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Seabiscuit Handicap Added To Del Mar Stake Roster DEL MAR, Calif., May 22. Announcement was made today by the board of directors of the Del Mar Turf Club of the scheduling of a Seabiscuit Handicap for the seaside courses eighth annual summer meeting, which opens August 5 and runs to September 20. The stake, which will honor the memory of the gallant western turf champion, who passed away last Saturday, will be run Saturday, September 6. As a further reverence of the Biscuits memory, the race will be over the mile and an eighth route the distance for which Charles S. Howards famous stallion holds the Del Mar track record of 1:49. Seabiscuit set this mark in defeating Ligaroti here in a memorable match race in 1938.
