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Distribute Blanks for Twelve Stakes at Monmouth Meeting MeetingMONMOUTH MONMOUTH PARK Oceanport N J May 10 Stake blanks covering Mon ¬ mouth Parks 14stake summer schedule were distributed among horsemen today with nominations for the added money features due to close on June 2 The 42 day session is to gpen June 21 and con ¬ tinue through August 7 six days longer than the successful 1947 meet meetIn In addition to the customary 12 handi ¬ caps which thrilled patrons at the in ¬ augural meetings racing secretary John Turner Jr has this year written another pair of stakes into his schedule The 10000 Salvator Mile is to be decided under allowance conditions on opening day an early prep for the 1948 renewal of the 25000 Monmouth Handicap richest race of the season for threeyearolds andup ward It perpetuates the memory of the famous Salvator an equine great of the gay nineties period who ran a world rec ¬ ord mile down the old Monmouth Park straightaway in 135 The 10000 Select Handicap for three yearolds at six furlongs Is the other added feature in the nature of a preview of eligi bles for the Lamplighter Cap at a mile and a Sixteenth and the mile and a quar ¬ ter of the 25000 Choice Stakes All are restricted to the upandcoming three yearold colony
