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NSH A Announces Closing Of Two Chase Stakes StakesSpring Spring Maiden Has ThirtyFour And National Hurdle FortySix FortySixNEW NEW YORK N Y May 1 The Na ¬ tional Steeplechase and Hunt Association announced today that the Spring Maiden Steeplechase for 1957 closed with 34 nom ¬ inations and the National Maiden Hurdle closed with 46 nominations nominationsThe The Spring Maiden because of the ab ¬ sence of chase racing at Belmont Park this spring will be run in one division only at Delaware Park on Friday June 21 and the National Maiden Hurdle will be run in two divisions at Monmouth Park Friday July 12 and at Saratoga Friday August 16 16The The conditions of the 18th running of the Spring Maiden call for nonwinners over brush at the time of closing Among the nominations are Gay Time H win ¬ ner of the Rogue Dragon Hurdle Handicap at Belmont Park in 1956 Muguet n who took the New York Turf Writers Cup at the United Hunts meeting last year and Tarboots victor in the National Maiden Hurdle at Saratoga last summer All three horses run in the racing silks of John M Schiff Also nominated for the Spring Maiden is Mrs Ogden Phipps Affable winner of the Promise Hurdle at the 1956 Saratoga meeting meetingThe The nominations for the National Maid ¬ en Hurdle include many new prospects for racing through the field Walter M Jef ¬ fords who won two of 1956 maiden hurdle stakes with Policeman Day has named Milady Rose for this years series Mont pelier and Mrs Ogden Phipps have four nominations each
