The Washington herald., 1918-09-22
STAKERACES
AREFEATURES
Maryland State Fair Has
Carded Attractive Pro-
gram for Meeting.

Laurel Nd. Sept 21-The publi-
cation Of the program book for
the first nine days of the coming
October race meeting OF the Mary
land State Fair corporation reveals
the fact that Laurel Park will this
fall exploit racing on a scale un-
eNcelled in its liberality since the
heyday Of the old Coney Island
Jockey Club when the beautiful
Sheepshead Bay race track was the
mecca, spring and fall. of American
thoroughbreds and American turf
folk.
The Maryland State Fair corpora
tion will race twenty-seven days at
Laurel Park and the total OF money
that will be distributed among
horsemen during that period will
exceed $275,000, a daily average Of
more than $4,000 a day. The con-
tribution in added money OF the
Maryland State Fair corporation
will exceed $23O,00o, Of which s4i,-
600 will be hung up in the twenty
two stakes, which closed some
weeks back and attracted upwards
Of 1000 nominations.
The balance will be offered IN
overnight purses. The sFErerate
value OF the Laurel Park stakes will
be considerably greater than s44,-
OOO because in all Of them entrance
ices and starting money will be ex-
acted from the nominatcrs Of the
competing horses.
The order OF running the twenty
Two stakes will be: October ]. Laurel
Handicap. six furlongs: October .
howard Selling Race, one mile ana a
sixteenth; October 3, Annapolis
Stakes, six furlongs; October S, Balti-
more Handicap, one mile and a six
teenth; October S, CarrolIton Handi.
cap, one mile and a sixteenth: Octo-
ber 9. Blue Point Selling Race, five
and half furlonEs; October 10. Mar.
tina Washington Handicap. one mile,
October L. Columbus Handicap six
furlOngs: October IL. Washington
Handicap. one mile and a furlong
October l., Maryland Handicap, siS
turlongsi October Il, Anne Arundel
Stakes, one mile and a furlong; Oc-
tober il. Georgetown lightweight
Handicap, six furlonEs: October 10
Royal Blue Steeplechase, about two
miles, and Prince George Handics .,
one mile: October -. Canvashack Sell
ing Stakes, one mile and a sixteenth;
October q Ellicott City Handicap. one
mile and a sixteenth: October Il, Blue
and Gray lightweight Handicap, si1
furlongs; October 26. Chevy Chase
Steeplechase Handicap. about two
miles ard half, and Dixie Handicap
one mile and a quarter: October -
Potomac Handicap. one mile, and Oc-
tober 81. National Handicap, one mile
and a furlong
The Maryland State Fair corpora
I tion will add this fall no less than
81, 90 in any overnight races and
forty or more Of these events will
have an added money value of s. .9O1
or more In addition to the Royal
Blue and Chevy Chase steepleChaseS,
which have closed for steeplechase
horses Of the better sort, four over
night chases have been arranged for
the jumpers for the FIRST nine days
OF the meeting.
The extent to which steeplechasinG
will be featured through the last
eighteen days OF the meeting will
depend on the appreciation votaries
Of the cross-country sport show OF
the efforts of Col. Matt Winn. Laurel
Parks genial manager, 70 provide
profitable employment for their
horses.
The indications are that the steeple-
chasing will he first-class throughout
the meeting. There will be no steeplc-
chasing at any OF the great tracks
about New York after the finish OF
the Queens County Jockey Clubs
fall meeting at AQueduct next Sstur-
DAY. Neither the Jamaica nor the
Aquedgct course boasts Of a steeple-
chase course. and most Of the hunt
meetings about New York have been
called of on account OF the war.
The amateur horsemen who support
these hunt meetings are. mostly. en-
gagged in war work OF one sort or
another