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Blackstone Studios, Inc. JOHN B. KELLY — President, Atlantic City Racing Association, announced series of rich turf course stakes for summer meeting. Atlantic City Cards Three Rich Turf Course Stakes Two 5,000 Elimination Tests And 0,000 Championship Listed ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 11.— Turf course racing, growing in popularity every year, will gain further prestige and importance this year at Atlantic City, which today announced that it is carding two 5,000 added elimination events in which starters will carry four pounds below scale, and a 0,000 added championship handicap at its 50-day meeting opening on Tuesday, August 11. The new program, which is counted upon to lure some of the worlds finest grass performers to the resort course, was announced by John B. Kelly, president of the Atlantic City Racing Association. The races will be run over the resort tracks turf course, which is a full mile in circumference and is among the nations best. The first two events, one for foreign-breds and the other for American-breds, are down for decision on Wednesday, September 16. Both are at one mile and a furlong and are for three-year-olds and upward. One is named the Atlantic City American Bred Stakes and is restricted to Continued on Page Forty -two 1 Atlantic City Cards Three Rich Turf Course Stakes Two 5,000 Elimination Tests And 0,000 Championship Listed Continued from Page One horses "foaled within the continental limits of the United States." The other, the Atlantic City Foreign Bred Stakes, is open only to horses foaled outside of the continental limits of the United States. These races are, in effect, elimination affairs, for only the leaders in each are eligible to compete in the rich finale, the United Nations Handicap at one mile and three-sixteenths, on Saturday, September 26. The conditions of the two elimination tests specify that the horses finishing first, second, third and fourth are invited to participate, without any further nomination or starting fees, in the United Nations, but that "if any of the four interests be unable to accept the invitation to this United Nations Handicap then the fifth entry will be invited and the sixth until there are at least four interests of this race represented." Weights for the handicap, at one mile and three -sixteenths, will be announced on September 21 at 5 p. m. Subscriptions for each of the stakes is 50, with 00 to start. One-half of the nomination and starting fees for each of the first two races will go to the winner of the United Nations. The stakes will close on August 3 and blanks will be available within the next few days at the Atlantic City Racecourse, P. O. Box 719, Atlantic City. N. J.
