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PRIZES WELL WORTH WINNING Only One More Payment Due for Homewood Stakes. j Washington Park Futurity May Gross 0,000 While Princess Pat May Be Worth 0,000. With the weeding-out process already begun and only one more payment due, a grand total of 220 colts, geldings and fillies are still paid-up and eligible for the inaugural running of the Washington Park Futurity. And likewise a grand total of 147 fillies are still in good standing as regards the Princess Pat, which also will have its first running during the Washington Park Jockey Clubs thirty-day meeting opening May 24 and lasting through June 26. When early nominations closed last fall for the Futurity a count showed 325 yearlings had been named. For the Princess Pat, owners of 197 fillies were willing to take a 0 chance that they had a future champion in the barn. SECONDARY FEES 5. Secondary fees of 5 for the Futurity and 0 for the Princess Pat were due early this year. And, as stated above, owners of 220 Futurity candidates and 147 Princess Pat hopefuls refused to be bluffed out. One more payment, this one for 0, is due May 15, shortly before the opening of the meeting. All those still eligible after that will be eligible to get out on the track and run for the big two-year-old prizes. That is, providing they come through with the ,000 starting fee. The Princess Pat is scheduled for the third Saturday of the meeting, June 12, with the Futurity on the final day, June 26. The tremendous number of youngsters still eligible makes for the size of the purses, which, counting in the added money put up by the jockey club, will gross some 0,000 for the Futurity and 0,000 for the Princess Pat.
