The New York herald., 1922-07-25
New $25,0O0 Stake for
Laurel Track in Fall
Will Be Handicap at Mile and
Quarter.

LAUREL, Md. July 24.-Anticipating a
banner race meeting at Laurel Park In
October. President Spalding Lowe Jenk-
ins of the Maryland State Fair Associa-
ton has become ambitious to have the
championship among the three-year-
olds and upward for 1922 settled at this
popular Maryland course. With this end
in view the management has added a
new stake to the list of offerings for the
October meeting. which starts on Octo-
Der and ends on October 2S. The as
sociation will hang up an added stake
of $4,000 for q feature to be known as
the Washington Handicap. and this rich
purse IS expected to bring the pick OF
the handicap division of the year. The
race will be handicap over the mile
and a quarter.
To use q trite expression. time and
trials will tell which Is the real cham
pion, and to this end the $4,000 purse
will be hung UP on the last day of the
meeting, with the hope that the best
horse Of the three-year-olds and upward
will be there and show his superiority
over the others. There will be no reason
for any one not getting his chance. for
the stakes now announced will not close
until Thursday, August "a.
The Maryland Handicap, of $4,000,
will be the last stake exclusively for
three-year-olds to be run in the East
this year. At the present time there Is
no decided opinion as to which may be
tho best of the three-year-olds of 1922.
because there are some supposed stars
that have not yet had a real chance.
During the Laurel meeting the asso-
citation will hang UP the big sum of
$500. 900 in stakes and purses. There
will be no stake with less than $4,000
added money. and there will be no over
night purse less than $1,000. The over
night purses will be OF $1,000. $1,000
1000 and $4,000 added value.
In addition TO tho $4,000 Washington
Handicap, Laurel offers two $4,000
stakes and five stakes with $4,000 added
10 each. One of the $4,000 stakes is the
Maryland Handicap. for three-year-olds
to go a mile and a quarter, and this
race Is TO be run on Saturday, October
IA. two weeks ahead OF the $25,OOI
Washington Handicap. The other Is the
Laurel Stakes. which will prove most
/ Interesting because II Is condition af-
fair for all ages from the two-year-olds
up. TO race over the mile distance.
The following are the stakes 10 be
run at the meeting. exclusive of several
rich overnight events:
| Tuesday October 3--The Capital Handicap
| three -year-ods and upwards; 5000 added
| six furlongs.
| Saturday, October T--The National; condi
tion: two-year-olds; 5000 added; six fur.
| longs.
Saturday, October 14-Chevy Chase Steeple
c,iase Handicap; four-year-ods and upward
| IS 900 added: about two miles and n half.
Saturday. october 1.-THE Maryland Handi
cap; three-year- olds; $4,000 added; one mile
and n quarter.
Saturday, October 2i--The Patuxent Steeple
| chase Handicap; three-year-olds and upward
! S., 900 added; about two miles.
| Saturday, October 21--1'he Laurel; condi
tions all ages $4,000 added; one mile.
1 Saturday October 2S--The Manor 1Iandi
cap; two-year-olds: $1,000 added. one mile
Saturday October 2s--The Washington
| Handicap, three-year-olds and upward. S2J,
GOO added one mile and quarter.