The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-20

The inaugural meeting or the Maryland Jockey
Club will commence on Tuesday, October IS, and
continue four days. There will be four races each
day, and the programme Is so diversified that the
lovers OF oil styles OF racing--dashes, heats and
hurdles-will be highly grataed. ON the first day
the sports will begin with hurdle race. to he fol-
lowed by $4,000 match between Narraganset
and Stamps; then the Great Dinner Party Stakes
which closed with thirty entries or $1,000 each half
forfeit, two miles, win be run; after which there viii
be race at mile heats by three year Odds that have
not won single race during the year, the horses to
carry one hundred pounds.
On the second day the ball opens with the supper
Stakes, a sweepstakes for two-yearolds, which mas
twenty I'VE nominations. This will be followed b. the
Monumental City Handicap, two miles for all ages.
The nominations for this event Major, Abdel
Kader, Midday, Crown Prince Nellie James, YES
pucius, Sue Dougherty and Lida Grissom. The third
will be selling race OF one mile and quarter,
at the usual weights for value or the horse.
The racing OF that day viii close with the Breakfast
Stakes. for our-year-olds two miles and repeat
There are twelve nominations Tor this race, which
undoubtedly Will be grand affair.
On the third day hurdle jumping will open the
ball. The second race Will be dash OF two miles by
three ear-olds. The nominations for this event
Kingfsher, Eciptic Major, Midday, My Maryland,
Ida Grlssom, Flash of Lightning, Item, Lady Clyde
and War Path. The third viii be for purse OF
ST. o0O for all ages, a dash OF two miles; the days
business closing with mile heats for all ages
The fourth day opens with q sweepstakes for two
year-olds, mile dash, which closed with the follow
ing nominations:-D. ID. Wthers' ch. +. BY Eclipse,
dam Laura Farris: M. II. Sanrord's II. I. Madame
Dudley, Mr.. Lynch's b. c. Stanley, and A. X. Rich
ards b. c. by Knight OF St George The second
race is handicap for three yearoids that have
during the meeting-onc mile. The third race Is the
Bowie Stakes, for all ages. four mile heats. This
| grand affair closed with eighteen nominations. and
looked forward to the great event Of the meet
| ing. The fourth race, and the closing one OF the
meeting viii be the Consolation Purse, for beaten
horses Of all ages--a dash OF a mile and half.
The above programme is one Of the best that
ever made out, and from the number OF horses OF
well known racing fame that nave already reached
the Pimico Course daily taking their gallops
there Is no doubt that the fields will be full and the
racing OF the first order. One great event
the Dinner Party Stakes which Will net the
winner about s2O,o00-will be contested Tor
by the best tnree.yenr-ods in the country,
there being originally thirty entries. Some Of these
| however, have since died, while several or tie
Others have broken down ana otherwise gone amiss,
| ten or dozen at most; but they Will make des-
perate for the great prize This rich stake will
| ass uredly mOnOpoze the interest OF the day and
give rise to some heavy specualions the result.
Another great event or the meeting VIII be the four
mile heat race which closed with eighteen entries.
Should one-haf OF that number come to the post il
Will be the largest field Tor that distance that ever
| came together In this country
| The no rses thai think To start Tor
the Dinner Party Stakes are:-Moore CoIfce )
chestnut colt Foster, by Lexington dam Verona. by
/ Yorkshire; also, from the same stable, chest
aar colt y hsnSsn D. 'x sansTa saS
| colt PreakDess, by Lexington, dam Bay
! Leaf: J. +. Chamberlin's bay FLY susan Ann by
| Lexington dam Roxana, by Chesterfield; Bowie n
| Hall's chest nut hly My Maryland, by Brown Dick.
/ IA m a Mc ~ or q l.
nut colt John Happy, by Brown Dick, dam sally
woodward, by Albion, and probably both OF them;
dam Flliyree, by Stockwell: d. D. Wthers' chestnut
! FLY Ecptc. by Eclipse, dam Nina, by Boston; j. ].
| OFallons chestnut colt Governor Bowie, by Learn
| ington dam UndJne, by Yorkshire; his chestnut
| colt William X. Travers, by Uncle VIC dam Sunny
South by irish Birdcatcher, perhaps both OF them,
and r. Morris chestnut illy Remorscless, by Eclipse,
| dam Uarharifv