Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-05-19
T0DAY'S RACES
Crisp News Concerning the
 Important Occurrences.
30,000 PEOPLE PRESENT
Clifford and Sir Walter the Favor ties in the Field-Race
 Won by Dr. Rice.

Brooklyn, May 15.-The racing season on the great Eastern track will have an suspicious opening to-day.
 The Brooklyn Handicap, a stske for
 horses three years and upward, will
 be run over the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs course, at Gravesend, at about 5:3O this afternoon. The stake is of guaranteed value of S25,0O0. The thoroughbreds will contest over mile and a quarter of ground. Fully thirty thousand people will crowd the great standssand cheer the horses as they come to the post, start on their interesting race, and yell them 8 welcome into the stretch.
 Lowlander is most interesting can- ditste. His best work has been a mile and quarter in 2:14. Loantaks has worked at about the same notch. Diablo is credited with mile and @ quarter at
 Morris Park ln 2:13 and Plckpocket's best has been nine furlongs in 2O3 Co., msnche worked in 2:l4 1-2 yesterday. He is greatly-improved horse and will take lot of beating. Leonawell has worked in 2:1l 3-4. Terrifer has not done we'll, and Blitzsn is still an un- known quality. Herald has been going great guns at Monmouth. Long Beach, on his past record, seems out classed, but mile and furlong in POO 1-2 this Spring is work not to be despised.
 Harry of Navarro is a three-year-old and has this spring worked the Handi- cap distance in POS 34. Though a three-year-old has never yet won the Handicap, this fellows work entities him to be marked dangerous"
 Dr. Rice has lot eff speed, but is un- der suspicion. He bled in one of his races when Gideon $ Daly owned him, and they sold him last year to Fred Foster. The first race in which Foster started the colt, Dr. Rice won at a mile in the mud at Morris Park, galloping away from lot of stake horses, and finishing pulling up in l:42. Rice did the Handicap distance Tn 2:1l 1-2 last week and Foster thinks he has a great chance for the money.
 First on the list is Leigh & Roses candidate, Clifford, four-year-oId brown colt by Bramble, out of Duchess. Clifford will go to the post with an ad- vantage over the others. He has been racing and that fits horse better than anything else. Clifford's best race this year was at Memphis, where be met and defeated Yo Tembien and others. Last year he started in twenty-four races, uyrD m fnh xl third four times. He made Lamplight- CT look like selling platter at Hawthorne Park last Fall, and beat many other good ones. He has speed, but there is doubt about his gameness. Those who saw him in the American Derby, at Chicago. say he quit. Nevertheless, he IS dangerous competitor.
 Sir Walter comes next. His chances are rosy. He is a four-year old bay colt by Midlothian, out of La Scala, and is the property of Dr. Gideon Lee Knapp He Is good, game and true. He has speed, and will try to the last ounce there is ia him. He is au improved horse over last year, and his best work thus far this year has been & mile and quarter in 2:13 over the Jerome Park course. This is deemed equal to 2:10 at Brooklyn. Sir Walters races were all good last year. In fact, he did not run a bad one, thought putting up tremen- dous weight at times. His best race was at Monmouth Park, where carry ing 129 pounds, he defeated Daily Amer ica (122) and Ramspo Q15) at mile and a quarter in POS 1-2. He won easily.
 Don Alonzo is M. F. Dwyer's candi- date. He is a four-year-old bay colt, by Long Taw, out of Round Dance. He cannot lay much claim to greatness oD his performances last year, and he was under suspicion of having an extremely small heart. His tried the West for the American derby knocked him all askew and re dld not recover from the effects of that trip until late In the fall. This season he is a greatly improved horse, and does his work in taking fashion, His best trial up to date was a mile and a quarter in 2:13 1-4. He could have gone much faster, however. Don A,onzo has a trick Of running out on tae turns and in big field of horses he is Tot likely to be at his best, as he is long-leggeo ard d is much distressed when buffeted about
 Ajax, next on the list, i. Col. Rup- pert's candidate. He is 8 four year-old brown colt by imp. Dandie Dlmmont, out of Moorlilght. Ajax great work has been mile and @ quarter in 2:1l 3-4, but he finished all out and was @ very tired horse. He will have to show con- siderable improvement today to have any chance at first money. An unwise selection has been made ln the person of Gar'i on as the jockey. As Ajax wants to be ridden iu front, and Garrison can- uot ride horse that way, it will be seen that the horse will not be helped much. Ajax did not begin to get good until late in the fall of last year, when at Mon- mouth Park he beat Lamplighter, Sport, Bsssetlsw and other good | ones in easy style.
 As near ss can be estimated the fol- 1 lowing may be seen at the post in the | great handicap;