The evening times., 1896-08-10
NEXT sITURDlF
Will Be Worth About $50, 600
80 = Z 80
to the Winner.
POOR CLASS OF STARTERS
Ornament Looked Upon as the Hest
Youngster Among the Number to
: Face the Flag Don De Oro May
Not t-Plenty Of High Glass
Horses VIII be at sheepshend.

Horses Will BE at Sheepshe I'D.
New York, Aug. 1O.-This will be the
best week Of the summer meeting at Brigh-
ton Beach and the beginning of the a,i-
tulnn racing season at sheepshead Pay.
The Futurity, the great race of the year
for o-year-oids, is to he run on the OPEN
ing day Of The COney Island Jockey Clubs
fail meeting, on August l 8, and with the
first OF the autumn handicaps for ailaged
cainpaigners also on the program, those
who go TO the fashionable Long Island
course next Saturday will sec two OF the
most important races OF the season decided
1t cannot be said that the ninth renewal
OF the rich Futurity stakes gives promise OF
brilliant race. Turfinen generally agree
that the two-year-oids OF 1896, taken as
whole, Are Of inferior class compared with
those Of 1898 und other years.
30 far as known, there is no ReQuitai, no
Handspring, or Hastings, or One-I-Love
among the juvenile divisions this season;
and. worse than that, q majority OF the
best two-year-olds in sight are not eligible
to start for the big prize next Saturday.
:. oRNAMENTIN GOOD FORM.
On public form Charles F. Patterson,s IS
races In the Double Event, seems to have
the great two-year-old race at his mercy,
provided he goes TO the post fit and right,
and runs up 10 his earlier form. winged
Foot. who alone defeated the chestnut son
OF Order and Victorine at the Sheepshead
Bay July meeting, is not in the Futurity,
and even II she were eligible TO start, Nc
Cafferty's bloodlike finy would hardly cut
figure in the contest unless the poor
form yEybSC11 a s,,h d .
at Brighton Beach last week should be
suddenly reversed under the stimulating
influence OF $4,000 prize.
The Friar, who forced Ornament out to
neck In the last race for the Double Event,
10 another notable absentee in the Futurity
field, rs are the good fiilies CIeophus and
Suisun OF Michael +. Dwyer's stable:
Lithos. Rotterdam, Haphazard, George
kessler. Salmak, ArbuckIe. Fun Speed.
Successful. Casseopia, DR.. Jim. Tragedian,
Nanah, Burlesque, and number OF other
Eastern two-year-olds that would seem to
have fighting chance In high society at
the Bay. slS
Next TO the young Kentuckian, who owns
Ornameut, Mr.. Belmont apparently holds
the strongest hand, with the two Rayon
Dor colts. Don De 0ro and Octagon. both
OF whom are eligible 10 start Don De
ORC has sbown as much, Ii DOT more. speed
be should go 10 the post In condition to
do his best and then do It. few Eastern
hprsemen would expect 10 see him beaten
II Is reported. however, that the speedy.
suiky youngster Is not at his best fust
now. aud 0ctagon, the runner-up in the
first race of the Double Event, may be the
main reliance of the Blemton stable.
DON DE ORC A SICK HORSE.
The intricate conditions governing the
Futurity rake Don De oro the top weight,
with l2i pounds to shoulder octagou is
In at los, aud Ornament Will carry either
lib or 1i6, depending ON the extent OF
the penalty which the Kentucky colt in
Cured In the Lexington Futurity last
spring.
The racing guides place the value OF the
event at $1,000, but Mr.. Patterson SAYS
the actual value was something less than
$5 900. The matter Is one of great i'm
portance to the owner OF Ornament, for
he must make the correct weight at his
own risk
Should he send his colt to the post with
1l3 pounds up, assuming that to be the
correct weight, and theu discover after the
race that>a three-pound penalty was In
CURED in the Lexington Futurity, his mis-
take might cost him something like
500 900, for Ornament would be disqual-
ified ii he won in the same way that
uuIOu, WQO IlnlSueU
second to His Highness in the $40 900 Fu-
turity of1S91, lost second money to York
Vile Belle.
If Ornament carries 113 pounds, it is al
most certain that Snapper Garrison, who
rode the colt in such mastery style when
he won the second race OF the Double
Event, will not have the mount in the Fu-
iurlty, as it is very doubtful III he can get
down to 113 pounds.
One of the three youngsters that may
represent the Brookiaie stable in the big
race Is the green colt Destiny, by Maca- :,
room, out OF Retribution, the dam of Re-
quitai. Another is the bay filly Distinction,
who ran Winged Foot TO a head in the
Vernai stakes at the Sheepshead Bay spring
meeting, and whosw as third to Suisun and
Buriesque when they ran a dead heat at the.
same meeting. 'iuiisia
The filly has shown steadily improved;
form since her first appearance. and she
may be a factor In the contest next Satur-
day. The Keene stable will probably be
represented by either st. Cloud or Rhodesla.
Marcus DAILY is reported to have likely
candidate in the imported brown colt Og-
den, now at Saratoga, in charge of John s.
Campbell. The youngster has not yet start
ed In the East, but he has won several races
at Butte and Anaconda, In the Montana
circuit, andit is said that his chance is we'll
liked by those who know him best.
PROSPECTIVE STARTERS.
Mr. Days Cockernony and Scottish
Chieftain are also eligible to start. Chal-
lenger Meadowthorpe, HI Daddy, Lady
Aottle and Our Johnny are some OF the
other prospective starters, but it is diff
cult to figure out possible victory for
any OF them on their past performances
The list OF entries for the fall handicap.
which Is to be run astthe second race next
Saturday, shows number of higli-class
campaigneB for the handicapper to deal
with. Among the twenty-seven named are
Requital, One Love, Ben Brush, Buck Mas
sic, Gotham, Sir Walter, Clifford, Intermis-
sion. Lehman, Rubicon and Irish Reel.
Weights for the race win be announced
Thursday.
Only one stake race, the Electric handi-
cap, remains to be decided at the Brighton
Beach meeting this week. The distance is
five furongs, and the entries include Cleo
phus, Winged Foot, Haphazard, Lithos,
A. zure, Salvado, Cockernony, Scottish Chief
tain, Valor and other two-year-olds OF
class.
A sort of Futurity trial has been ar
ranged for Tuesdays card, to be run as
the fifth race, the association offering
purse Of $700 for two-year-olds, with a
view Of bringing out some Of the Futurity
candidates. George Kessler, Rhodesia and
others are promised as starters, with Cleo
phus to serve as the trial horse.
SHOT BY A DISCARDED LOVER.