Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-15
Breeders Meeting Stakes
The Vermont Association of Road
and Trotting Horse Breeders


Opens the following stakes to be trotted at the
fourth annual meeting to be held at Rutland
August 81, 30 and 30.
No. l.-AssoClATIoN STAKES. For fnals OF
| 1881, Sl5 entrance, in installments of SO, 81
and 81, with $50 added; = mile heats; best :
| in3.
| No. 2.-PINE HILL STOCK FARM STAKES. Fol-
| foals of 1856, $50 entrance in installments OF
| 50, 50 and S10 with 800 added; mile heats,
best in 3.
No. 3.-KENT STAKES. For toals of 1855, s2j
| entrance, in installments OF 50, as and Sl2,
with 500 added.
No. 4.-GEo. W. HOOKER STAKES For foals
OF 1854, $50 entrance, in instalments of IS, $40
| and Sl5 with $50 added.
No. 5:-BRooKsIDE STOCK FARM STAKES.
For foals OF lss3, $40 entrance, in instalments
OF SlO $40 and $50, with $3.50 added.
No. 6.-AssoCIATIoN GUARANTEE PURSE 800.
Entrance 10 per cent of purse, payable pa per
cent June 10, Pa per cent July 16, per cent
August 10; horse not required to be named
until last payment; the whole amount of en-
trance money to go into the purse even if it
should exceed $500; open to all horses that
nave never sbeaten three minutes prior to
closing of nominations.
No. 1.-GREEN MOUNTAIN STOCK FARM
STAKES. For stations of any age that have
never beaten 2.35, $40 entrance, in instalments
OF $40, 10 ana $50, with 800 added.
No s.-AssOCIATION STAKES. For foals of
lss6, confined to stations, entrance s25 in in.
stallmcnts of So IS and Sl2, with slOO added .
mile heats best , in 3.
No. 9.-AssOCIATIoN STAKES. For foals of
1850, confined to stations, entrance $50. in in.
stallments OF 3d. $40 and SO, with 800 added.
No. l0.-ADDED STAKES. For mares of any
age that have never beaten 2.3j, $40 entrance
IN lnstallments of $40, $40 and $40 with BOO
added.
All stakes and purses to be mile heats. hest
, in >, unless otherwise specified; distance
barred in all stakes UNDER four-year-olds No
morse can take further money by reason OF
other parts of the purse or stakes not being
filed or trotted for. All nominations must be
made and the first installment paid on or he.
lore June 10; the second installment due July
l6, the third and final installment August -
Nominators not completing payment OF en-
trance forfeit installments paid.
All stakes and purses divided rs follows
9TH. "
Nominations and payments must be made to
Joseph Batteil, treasurer, Middlebury, VT,
who Will send entry blanks on application.
Trottng to governed by the trottng rules
OF the National Association OF Trotting Horse
Breeders.
The Association offers the following pre-.
NUNS entrance free(
Matched horses i5ls hands and over S5O-S25
TO hrst, 80 to second and $40 to third.
single horse, S50-S25 to first, SIS to second
and $40 to third.
Brood mares with colt at foot, s5O-S25 to
first, Sl5 to second and $40 to third.
rr IN addition to the above premiums is the
(entrance free) 800; $50 to first, $50 TO second
$50 to third. Contestants must trace in direct
male line to Justin Morgan and have at lea Il
l64thot his blood so as to be eligible to registry
in the Register of Morgan Horses now in pre-.
paration by Joseph Battell. Premium takers
IN same class last season, barred All Dre
miums close Aug. Is.
Membership tee, 80 per year. Membership
gives all rights of entry and free ticket to the
annual exhibition. Any resident of Vermont
may become member (unless objected to)
by forwarding the tee to the Treasurer. In
competition tor stakesand premiums, only
members are eligible.
Applications for stalls and boxes and tor
information about the track and grounds
should be addressed to +. Bowman, Supt
Rutland, VI.
GEO w. HOOKER, Prest., Brattleboro, Vt
JOSEPH BATTELL, Treas, Middlebury, Vt.
f. F. BRowNELL, Sec'y, Burlington, VT.