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ATTRACTIVE CARD AT JAMAICA Stuyvesant Handicap and Rosedale Purse Saturdays Main Events. Stuyvesant With Ten Starters Will Gross 5,400 El Chico and Johnstown Improbable Starters. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 20. The card at Jamaica next Saturday will be marked by two stakes, the Rosedale, for two-year-old fillies, and the Stuyvesant, a handicap for three-year-olds, the latter being a preliminary for the Wood Memorial to be run the following Saturday. The distance of the Rosedale is five furlongs. With ten starters it will gross ,275 and net the winner ,325. Among the fifty-one eligibles is the stake winner Fairy Chant, the four-time winner Ida Rogers, the double-winner, Ranchos Girl, Pilot Biscuit, a winner at the meeting, and the highly considered Valkara, Requip, Donnagina, Spanked, Thorn Apple, Blue Gypsy, Swans Choice and Kingdom Come. Fir3t run in 1903 and won by W. H. Leeds Julia M., trained by Tom Healey, winners of this stake included many high class fillies such as Frizette, Trance, Yankee Witch, Enfilade, Prudery, Outline, Princess Tina, Erin, Swivel, Goldey F., Inhale, and Double Back. The Stuyvesant Handicap, six furlongs, with ten starters, will gross ,400 and net the winner ,075. This race was first run in 1916 and won by A. B. Stelles Fern Rock. Several horses of the highest class won renewals of this stake, notably Man o War, Purchase and Ordinance, as well as Motor Cop, Snob II., and Merry Lassie. PROSPECTIVE FIELD. Indications are now the field will come from among the following: Horse. Wt Horse. Wt Lovely Night.... 116 One by One 105 Sea Captain 112 Pontius 102 Thellusson 106 Entracte 114 Johns Heir 105 Star Runner 109 Counterpoise ....102 Equilibrium 105 T. M. Dorsett....ll6 Book Plate 105 Highscope 110 Our Mat 112 Early Morn 105 Johnstown 129, and El Chico 126, are eligible but doubtful starters. Other possibilities include Donita M. 112, Tiberius 109, and Neuf 106. The program will be rounded out with four other contests. The first race, the Bay Ville, five furlongs, is for two-year-old maiden colts and geldings. This is followed by the Flushing, a condition race for three-year-olds, six furlongs. The third race is the Laurelton, a handicap at a mile and a sixteenth for class "C" horses. The two stakes are next in order and the days sport concludes with The Parole, a handicap for three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a sixteenth, ,500 added.
