The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
Stake List for the Washington
Park Meet Given Out.
The Big Prize at Chicago Races
Is $4,000 Derby.
ENTRIES CLOSE FEB. 25.
Added Money and Features Same
as Last Year.
Will Bring Best Two Year Odds
on Earth Together.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-The American Derby
of 1904 will have s25. 900 added money,
the same amount that was added to
the race last year. 1t will be run on
Saturday. June Is. and the entries will
close on Thursday. February 25.
Secretary Howard of the Washington
Park club has published the list OF
stake offerings for the summer meet
ing. 1t is Identical with last year. the
same stakes being announced and the
same money added in every instance.
The stakes are seventeen in number
four for 3-year-olds, six for 3-year-olds
and upwards. and seven for 2-year-
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course. as it is of racing in the west.
is the Derby, the greatest American
racing event. The conditions for the
race are as follows:
The American Derby, $4,000 added, a
sweepstakes for 3-year-olds: $25 to ac-
company the nomination, 1925 addition
al to start; $4,000 added, of which $4,000
to the second and $1,000 to the third
morse. A winner of a 3-year-Old stake
OF the value of $4,000 to carry three
pounds. of two such stakes or one of
S5,OOO i've pounds. of three or more g.
year-old stakes of the value of $4,000
each seven pounds extra; maidens al
lowed seven pounds; to be run the first
day of the meeting: 11A miles.
Last years Derby had 120 nominal
lions, and nineteen horses went to the
post. This made the net value to the
winner. which was Middleton e. jung
bluth's The Picket. $27.025 Large
helds may always be depended upon in
this great race. So rich is the financial
prize. so widespread the fame gained
by the winning colt and his lucky
owner, and so uncertain have prognos-
locations of wise turfnen regarding the
issue of the race invariably been that
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! large number of competitors.
Entries will close this spring later
than they did last season, which in
sures that the number will not be so
great, lnasmuch as owners can tell
much more accurately the ability of
their colts, but every good 3-year-old
in the west and south, and some in the
east, will be Nominated.
Of Washington parks other 16 stakes
there are several which have become
recognized as so-called classics. The
chief ones are: For 3-year-olds and up
wards, the Wheeler and Young handi-
caps. with the Great Western and Oak
wood handfcaps as interesting side fea-
lures; for s2-year7Ofds.s the Hyde Park
stakes and the Lake View handicap;
and for 3-year-olds, the Sheridan, En-
| glewood, and DreXel stakes.
The conditions of these stakes fol-
low:
The American Derby; s25, 900 added.
The prospects for this event are said
to be the best in the history of the
club.
1t is expected that e5 per cent of all
the best 2-year-olds in the west the
past season will be entered, and of the
colts from the east High Ball, Leonidas
and Pulsus will be among the contest
ants.
The Sheridan Stakes; $4,000 added A
feature will be the starting of many
of the horses that run in the Derby.
The Englewood Stakes; $4,000 added.
The Drexel Stakes; 81, 900 added.
The Midway Stakes; $4,000 added.
The Auburn Stakes; $4,000 added.
The lakewood Handicap; 81, 500 added.
The Great Western Handicap; So, 900
added.
The Young Handicap; $4,000 added.
This stake will be contested by the best
handicap horses in the west, and it is
expected that the race will be one of
the hottest of the season.
The Wheeler Handicap; 81, 500 added.
A large number of good ones from the
east-Africander, Hermes. Advance
Guard, McChesney, and, possibly, Wa
ter Boy-will compete with western
blood.
The Lakeside Stakes; $1,000 added.
The Kenwood Stakes; $4,000 added.
The haywood Stakes; $4,000 added.
The Edgewater Stakes; $4,000 added
The QuickStep Stakes $4,000 added.
The Hyde Park Stakes; $500 added
This race will have one of the largest
fields during the meeting, including a
bunch of the best two-year-olds in the
country.
The Lakeview Handicap; $4,000
added.
Overnight Handicap; $3.50 and up
ward.
There will be no selling purses of less
than 5000, and other purses OF $500 and
upward are offered.
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