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Show JOCKEY CLUB TO GIVE BIG SUM IN PURSES NEW TORK. Jan. 2. Announcement has been made of the Coney Island Jockey club stake and handicap events for the coming racing season, entries for which are about to close. They aggregate in value $268,500. With other events the aggregate is raised , to $350,000. There are a number of stakes which close later in the season and flvt overnight over-night sweepstakes which sre added each day to the programme that do not figure in this sum. On the face of these figures, Sheepshead Bay will distribute the largest sum that has ever been given giv-en away by any one club in this country. coun-try. t |