Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-20
THE TwO-YEAR-OLDs OF 1886.
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 From the Turf. Field and Farn.l
 If the form of the best ,year-olds is analysed it will be found that real good ones were more numerous this year than for many years past, and it is more than doubtful if there has been in the past decade any better two year-old colts in the United States than Fremont, Hanover and the unfortunate and much regretted King Fox, to say nothing of Kingston, Potsen Jim Gore, Raymond and Duhme. Fremont flashed upon the public like brilliant meteor, and defeated all the colts he met with such ridiculous ease that it was concluded that those he defeated con- stituted an indifferent lot, but any colt which can win thirteen of the best stakes in the country, flom a half to three quarters of a mile, always well in hand, and frequently being the last at the start, must possess more three races, winning the Hopeful, July and Sapling stakes at Monmouth Park, each three-quarters of mile, the fastest time made being 1:1515. Fremont and Hanover are both engaged in the Withers, Belmont and Jerome stakes at Jerome Park: the LOT illsrd, Omnibus, Stevens and Stockton stakes at Monmouth Park; the Coney Island Derby and Tidal stakes at Sheepshead Bay; Dixie and Breckenridge at Baltimore. Kingston won two races out of six starts, including the Camden stakes, six furlongs, in 1:16, and the Select stakes, same distance, in 1:1414, the fastest race by two-year-old this year. In this last race he beat King Fox, who con ceded him five pounds.
 King Fox (dead) ran two remarkable races the Great Eastern handicap, six furlongs, with one hundred and twenty-five pounds, in 1:15, and the Flatbush stakes, seven fur longs in 1:274. It would appear that the Withers stakes, which is one of the ante post betting events in the East, is almost a gift for the Brooklyn stable, unless some very remarkable dark one should come to the front, like Tyrant in 1885. The best ones in it are Firenzi, Milton, Kingston, Bel videre, Raymond and Nat Good win. Both Fremont and Hanover must be classed as dangerous in all the fixed events in which they are engaged. The rumor that either " as retired on account of injuries or shaky gins seems to be without foundation, as both now appear to be as sound and well as could be desired at this season of the year.
 The Allies in the East were good lot. Fiji renzi, the daughter of Gleneig and Florida, the latter a sister to the great Hindoo, is un- occasionally the best one with engagements in 1887. She won several good races, inclrl- ding the Autumn stakes, six furlongs, in 1:15; the Nursery at Jerome and a purse, seven furlongs, in 1:2S34, in which she de- feated such sprinters as Burch, Pear Jen- nings and others She is engaged in all the lilly stakes in the East, including the Mer maid at Sheepshead; the Monmouth Oaks and West End Hotel stakes, at Monmouth; Coney Island Derby and Tidal, at Sheeps- head, and the Lorillard, Omnibus, Stevens and Stockton stakes at Monmouth Come mara, who proved herself one of the best of the two -year-old Allies, and is a feather in the cap of her promising young sire Strat- ford, has been declared out of all her three year-old engagements, hence it is useless to consider her as an element in the fixed events. Bessie June, another excellent Ally, is also but little engaged. La Juive and lies, are in the lilly stakes at Jerome, Coney Island, Monmouth Park and Baltimore, and La Jnive in the Alabama at Saratoga. Gri- sette, the fine daughter of Gleneig, has only two or three engagements next year.
 The best colts shown in the West were Potee-i, Terra Gotta (not in any three-year- old event., Jim Gore (EzekieD, Duhme, Mon trose and Duke of Bourbon. All of these except Duhme and Terra Gotta are in the Kentucky Derby, and have shown fairly well in public, and we do not hesitate to say that the chances of Montrose and the Duke of Bourbon are fully as good as those of any colts in the race, and their chances to win it in good hands equal to the best.
 The Allies in the West were fairly good lot The best which have shown are Lizzie Krepps (Glenella), Wary and Jennie Treacy. The latter was one of the speediest Allies ever seen in the West until trained to a standstill. She is both speedy and game Lizzie Krepps showed high form, particular ly'in the East, while Wary won number of capital races and proved herself good one. With the exception of Jennie Treacy, they are not engaged in the eastern stakes. She is in the Mermaid and Tidal stakes at Sheeps- head, the Monmouth Oaks and Stockton mto ot rhn A1oA ok Saratoga. The trio will likely meet in the Kentucky Oaks, and from Jennie's great speed she should land the stake. To sum up the probabilities of the two events, which have always attracted public attention in the winter, outside of the great suburban handi- cap, it looks as if the Brooklyn stable, with two such colts as Fremont and Hanover, ought to win the Withers and that the Ken