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Overnight purses at Hoosier Park will be increased 10 percent starting on Friday. Among the reasons for the purse boost are strong business and conservative purse account management at the beginning of the meet, which opened Sept. 3. . . . Suffolk Downs has added four stakes to its schedule for the current meeting. The added stakes, all $40,000 races restricted to Massachusetts-breds, are: the Louise Kimball on Oct. 8, the John Kirby on Oct. 22, the Amelia Peabody on Nov. 5, and the Norman Hall on Nov. 19. . . . Graded stakes winners St Averil and Gators N Bears, both Grade 1-placed runners, will enter stud in 2006 at the Maryland Stallion Station. Both will remain in training for the fall.. . . Thistledown will host the sixth annual silent auction to benefit New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program on Breeders' Cup Day, Oct. 29. New Vocations this year will place more than 275 former racehorses.