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Garden State Condition Books Due This Week • Covers First Twelve Days of Racing at New Jersey Course CAMDEN, • N. J., June 19. — Conditions for the races of the first 12 days of the Garden State Park meeting have been written into the first edition of the meetings condition book, to be distributed to horsemen early next week, racing secretary Charles J. McLennan announced today. This first condition book covers the eight daily races from opening day, July 7, to July 22, inclusive. During this period three of the twelve stakes at the meeting will be run, including the Camden Handicap on opening day, the Rancocas Stakes on Saturday, July 10, and the Benjamin Franklin Handicap on Saturday, July 17. With the minimum purse set at ,000, the purse scale is identical with last years opening week. In 1942 the purse scale was steadily advanced by the association as the crowds increased. The opening program on July 7 will be featured by sprinters in the ,000 Camden Handicap, which started T. H. Heard, Jr.s Boysy on his winning parade of three consecutive stake scores at the meeting. The Camden is for three-year-olds and upward at six furlongs. Supporting this sprint will be the ,500 Haddonfield Purse, a test for three-year-olds at a mile and seventy yards. Also on the inaugural program will be two races for juveniles and two claiming events of more than one mile.
