The evening times., 1895-08-19

ably ride Jefferson. The race takes place
next Saturday.

While the whole running horse contingent
OF the country has its eyes turned towards
| the Futurity, which, Il is predicted, will be
oneoftheg greatest races ever run In America
| tIc harness horse men are equally as much
excited over the race between Joe Patchen
| aud John r. Gentry, which Is eet for next
| Thursday Mt the Washington Park meeting
| Chicago. There is every reason to believe
| that with good weather and good track
and Gentry and Pntchen in good condition,
| as they both appear toi,be at this time,
| this Will be one of the most stubbornly
fought, II It Is net the. fastest race thnt
has ever been trotted or paced In the
| world, though the remarkable performance
| of Robert ]. at Indianapolis last September,
when he beat Patchcn In 2:03 81 2:O2 1-2
| 2:O4 "a, is In mind. ~
Gentry and Patchen met at Freeport, Ill,
| on the gath OF last month, and Gentry beat
| the black horse handily in 2.O4 3-4, 2:O8
| 3-4 and 2:08 3-4 Thiarace, however, was
no criterion Of Patchen's speed. He cast q
shoe In both the first and second heats and
made an ugly break q rare thing for him
to do In the third heat. IfPatchen had not
met with these misfortunes IL is possible,
even probable, that the pa cling record
would have been broken !, for he carried
Gentry to the threc-Quarter pole in one
minute and thirty seconds, q two-mInute
clip. A week after this race Patchen beat
Robert j. ut Cleveland in 2:05 l Il, 2:O4 Ia,
2:O6 and zoo 1 4, the fastest fOur-heat
race ever recorded.
A week later, mt Buffalo, Patchen met
Robert j. again and beat him, this time in
2O4 I-2, 2:O4 1-2, 2:O5 I-2 and zoe
Ia, making still u better four-heat record
Robert got the third heat in this race. Gen
try's mark is 2.O3 3-4. When Robert ].
won the second heat from Putchcn in their
race at Indianapolis in zoe 1-2, Patchen
was timed out in 2O3 3-4. The Patchen
people claim that Joe is now faster than he
ever was In his life, while McHenry does
not hesitate to say that Gentry can cut
the two minute mark II he is called upon
to do SO.
While q great Majority of the. running
horse men OF the country seem to think
there will be but three horses to make the
race for the Futurity, the Ramapo stable
folks believe that they have a very likely
candidate for the rich event In The Ma
tive. Doggett will have the mount ON this
horse.
A lady-a Mrs. vaentine-has a string
OF runners at Gravesend. She is at her
stable every day, and superintends the
training of all OF her horses. She is said
to thoroughly understand the work. Mrs.
Valentine is fifty years old. She pulled
off o race handily at the Aqueduct track on
Thursday with a fiiiy, Helen II. She went
with the mare to see that she was properly
cared for, and Is reported to have won
good round sum, beside the purse, On her
vctoriy.
Arthur Schutley, a SpaDiard, and Arthur
Bingham. known as Billy the Kid, both
cowboys, started to ride a pony race
on Thursday. The race is for n purse of
$4,000, and Is TO be from Chicago To At
lanta. Ca, q distance OF sos miles. The
believe their ponies can outlast
the stockyards representatives. They ex-
pect TO make 100 mIies a day, and will re-
port back TO Chicago by telegraph each
day their whereabouts. They are to have
thirty-one stopping places through Indi-
ana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.
great three year old ufIlly was un-
covered at the races at indianapolis the
other day. She fssealied, Abnet. She was 4
entered in the ESQ Dtrct with ailot of cid 4
stagers. and took the second and third
heats in 2:12 81 and 2: I-2, but then the
older horses went after her and worried
her out of the race. ~
While August Belmoheffor some reason
seems to be unwilling to tell whether he
does or does not intend 20 send stable of
horses to England, II is getting to be the
general belief that Henry of Navarro and
Keenan, are entered III The Cesarevitch
and Cambridgesbire- handicaps, to be run
at Newmarket in the fall. .,..
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.