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Plan First MJC Dinner Purse At Pimlico, Monday, May 18 PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 5.— Louis Pondfield, executive director of the Maryland Jockey Club, today announced the details for the first running of the Maryland Jockey Club Dinner Purse, scheduled for Monday, May 18, the first day of Preakness week at Pimlico. The Dinner Purse will be a dash of five furlongs for two-year-olds and subscribers to the affair will be permitted to lease a horse for the day and have it carry their name on the program. Under the plan devised by Pondfield for this race, subscriptions will amount to 5 and out of that sum, the subscriber will receive four tickets to a dinner to be held in the members clubhouse in the evening following the race. A small portion of the subscription will be used to provide a suitable trophy for the winning owner and whatever is left from the entire sum will be contributed to the Cancer Fund. Pondfield expects to have about 75 subscribers to the new event on the Pimlico program, which would mean that the dinner will be an affair for around 300 persons. Conditions of the race call for two-year-olds which were maidens at the time the Maryland spring season opened on March 27. If the response to the dinner is as heavy as the management believes is likely, there is a possibility that the event may be run in two divisions, one for colts and gelding and the other for fillies. The idea of the subscriptions to the race and permitting subscribers to have horses run in their name, is to create interest In the thoroughbred sport in a group which does not normally possess the enthusiasm of those who race horses constantly.
