Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-10
BELMONT PROGRAM MADE PUBLIC
BiR Puraes Are offered In Addition
to the take Races.

NEW YORK, May 9.-The Westchester
Racing association has made public the
full program of stake and overnight races
to be run at the coming Belmont park
meeting, which opens on Thursday, May 10.
In addition to twenty-five stakes the gross
value OF which is more than Ss0,0O0, the
association has hung up purses ranging in
value from $500 TO 5000 in the overnight,
selling events, handicaps and special con-
dition races. The schedule calls for ten
days of racing on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays up to and including Wednes-
DAY, June 2. On the opening day the stake
features are the 5000 Metropolitan handi-
cap, one mile. and the New York steeple-
chase, while there are two races for 2
yeRr-olds, each with 500 added; a race for
S-year-olds, 500 added, and a selling event
at a mile and a sixteenth, $500 added.
on the second day, Saturday, May is.
the features are the Juvenile stakes, To-
boggan handicap and Harlem selling, with
a $500 mile handicap. a selling race for p
year-olds, $500 added, and a seven furlong
event for non-winners in 1905 and 1909. 5000
added. For Tuesday, May IS. the third
day, the Bouquet stakes and Grotona handi-
cap will be run. also a SO0 race for 2-year-
olds, a 500 selling event at a mile and a
sixteenth.
On the fourth day, Thursday, May 20,
the Norwood. a new stake, and the Ladies
will be features. the other eveTs being a
steeplechase for maidens and winners Of
one race, three races each with $500 added
and one with $500. The historic withers
stakes and the Whitney Memorial steeple-
chase will be decided on Saturday, May 22,
with a $500 handicap, two 800 races for q
yeaT-Olds and a condition event with $500
added.
The stake features on Tuesday, May 2S,
are the Fashion and the Claremont handl-
caps and the overnight events are a $500
race for 2-year-olds, a $500 handicap, a
$500 race for 3-year-olds and a 800 selling
event at seven furlongs. On Thursday.
May %. the Jockey club weight for age
race, the Amateur Cup and the Meadow
brook steeplechase are the carded stakes.
with a $500 selling event for 2-year-olds, A
$500 handicap and a $500 selling race for
S-year-olds and upward at seven furlongs.
The features for Saturday, May 20, the
eighth day, are the PocantIco stakes and
international steeplechase, with a 500 race
for 2-year-olds, a $500 handicap at a mile
and a sixteenth, a $500 high weight selling
event and another selling race, 800 added,
at nine furlOngs, Decoration day will he
CeleprdNeu on MONDAY, May 81, when the
$4,000 National Stallion stakes, the Van
Cortlandt handicap and the Grand Ma
tionsl steeplechsse will be the star attrac-
tions, with two $500 overnight events and
one Of 500. on the last day OF the meet
ing, Wednesday, June 2, the $4,000 Bel
mont stakes will be run, together with the
Laureate stakes, a $500 race for 2-year-olds.
a $500 handicap a selling steeplechsse with
S4O0 added and a $500 selling race al six
furlongs.
Big reductions all along the line have been
made in the purses for the racing meet of
the Brooklyn Jockey club, which will be
inaugurated at Grsvesend on June 3 with
the classic Brooklyn handicap as the head
liner for the opening day. This event will
have a gross value Of 5000. as against
$4,000 last season. The weights will be
announced on May 25, while the entries
are slated to close ten days earlier. Most
OF the old ~fayorlte events that made inn.
portant turf history in past years have
been newed The Brookdale and Park
way handicsps, the Broadway for 9-year-
Odds and the Great American and Tremont
for 2-year-olds are reduced to $500. The
steeplechase events that are carded are
the Empire State, the Greater New York
and the Kensington.