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I Hollywood Running Three 00,000 Added Stakes Boost Westerner, Sunset to That Figure; Gold Cup Other Rich Event HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 25. — Hollywood Park, which is paying the highest purses in the history of racing, will increase its number of 00,000 stakes races to three during the current meeting, the Hollywood Turf Club board of directors announced today. The Westerner June 27, Hollywood Parks mile and a quarter "Derby" which annually decides the three-year-old championship of the meeting, and the Sunset Handicap July 18, one of the nations leading distance events at a mile and five eighths for three-year-olds and up, will both be raised from their former value of 0,000 added to 00,000 added. Already in the 00,000 class on the tracks program is the Hollywood Gold Cup July 11, the only race in the world for Continued on Page Thirty-Eight Hollywood Running Three 00,000 Added Stakes Boost Westerner, Sunset to That Figure; Gold Cup Other Rich Event Continued from Page One which the Hollywood Turf Club puts up approximately 12,000 added. It was also announced that the five new stakes in the Primary division for three-year-old fillies will each be raised from 0,000 to 5,000 added. In announcing the new 00,000 values for the Westerner and Sunset and the increase in the three-year-old filly stakes, the Hollywood Turf Club board of directors made this statement: "It is our desire to present to the public the best racing features and to attract to Hollywood Park the top horses in America. We have pioneered the plan of better purses for beter horses and the increases weh have made are directly in line with this policy. "We recognize that stakes of unusual value when scheduled in proper balance with the rest of the racing program not only have a stimulating effect in attracting the best horses to a race meeting but also increase national interest in our sport. "Our purses for overnight races — the non-stakes events — have already been increased considerably and are again the highest in the nation. "It has always been our belief that in order to serve the best interests of both the public and the horse owners and breeders, a swell-rounded distribution of purses should be based upon the plan of offering the richer purses for the better horses. Consequently, as in the past, we are basing the distribution of our overnight purses on our well-established better purses for better horses policy. "By making the increases today in our stakes program we are following the policy customary among major racing associations of putting approximately one-third of purse distribution into stakes and two-thirds into overnight purses, although some tracks give a higher proportion in stakes. The increases authorized for our stakes now bring them up to the proper ratio in the over-all payment of purses. With Hollywood Park staging three 00,000 races at its current meeting, there are now at least 18 for this amount scheduled throughout the various racing centers of the United States this year. Ten have already been run, and of the seven remaining, there will.be three in the west. The Weste rner, Hollywood Gold Cup and Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park; two in the Midwest, the Arlington Classic and Warkington Park Handicap in Chicago; and three in the East, the New Castle Handicap at Delaware Park, the Belmont Stakes and the Garden State Futurity. Four have already been run in the West, all of them at Santa Anita; three in Florida, of which two were at Hialeah and one at Gulf stream; and three in the East and South, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, Kentucky Derby at Louisville, and Preakness at Pimlico.
