nominations, which close twelve days before its running. The other stakes remain open until several days before their decisions. Continued on eleventh page. DETROIT STAKES ARRAY Continued from first page. The following is. the complete list of Detroit Stakes: Wolverine Handicap, May 25, for three-year-olds and over, at one and one-sixteenth miles; ,500 added. Colonel Alger Memorial Handicap, May 30, for three-year-olds and over, at one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 added. St. Clair Stakes, June 1, for two-year-olds, at five furlongs; ,000 added. Belle Isle Handicap, June 8, for three-year-olds and over, at six furlongs; ,500 added. Detroti Derby, June 15, for three-year-olds, at one and three-sixteenth miles; 5,000 added. Woodward Stakes, June 19, for two-year-olds, at five furlongs; ,000 added. Ponchartrain Handicap, June 22, for three-year-olds and over, at one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 added. Detroit Challenge Cup, June 29, for three-year-olds and over, at one and three-sixteenth miles; 5,000 added. Liberty Handicap, July 4, for three-year-olds and over, at one and one-sixteenth miles; ,000 added. Detroit Juvenile Stakes, July 6, for two-year-olds, at five furlongs; ,000 added. The overnight handicaps to be run during the spring meeting follow: Detroit Inaugural, Thursday, May 23, for three-year-olds and over, at six furlongs; ,500 added. City of Straits Handicap, Saturday, June 1, for three-year-olds and over, at six furlongs; ,500 added. Selfridge Field - Handicap, Wednesday, June 5, for three-year-olds, at six furlongs; ,500 added. Univertity of Michigan Handicap,. Wednesday, June 12, for three-year-olds, at one mile; ,500 added. University of Detroit Handicap, Wednesr day, June 26, for three-year-olds and over, at six furlongs; ,500 added. Michigan State College Handicap, Saturday, July 6, for three-year-olds and over, at one and one-sixteenth miles; ,500 added.
