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! • — Renew The Garden State, Richest Race, October 29 The Gardenia, Richest Juvenile FillyEvent, to Be Run October 22 CAMDEN, N. J., June 9.— The Garden State, the worlds richest race, will be run at Garden State Park on Saturday, October 29, it was announced today by Walter H. Donovan, executive vice-president of the Garden State Racing Association. The race, a test of a mile and a sixteenth for two-year-olds, grossed 69,965 last year. In naming the date for the third running of The Garden State, Donovan also announced that the first running of The Gardenia, another mile and a sixteenth feature, restricted to two-year-old fillies, will be held on Saturday, October 22. The purse for this stake already exceeds any other in the history of thoroughbred racing for juvenile fillies. The Garden State is endowed with 00,-000 in added money, the remainder of the gross purse beinj made up of nominating, eligibility, entering and starting fees by the participating horsemen. The current gross value of this stakes is 78,120. A second eligibility payment of 50 each is due July 15. At present, 532 two-year-olds, nine of them fillies, are in good standing for The Garden State. The current value of The Gardenia purse is 5,050, with an eligibility payment of 25 due on July 15. Four hundred and Continued on Page Forty-Fire - Renew The Garden State, Richest Race, October 29 The Gardenia, Richest Juvenile Filly Event, to Be Run October 22 Continued from Page One nine two-year-old fillies are in good standing for the inaugural running. "The response given by horsemen to the third running of The Garden State and the first contesting of The Gardenia is exceptionally gratifying," Donovan said. "It indicates a widespread interest in juvenile thoroughbreds among horsemen, and we feel that running both races over the two-year-old championship distance of a mile and a sixteenth will have a definite effect upon the titles for both sexes. "Our experience in running two-year-old races indicates that the public is particularly attuned to the prospects for juveniles in the fall season because of the bearing they have on the great three-year-old competitions coming up only a few months later," he concluded.
