New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-26
ENTRIES FOR FLEETWOOD RACES

ENTRIES FOR FLEETWOOD RACES.
THEIR NUMBER SHOWS THAT RECENT LEGIs-
IATIoN HAS GIVEN \ HooM To RAciNG-
SOME OF THE HORSES ENTERED.
Judging from the number AMI quality Of the
horses entered in the to be rotteI ana paced
at the spring and fAl meetings Of the New-York
Driving club Ibis season harness racing has 20
ceived a boom By the recent legislation In this
State on the subject Of racetsack gambling. Many
meetings have been he'd at Feet"ooI Park dur
ing the years Of its existence but never
before the history OF the Old track has the out
look been iavorahl, for hgh-caSs sport and
financial profit TO the club in ls9, Last February
the stakes for the Grand Circuit meeting In August
closed with tn largest list Of entries secured by
any trotiing club in the Country this season. and
now tina; the entry books closed for the races
TO be tro,irl june ll-i. the same thing can be
saiI about the spring meeting At Fleetwood
TIL list Of entries given out yesterday. ana
It shows total Of I7s horses nominated 10 the
eleven contests on the programme; an average Of
sixteen prospective starters In each class. when
greatly exceeds the number - entries az other
stands in The Baltimore. Phld ielpha ami New
York Circuit Some Of the slow classes 10; green
horses have nllcu TO overlooking. the 2Z1 race for
,rotters having no les than tw,nty-'lght entries.
In the faster classes the number Is. OF course.
not 80 large bu, al IA. classes with the
single exception % the 2l3 rae fer trotirr' have
more than enough entries to lnsure spirited con
te..s In the 2l3 class ony four trottcfs have been
named. bu, they make UP IN qualit" what ihey lack
In numbers ami hofsemen say The race snouh be
on. OF the beat 81 N. series Judge Austin Ii@'.,
william Penn 2lg'.). Amboy enc. and Charley
{. ,9I3a.D among the beet cam7aigucrs IN their
class. ami that Judge Au'tlns d"fea; by Mef-
man Al Baltimore has shown that knapsaok Nc
carthy's gray iroi,er Is not nymciolc. the race
looks he open one with every horse having
a fighting chancs.
Nine good entered In IN. 2i5 class 'or
trotiers and the rnce ought % be a rouslng one,
with Norman G.i5ts). Gretchen Cliip and Arena
,2l5i., IN the field. Those who Norman beat
Judge Austin at baltimore las, week say the Ten
nessee tro,ter can beat 22. and Others equally COM
pet-n, to Judge that 2:i2 will not take the meas
ure Of this neat. speedy son Of Alcaniara Arena
2I5i.j. that J. ". Knox has been carefully point
ing for a race at the Gutenberg track across the
Hudson this spring
In the 2ls class trotting Little Tobe the son ~
Pamlico t2l0) looks Ike the beg, Of the fifteen en-
tries judging by his present form. bat there are
dozen Others In the neld that may improve enough
before the DAY OF the TO give the North Caro-
lima pony a beating
With Falkland. a Baltimore winner: Queen Allah.
a four-year-old from Buffalo. Of whose speed big
stories are afoat this season. National the fast
young son Of Wellington in Barney Demarest's
stable; Matte Hunter. good mare that belonged
TO Richard Croker before the Tammany chieran
took up with the runners and the local trotier Hal
van. owned By l.. T.. Levy. Ia the field - fifteen
the 2:2 trottng race the outlook Is
isng for a red hot contest with the heats We'll be-
low 25l
Among Tire twenty-five trotters In the 22i class
many local horses whose prospects look good
public form. One OF ia. iot IS The bay horse Jube
track. In Brooklyn. Others are William Simpsons
bay Quality, by Electionrer. Isaac Fleming
bay SnipnOs" by fyclCn". William HrOoks's
Tom Scott who number OF races Park
way. Fleetwood and other local trIcks last year.
Jacob Ruppcrts Kuprccht. by FdcOrie Wilkes out
Of the famous old campaigncI Kate Sprague. Aero
lite C2:25i., by Ortine. owned by Henry hughes OF
this city. Kathleen the big bay daughter OF Siran-
ger entered by Thomas II. Howard ~ Brooklyn.
and the fast young Nutshell by Bayonne
Prince. from The stable Of T.. X. Bovine. North
Branch y. j.
The heid in the 2g7 troiiing race j. mammoth
one. with such cracks among the lot as knapsac OK
McCarthys Anna Mace. BY Robert McGregor. "A
Moer's Fairport. who IL credited with a trial OF
2sA over the Parkway haf-mie track: E.mor f.
Stevens's Freedom. who took his record of Z9a as
q yearling ana the first colt 81 that age 10
Robert McGrceor; Daylight, Owned by T.. II Clar-
enden and trained by George II. Martin who gays
he drive the Of Starlight in 221 or better:
Fred Steinway's Edith r. W. II Brooks Gleason
James McClenahan's Jessie Clark l.. H. uurd's
Prince Is. and John Mct;uire's chris Lang
The 2:25 race for PAGERS Will carry "A good deal OF
interest TO local hOrsenen. inasmuch II brings
together two green PAGERS now In training Fleet
ruch gossip among the New-York trotting ira
ternity They are Argen'a. by Steinway. in the
stable Of Isaac Fleming and the converted trotter
Vdalia owned by Fred Gerken and trained by
Isaac Fleming Either mare can pace a part Of a
mile at better than 2:lo gait.