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HIALEAH GRADED HANDICAPS Specials to Be Run on Each Wednesday of Meeting. Initial Condition Book Contains Conditions for First Sixteen Days Eight Races Daily. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 28. Graded Handicaps will play an important part in Hialeahs racing program January 11 to March 4 the first issue of racing secretary Charles J. McLennans condition book reveals. Special graded handicaps will be scheduled each Wednesday during the meeting. These will close on the Saturday preceding the running. The total number of entries received will be divided into three divisions, according to handicapper McLennans opinion, each division not necessarily having the-same number. The respective divisions will be posted at noon each Monday. Weights and declarations are scheduled by 10 a. m. on the Tuesday before the running. Horses not declared out by 10 a. m. will be considered starters. The schedule drawn up for graded handicaps is as follows: January 18 Six furlongs. January 25 Six and one-half furlongs. February 1 Seven furlongs. February 8 One mile and a furlong. February 15 Six and one-half furlongs. February 22 Seven furlongs. March 1 One mile and a furlong. The initial issue of the Hialeah condition book, released to horsemen cn Christmas Day, is for the first sixteen days of the meeting. The ,000 added Hialeah Park Inaugural, at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and upward, will feature the opening program on Wednesday, January 11. Nominations for this stake will close January 4. Eight races will make up the daily program. Post time for the first race is 2 p. m. Entries will close daily at 10:30 a. m., and scratch time is 8:30 a. m. Jockeys must be named at the time of entry. Racing on the turf course, which has become a popular fad with Hialeah patrons, will be given greater zest this season, for president Joseph E. Widener of the Miami Jockey Club not only has decreed one event a day over the grass, but he has announced a 5,000 stake the Miami Beach Handicap to attract the better class of horses for this type of sport. A race a day also is scheduled for two-year-olds. The Wednesday "Helpful Purse" feature again will prevail. Proceeds from this race will be divided, 75 per cent going to the annual Charity Day fund, and 25 per cent to the Horsemens Welfare fund.
