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Vagabond Vagabond King King Takes Takes Downs Downs Sprint; Sprint; 55,000 55,000 in in Stakes Stakes at at Hawthorne Hawthorne 5,000 Gold Cup Principal Feature Eight Added Money Events Carded; Also Program Six Handicaps Worth 5,000 Fourteen stakes and handicap events valued at 30,000 in added money and purses will highlight Hawthornes 34-day fall race meeting, according to Robert F. Carey, managing director of Hawthorne XiC6 Course The distribution will include 55,000 in added money for eight stakes fixtures to be run during the .session, and 5,000 in purses for six handicap races scheduled by racing secretary L. C. Bogenschutz. Hawthorne will open September 8 with the 5,000 Inaugural Handicap topping the first days program, and will close October 16 with the running of the traditional Hawthorne Gold Cup, which will again carry 5,000 in added money for the mile and one-quarter event. Cup Nominations Close May 22 Nominations for the Hawthorne Gold Cup will close Saturday, May 22. Carey announced that prize money would be distributed among the first five finishers in the Gold Cup, a practice inaugurated last year. Under this arrangement, there will be 0,000 for the second-place finisher, 0,000 to the third, ,000 to the fourth and ,500 to the fifth-place horse. The other Hawthorne fixtures include the 0,000-added C. W. Bidwell Memorial Handicap, four stakes carrying 5,000 each in added money the Chicago Handicap, a turf race; the Midwest Handicap, the Illinois Owners Handicap and the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap, and the Durazna Stakes and the Yo Tambien Handicap, both valued at 5,000 in added money. The handicap events, in addition to the Inaugural, include the 0,000 Martie Flynn, the 5,000 Spy Song, the 5,000 Billings, the 0,000 Gold Cup Prep and the 0,000 Sun Beau. The schedule of stakes and handicaps is: September 8 Hawthorne Inaugural Handicap, 5,000, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. September 11 Chicago Handicap, 5,- Continucd on Page Forty-One Hawthorne Cards 30,000 In Stakes and Features Continued from Page One 000-added, three-year-olds and upward, one mile on turf. September 13 Martie Flynn Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds and upward, six and one-half furlongs. September 15 Durazna Stakes, 5,000-added, two-year-old fillies, six furlongs. September 18 Midwest Handicap, 5,-000-added, three-year-olds and upward, six and one-half furlongs. September 22 Spy Song Handicap, 5,-000, three-year-olds, six and one-half furlongs. September 25 C. W. Bidwell Memorial Handicap, 0,000-added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. September 29 Billings Handicap, 5,-000, three -year-olds and upward, six furlongs. October 2 Illinois Owners Handicap, 5,000-added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles. October 6 Yo Tambien Handicap, 5,-000-added, fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, six and one-half furlongs. October 9 Gold Cup Prep Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. October 9 Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap, 5,000-added, two-year-olds, six furlongs. October 13 Sun Beau Handicap, 0,000, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. October 16 Hawthorne Gold Cup, 5,-000-added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-quarter miles.
