The evening times., 1896-05-21
CRACKS ARE In FINE FORM
Brooklyn Handicap Candidates
Given Plenty of Work.
Handspring May Not Start-HOrnpipe
and Sir Walter Greatly Improved
Since the Metropolitan.

New York. May 21.-All the Brooklyn
Handicap candidates have been worked
reasonably hard until the rainy spell set in
Now they are receiving whatever exercise
they can be given. With the race only
fortnight away, the work OF the horses
yields u fair line as TO the formation OF the
field for the $4,000 stake. Ten or 4
dozen horses may be expected TO start
in the Brooklyn Handicap. The present out
look is that the company will be drawn from
this list:
Henry of Navarro, 12S pounds; Clifford,
20. Keenan,, 122; Counter Tenor, 100; Laz-
zarone, 119; DR.. Rice, ZIG; Dorian, 10;
Sir Walter, 113; NaDSi Pooh, II =; Hornpipc,
III; Belmar, 10; st. Maxim, los, Hand
spring. 1O3, and Paladin. 93.
AS the Blemton stable has three repre-
sentatives-Henry OF Navarro, Dorian and
Keenan-and the Erie stable two, in LaZza-
rome and Nanki Pooh, it is probable that
one from each will prove anabsentee. Final
Trials, the latter part OF next week, will go
far toward separating the wheat from the
chaff.
Handspring, winner of the Withers, run
last Saturday at Morris Park, is doubtful
starter. In at 1O3 pou nds, and pilnted by
Simms at something like a pound over
weight, his chance OF winning looks de-
cidedly good. His impost at weight for
age in the Brooklyn woull be 107 pounds.
Mr. Z. ] Dwyer, owner OF Handspring,
when asked yesterday about the prospect
Of his colt starting in the Brooklyn, said:
1T all depends on how Handspring comes
out of the Belmont. If he has an easy win
N that stake, may conclude to start him
N the Brooklyn. The Belmont is run ON
Tuesday, June ., and the Brooklyn Thurs
lay, June 4. To give the colt Il hard race
Tuesday and then start with good old
horses the following Thursday would be
asking a great deal or him. At any rate it
s very early in the year to put a three
year-old against the best handicap horses
in training"
When Ben Brush won the Kentucky Derby
there was considerable Brooklyn Handicap
play on him in the winter books. AS Ben
Brush is expected tOTemain III the West until
Iul;. he cannot be placed in the probable
list of starters.
Henry of Navarro, Clifford, Counter Tenor,
Keenan,. Lazzarone, Sir Walter, Hornpipe,
| and Paladin are rapidly becoming fit. Both
Sir Walter and Hornppe are greatly i'm
Handicap, and Counter Tenor was not
harmed by that race. Counter Tenor was
handicapped in the Brooklyn at 15 pounds,
out by winning the Metropolitan heincurred
five-pound penalty.
Declarations from the Great Trial and
Double Event stakes of the Coney Island
Jockey Club have been announced. The
Great Trial is, with the exception of the
the year. Its value is $40, ,OOO, and t
will be run about July 4. The Double
Event, also for two-yearo olds. is worth
10000 The first event will be run
| June %, and the second event July IL.
Seventy-seven of the original n omina-
tions are eligible to start in the Greae t
Trial, and seventy-six in the Double Event
| C. j. Patterson's Western crack, Orna-
ment, is entered in both stakes
Great Trial declarations are: Marcus
| Days Mistral II, Tiger Cat and Catch
Fly: W. H. Forbes Conqueror. Edward
Frazer's Cavalero, j. R. & F p. Keene's
| Flying Squadron, John McCabe's John
| Corr, ]. Conroy and P. Dunno; j. E..
Madden's Robert Bonner, Stachelberg,
and Kelston; As II. & d. II. Morris Full
| Speed, j. Rupert, jr.'s Brierwood, East
| ertide and Concord; and Charles Head
Smiths Sir Enrol and Dictynna.
From the double event are: Broad Hollow
| stables The Squire and Aunt Sally; Brook
dale stables Gregale; Matt Byrnes' Sem
ator NJ; Marcus Daly's Mistrall II, Tiger
| Cat, and Catch Fly; W H. Forbes Moslem,
Edward Frazer's Cavalero: Goughacr es
stables Spoons; ]. R. and F. P. Keene's
Voter, Calico, and Royal Rose: John Nc
Cabe's John Corr, j. Conroy, and P.
| Dunno: W. OBJ. Macdonough's st. Dun
stan, lamar II, and Cbarlemagne; ]. E.
Madden's Robert Bonner. Charlie Christy,
and Stachelberg; Oneck stables Silver
Brook, A II. and d. II. Morris Full Speed,
| J Rupert jr.'s Brierwood, Eastertide, and
| Concord; Charles Head Smiths Sir Enrol,
Incetatus, and Bragaione, and W. NJ,
| Wallace's The Merrinac.