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COMPILING STAKE ELIGIBLES McLennan Busy With List of Hia-leah Park Stake Nominees. Racing Secretary Also at Work on First Condition Book Helpful Purse Every Wednesday. MIAMI, Fla., Nov." 24 With the arrival of Charles J. McLennan, racing secretary and handicapper for the Miami Jockey Club, an official checkup will be made within a few days of the nominations for four of Hialeah Parks eleven stake races. McLennan is waiting for late mail before making a compilation of the entries for press distribution. McLennan arrived at Hialeah Saturday, after a motor trip from Maryland, where he acted in the capacity of racing secretary and handicapper at the Pimlico track. McLennan serves in a like position at Havre de Grace; Arlington Park and Washington Park in Illinois, Keeneland in Kentucky, Delaware Park in Delaware and Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts, totalling eight tracks in all. Nominations for the 0,000 Widener Challenge Cup for three-year-olds and up, at a mile and one-quarter; the 0,000 added Flamingo Stakes, for three-year-olds, at a mile and one furlong; and the ,000 added Seminole Stakes, for two-year-old colts and geldings at three furlongs and the ,000 added Everglades Stakes for two-year-old fillies at three furlongs, closed on November 15. These are now being whipped into shape for publication. According to McLennan, each stake promises to draw a splendid field. The Seminole and the Everglades formerly were run as Nursery Stakes No. 1 and No. 2. Seven other stakes, namely the Hialeah Inaugural, Hialeah Stakes, Miami Beach Handicap, Bahamas Handicap, McLennan Memorial, Hialeah Juvenile Championship and Miami Jockey Club Dinner Stakes will close during the meeting just prior to their running. McLennan is preparing the first issue of the condition book, which will be released about Christmas. "Following out the wishes of Joseph E. Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club, to encourage racing over a distance of Continued on twenty-sixth page. COMPILING STAKE ELIGIBLES Continued from first page. ground," McLennan said, "we plan to schedule a route event of a mile and one-half or longer every other day during the Hialeah meeting which will run from January 11 to March 4. Of course, trainers will have added inducements to prepare for such races. Under our schedule, 0 will be awarded to the trainer saddling the winner of a race at a mile and three-sixteenths; 00 at a mile and one-quarter; 50 at a mile and three furlongs and 00 at a mile and a half or longer." Racing on the turf which has proven a popular sport with Hialeah patrons, also will be given considerable attention, for it is the plan of McLennan to list a turf race daily. Such racing will attract the higher grade of thoroughbred this season by reason of a ,000 added stake the Miami Beach Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth. Another weekly feature to be renewed in the condition book is the Helpful Purse, scheduled every Wednesday, in which seventy-five per cent of the Miami Jockey Clubs share of the mutuel handle will go into the Charity Day Fund, and the other twenty-five per cent to the Horsemens Welfare Fund. i ; 1 1 t l - 1 ;
