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. 4 3 R AMpRY HASKELL — Monmouth Park president, announced the stake program for the 1953 spring session. Monmouth Increases Value of Stakes Oaks to Be Upped To 0,000 Added Eighteen Events Will Total 75,000, Boost of 0,000 Over Worth of Last Season OCEANPORT, N. J., May 5.— The richest stakes schedule in Monmouth Park history was announced today by Amory L. Haskell, president of the New Jersey race course. During the 50 days of the June 13-August 10 season a total of 75,000 in added money will be distributed in 18 stakes, a substantial increase above last years 05,000 dispersal. Headlining the new schedule is the Monmouth Oaks for three-year-old fillies, up from 0,000 a year ago to a new standard of 0,000. Under this endowment the Oaks becomes the richest race ever scheduled at Monmouth Park, and attractive to the leading members of the sex and age group in training. The distance also has been advanced a sixteenth-mile to a mile and a furlong, a sterner test for sophomore fillies. It will be run on August 8, final Saturday of the summer meeting. Both the Monmouth Handicap for older horses at a mile and a quarter and the Sapling Stakes for two-year -olds at six furlongs are valued this year at 0,000, a ,000 hike over the 1952 season. The former always has proved a strong magnet for stakes stars along the eastern seaboard, its winning lineup listing such modern names as Lucky Draw, Round View, Tide Rips, Three Rings, Greek Ship, Arise and One Hitter. The Sapling Stakes, always one of the most keenly contested events of the racing year and a major rung on the juvenile ladder, was run in two divisions a year ago, Laffango and Deadlocked becoming twin winners. Like the Monmouth, it is a carry-over from old Monmouth Park days. Choice Distance Is Changed Another interesting change in the stakes line-up finds the Choice Stakes, for three-year-olds, retaining its usual 5,000 value but dropping in distance to a mile and one-eighth, a furlong shorter than previous runnings. It is expected to draw larger fields under its new route. Fillies and mares, always well treated in Monmouth Parks stakes distribution, reap an even richer reward this year with four races for the sex tilted ,000 over previous runnings. They include the Molly Pitcher at a mile and a sixteenth, at 5,000, and the Colleen Stakes for two-year-olds, the Miss Woodford, three-year-olds and the Regret, three-year-olds and upward, all new at 0,000. The six-furlongs of the Miss Woodford will be run on July 29, 10 days prior to the 0,000 Monmouth Oaks, and it becomes a natural stepping stone to these longer and richer honors. Nominations to the 1953 Monmouth Park stakes schedule are to close on June 1. The complete lineup of events follows: June 13 — Oceanport Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. June 17 — Omnibus Handicap, 5,000; three-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. June 20 — Regret Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, six furlongs. June 24 — Longfellow Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, one mile, turf. June 27 — Molly Pitcher Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, 1 1-16 miles. July 1 — Select Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds, six furlongs. July 4 — Colleen Stakes, 0,000, two-year-olds, fillies, five and a half furlongs. July 8 — New Jersey Futurity, 0,000, two-year-olds, foaled in New Jersey, five and one-half furlongs. July 11 — Lamplighter Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds, one and one-sixteenth miles. July 15 — Salvator Mile, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, one mile. July 18— Tyro Stakes, 5,000, two-year-olds, colts and geldings, six furlongs. July 22— Rumson Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. July 25 — Monmouth Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds and upward, one and one -quarter miles. July 29— Miss Woodford, 0,000, three-year-olds, fillies, six furlongs. August 1 — Choice Stakes, 5,000, three-year-olds, one and one-eighth miles. August 5 — Long Branch Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. August 8 — Monmouth Oaks. 0,000, three-year-olds, fillies, one and one-eighth miles. August 10 — Sapling Stakes. 0,000, two-year-olds, six furlongs.
