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MARYLAND JOCKEYCLUB BIDS FORTHE BEST HORSES PIMLICOS RICH STAKES Twelve Stellar Attractions With Added Value of 07,500. Preakness With Probable Gross of 0,000 Heads Array Dixie With 0,000 Next in Value. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 20. The policy of a "stake-a-day" will prevail again next spring at Pimlico it was revealed today when the twelve stakes for the twelve-day meeting will be released by the Maryland Jockey Club. The dozen features will have a total added value of 07,500 with the 0,000 added value of the Preakness topping the list," although it is expected to gross approximately 0,000. Second in importance is the Dixie Handicap with 0,000 in added money to be decided on Wednesday, May 10. The Dixie is the most important handicap event decided annually in Maryland and is for three-year-olds and upward. The Pimlico Oaks, for three-year-old fillies, has been increased from ,500 to 0,000 and will feature the first Saturdays racing. This has been made a weight-forage event at a mile and a sixteenth. The only other change in the stakes schedule as contemplated with last spring is an increase in the Jennings Handicap from ,500 to .5,000 and will be decided on the first day of Preakness week. REVIVE STEEPLECHASE. The Green Spring Valley Steeplechase Handicap, a revival of an old stake feature at Pimlico, will carry ,500 in added money and will be decided on Friday, May 5. It will be recalled that last spring the jumping races were temporarily abandoned, due to the removal of the infield hump, but was revived again last November over a course pronounced by experts as one of the finest in the country. The complete list of stakes follows: May 1. Baltimore Spring Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward; ,500 added. Six furlongs. May 2. Rennert Handicap, 3-year-olds; ,500 added. Six furlongs. May 3. Gittings Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward; ,500 added. One and One-Sixteenth Miles. May 4. Masqueraders Stakes, 2-year-olds; ,500 added, Allowances. Four and one-half furlongs. May 5. Green Spring Valley Steeplechase Handicap, 4-year-olds and upward; ,500 added. Two miles. May 6. Pimlico Oaks, 3-year-olds, fillies; 0,000 added. One and one-sixteenth miles. May 8. Jennings Handicap, 3-year-olds; ,000 added. Six furlongs. May 9. Survivor Stakes, 3year-olds; ,500 added. One and one-sixteenth miles. May 10. Dixie Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward; 0,000 added. One and three-sixteenth miles. May 11. Carroll Handicap. 3-year-olds and upward: ,500 added. Six furlongs. May 12. Pimlicc Nursery, 2-year-olds; ,000 added. Five furlongs. May 13. The Preakness, 3-year-olds; 0,000 added. One and three-sixteenth miles. OFFER OVER 00,000. The total amount of money to be offered in the twelve-day spring season at Pimlico will be 02,200. This provides for seven flat races and one steeplechase each day. Racing secretary Charles J. McLennan was authorized to use his discretion in the schedule of Continued on fifteenth page. MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB BIDS FOR THE BEST HORSES Continued from first page.J o . ernight secondary feature races, including graded handicaps. These, in many instances will carry purses of ,200 to ,500. The weights for the Dixie Handicap will be announced on March 15 and it is expected that the outstandinj handicap horses of the year will be named and also the foremost contenders for the honors in the two rich winter handicaps the Santa Anita Handicap and the Widener Challenge Cup, both to be decided on March 4. The continuation of the "stake a day" policy was not surprising, as the Maryland Jockey Club has experienced considerable success with the plan although a coughing epidemic tended to detract from a most promising schedule of daily stakes features last spring. It is believed that the late closing date for nominations will obviate the possibility of small fields going postward next spring. Nomination blanks for the Dixie Handicap and the Pimlico Oaks will be distributed early in January and the blanks for the nine other events will be available in February.
