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] 1 ■ . ■V " w 5and?UU ■■ -«Bs»Ul ■hVjH ■■■■ IBbubuuubuuBHbuHbuH i I ■BbuubbbuuuuuuuuHbbuuuuuuI i EUGENE MORI— President of the Garden State Racing Association, operators of Garden State Park. , Garden State Park Cards Ten Stakes Three 0,000 ] Added Fixtures Trenton, Jersey, Vineland Handicaps to Carry Above Value — Blanks Available CAMDEN, N. J., May 9.— Ten handsomely endowed stakes will feature the forty-nine day inaugural meeting at Garden State Park at Camden, Charles J. McLennan, secretary of the New Jersey track, announced today. The closing date for making nominations to these events is July 1. With nine Saturdays and Labor Day as ideal dates to present these stakes, McLennan offers three events, each carrying 0,000 in added money and seven with 1 ,000 added money. The three principal races are the 0,000 added Trenton Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a furlong, ■ on Saturday, August 29; the 0,000 added . Jersey Handicap, for three-year-olds, at a mile and a furlong, on Labor Day, September 7, and the 0,000 added Vineland Handicap, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a sixteenth, on closing day, September 12. There will be two stakes for two-year-olds, the ,000 added William Penn Stakes i on August 8, and the Walt Whitman Stakes on August 22. Both are at six furlongs. The filly and mare division is given consideration in the ,000 added Colonial Handicap, at six furlongs on Saturday, September 5, and the 0,000 Vineland, which concludes the program. The base upon which this stake program is to be laid will be a daily purse distribution calling for a ,000 minimum and not less than ,000 per day for eight races. Inaugural Day Feature Opening the first meeting to be conducted under the New Jersey mutuel law passed several years ago will be the ,000 I added Camden Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at six furlongs, on Saturday, July 18. Secretary McLennan and his staff are ; now distributing stakes blanks to horsemen I I | and breeders throughout the country and I j these are to be mailed to the Garden State I I j Racing Association, P. O. box 311, Cam-; I den, N. J. Following is the full list of stakes for the 1 1 forty-nine-day meeting: I July 18— ,000 Camden Handicap, for; . I three-year-olds and upward, at six fur- J | longs. I July 25 — ,000 Benjamin Franklin Han- j | dicap, for three-year-olds, at six furlongs. August 1 — ,000 Quaker City Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at one mile and a sixteenth. August 8 — ,000 William Penn Stakes, for two-year-olds, at six furlongs. j August 15— ,000 Valley Forge Handi- j cap, for three-year-olds and upward, at si* furlongs. August 22— ,000 Walt Whitman Stakes, for two-year-olds, at six furlongs. August 29— 0,000 Trenton Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at one i mile and a furlong. September 5 — ,000 Colonial Handicap, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, at six furlongs. September 7 — 0,000 Jersey Handicap, for three-year-olds, at one mile and a fur- I long. September 12— 0,000 Vineland Handi- I cap, for fillies and mares three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a sixteenth.
