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Show Wim RACING IS EMCWIHIM One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Stakes, Purses and Specials. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK, April 4. A grand circuit, cir-cuit, trotting meeting for 190S, with a total of even $100,000 in stakes, purses and specials, looks like a very oucourag-ing oucourag-ing sign for a successful and prosperous prosper-ous harness racing scaspn. This announcement comes from the Driving association of Columbus, O., the member which gives the closing meet-" ing of the year, and is, next to Lexington, Lex-ington, the last big harness meeting of tho entire season. In a Iettor inclosing tho announcement announce-ment of his early, closing stakes, Secretary Secre-tary Harry IX "Shepard divides the amount to bo hung up for his two weeks' meeting as follows: Forty-one thousand dollars in stakes, $-10,500 in purses. $17,"00 in futurities, and $1000 in special attractions, making the magnificent mag-nificent total an oven $10,000, a prize record for the grand circuit in its cn-tiro cn-tiro hislor.y, Tho early closing slakes include two $10,000 stakes, tho Llostor Columbus Breweries and tho Board of Trade and Bankers' purse, given respectivelj- to the 2:1G and 2:12 class trotting; throo $5000 stakes, the Hotel Hartman, tho King and tho Buckoye purses, for 2:1-1 ami 2:0G pacing, and 2: It) class trotting, trot-ting, and two $3000 purscn, the Columbus Colum-bus and tho Board of Trade, which will be awarded respectively to the 2:00 class trotters aud 2:07 'class pacers. The purse events which will bo announced an-nounced later, but which will carr3' a premium list of $10,000, will bo divided in various classes at $1200 for each ovent. The futurities aro tho Kcntucly Stock Farm and the two divisions of the Chicago Horse Review purse, while the specials will also bo announced later in the season. |