New-York tribune., 1896-08-29
OGDEN AND ORNAMENT.
TWO FAMOUS COLTS TO MEET TO-DAY.
EACH HAS MANY ADMIRERS AND THE RESULT

EACH HAS MANY ADMIRERS AND THE RESULT
Is AWAITED WITH THE KEENEsT INTEREST.
Seven races, including a steeplechase. are to be
run of the Sheepshead Bay racetrack this ater-
noon The chief feature on the card is the tiatpush
Stakes, in which six wo-year-ods are named as
starters. furlongs. Ogden and Ornament
with 40 pounds EACH should be an attraction tha'
should cause many thousands of persons to visit
the racetrack. Salmak who was purchased D!
Matthew Byrne for $500 at the sale OF Troworidge
g. Co.'S horses Thursday, is also in the ist OF
starters He will carry only 100 ponds, as ne is~a
maiden and will receive all the allowances Inc
Friar will have ll5 pounds. having picked up
penalty by winning stake race since August 10
Roy Carruthers and Panmure are the other horses
named. There may be some additions TO the list
when the is called.
ogden won the Futurity Stakes with consummate
ease and has been hailed a champion. Orna-
ment because of his previous performances was
looked upon as an almost certain winner or the
Futurity but he could do no better than to finish
second Hence the meeting of these two colts in the
Flatbush Stakes is likely 10 cause some lively spec
ulation and to excite great interest
IL IS a great pity that ReQuital and Clifford are
not named starters in the Omnum Handicap.
meeting of two such highclass horses at mile ana
n furlong would certainly have aroused most in
tense interest and materially increased the gate
receipts But as six horses have accepted the I'M
posts assigned to them. the is likely to he well
contested. Buck Massie. Ferrier, Lehman Zen
Eder Dutch Skater and Muskaonge, at the weights,
should make an exciting race
There are two races for maiden two-year-olds over
the Futurity course, because the first race on the
programme received twenty-seven entries. The
management divided the race. and consequently
fields of thirteen and fourteen named starters
in the first two races on the programme.
The steeplechase has ten entries. and should fur
nish the spectators with some brilliant exhibitions
of ground and lofty tumbling on the whole to-days
card is extremely attractive. and IL is certain that
a large crowd will visit the racetrack.
The admirers OF Ogden feel confident that ne VIII
defeat Ornament in the Fatbush Stakes to-day. as
he defeated him in the Futurty while the partisans
of Ornament most sanguinc in their anticipa-
tions that Ornament will reverse the Futurlty re-
suit. Ii is reported that TuberVille who rode Og-
den In the Futurity. will again have the mount on
gagged to ride Ornament. Every turfman admits
that ogden and Ornament are the best of American
two-ycar- -Olds. The interesting question is which
is really superior to the other in all the
elements that decide supremacy on the turf. Ihat
question ought TO be settled finally and concusively
in the Flatbush Stakes this afternoon at Sleeps
head Bay and many thousands of people Will watch
the determination OF this issue by the stern arb-
Irament of actual racing at seven furlongs severe
distance for two-y year-olds journey long enough
TO test all the courage. all the speed ana all the
STAYING power both OF Ogden and of ornament
Racing men in every part of the country have been
dsputing the relative merits OF Ogden and
Ornament since the Futurity was run and each
has big army Of earnest. hopeful and confident
followers. Therefore. the race at Sheepshead Bay
this afternoon will be by far the most interesting
contest in whole history Of the Flatbush Stakes
and will be worthy the most eager attention OF a
host of spectators.
Here the entries: