Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-11
THE SUMNER RACES.
Excellent Prospects for the Brooklyn
and Suburban Events.
CALIFORNIA HORSES DOUBTFUL.
Catcher thinner Fakes a Very Surprising
Kick About Signing.
COLLEGE, ATHLETES START TO TRAIN
rspE rrAt TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

rspE cIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.1
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-The entries
are in for the Suburban and Brooklyn
| Handicaps, and the racing season OF
1899 assumes proportions that succeed
ing weeks and months will gradually in
crease, until public interest eliminates in
the hoisting Of the racing flags in May. As
expected, the nominations to these and
other great races of the coming year show
| the falling off predicted in these columns
| when the present clash of racing Interests
! began. But with between 40 and 80 high
! class horses in the Brooklyn Handicap as
! well as the Suburban, neither of these great
events is likely dwindle in interest pro-
vided fair majority of those entered come
to the post. Of course, it is long WAYS
ahead until next May, when the chances of
training are likely to reduce this list by
the wedding out process inevitable to turf
operations. The post alone will show just
TO what extent this survival of the fittest
has been reached, but, as noted before, the
character of the entries to each event looks
of the high class, so desirable in great all
aged races such as these.
The Califurnians DoubtfuI.
AS far as known up to yesterday the total
entry for these great spring events was
something over 40 h,rses to each. Later
mails from California were expected to
increase these totals somewhat, doubtful
contingency, however, as Baldwin, Rose
and tie other Pacific coasters have little in
their all-aged lots this year likely to be en-
tered in an early Eastern handicap. Es-
pecially is this likely to be the case with
the Brooklyn handicap, run as early as May,
by which time few California horses are
likely to have gotten over the long railroad
journey East, let alone he successfully pre-
pared for such race as either of these.
Hidalgo came the nearest to such feat in
the first Brooklyn handicap, when Dry
Monopole, Blue Wing and he finished al
most on a line. But this black horse, called
the Black Spanisrd of Rancho del Paso, was
one of a wonderfully vigorous constitution,
that rose superior to a $500 mile trip by
rail, change of water, air, etc. Few horses
could have done this and run that memora-
bic mile and quarter from the rear as
Hidalgo did in 2:061I, a second faster than
the winner. Therefore, in nv opinion, few
if anv California entries will be received
for the Brooklyn handicap or the Suburban
either.
Some Famous Horses.
But the two score of animals represented
In these great events are as noted of marked
quality. The names Of Longstreet, King
ston, Tennv, Tournament, Tristan, Claren-
don, Raceland, Teuton. Demuth Loantaka
and Cassius would alone make grand sue
cess of any contest in which they all took
part. Then in the 4-year-old lists are such
animals as Poet Scout Montana. Bermuda,
Rey del Rey, ,Strathmeath, RUSSELL Reckon,
Yosemite, Ie, ,lare, Bolero, Sallie McClel-
lanG, Portchester, Uno Grande. Terrifer,
Ambulance, Picknicker and Pessara The
3-year-olds are represented By His High
ness, Lamplighter, Nomad, Leonawell and
King Cadmus, not numerous lot, it is
true, but then most 3-vear-olds that have
extensive engagements in stakes are not 81
ways entered in a big handicap like this
Other animals entered are Sir John, Eon,
Banquet, Castaway IL, May Win, Judge
Morrow Chaos, Kingman, Ban Chief, Major
Domo, English Lady, Reporter, Longford
and Trinity.