The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-05
RzoIse.
pzorse~sn Nominate riany Candidates FOR the
Rich Eastern Events.

Rich Enntern Hventh.
Unless something Unforeseen happens, the
coming season on Eastern race tracks should DO
a memorable one for horsemcn and the thou
sands OF outsiders VIII love TO see good thor
ouRhbreds compete for rich stakes. Tho pro-
gramnes issued by tho leading associations
have found owners generously responsive, and.
unless the dreaded blue pencil =" makes Its ap-
pearance before the game starts at BenninGs In
April, every fixed event should DO signalizod by
largo and representative fields.
Entries are still pouring In for the Brighton
Beach stakes, and although the lists will re-
main open for q few days moro, the aggregate Is
already close to four figures. At Secretary
Sass Office yesterday 1t was learned that
twenty-one nominations are in for tho big event
Of the programme. the Brighton Cup. This Is
regarded as n surprising return In view Of the
fact that the race Is over the unusually long
distance. of two miles and q quarter, and that
tho conditions practically bring all candidates
together on the weight for are scale.
tho eye Is that Of A. II. D. Morris's The FriSr,
who won tho event last year after q sensational
race with Jero. Dunne's Sunny slope. The latter
pair should DO a Zig card I'M Itself. However,
as Tenderloin sportsmen say, there are others"
Howard Mann, Marcus Days noted colt Ham
burg, August Belmont's shIfty horse Don do
Gently purchased In the name of w. q. Whitney
and entered BY Sidney PaRet, and some high
class three-year-olds. Tho full entry to date isi
Hamburg. scotch Plaid, Hsndball. Mirthfui.- The
Deck. semper Ego. Tom Cromwell. and Ben Eder.
Most of the foregoing and some other smart
performers appear among tho twenty;nine en-
mile and a quarter. They include White Frost.
the colt reported to have run q mile in 1:39i2i In
m nns eei Hs ~os 'a TraF psRSiaf B Bsn0f Hoiia a. ofs sIr
Walter, DR.. Catlett, George Keene. Lehman,
Presbyterian, and Algol.
OF entries for the various stake events which
viii be run of at the spring and autumn meet.
Morris Park, and those to be decided at the
spring meeting of tho Washington Jockey Club
fflI Bsn fairIy wa The ss ss1 nat on at ,n Morris r I.I Park so are
still due. however. Seventeen fixed events will
and New Rochelle have each received slxty.two
entries. and the High Weight Serial Handicaps
at the autumn meeting. The Champagne Stakes
has attracted thirty-four and tho Municipal
The Washington Jockey Club has ten stakes
on for the spring meeting at Bennings and they
havo all filed well. The entries range from
in the Congressional, for two-ycar-olds. Tho
totals for both meetings up to last night are:
WsshingtCn Spring Msetins-Asl,nston. 20: Con.
Federal. 2e; washington Handicap. as: Maiden
hurdle Race. 10; Maryland Hurdle Handicap, u;
Westchester Spring he~eting-Gaety. SO; Bouquet.
o.; laureate, 40; Larchmont, 10; Bayohsster, Sit
Van Nest, rs; Pocantco, 81; Metropolitan Handicap.
2s; Harlem. 20; ToboGgan, 20; New Rochelle. 90;
Hig Mweight Serial Handicaps. III Amateur Cup, -;
Hurdle Handicap, Ell; New York Steeplechase Handi-
cap. "a; International Steeplechase Handicap. 22.
Westchester Autumn Acknowledgements, "a;
White Plains. 99; Jerome Handicap, IA; Manhattan
Handicap. 80; Municipal Handicap, 8.
The horses TO BIO shipped from this port to
swell the Keene string abroad will. It Is stated.
be all thrce-year-olds. as follows:
Chestnut nlly Esutch Girl: by Pepper and Salt
Cerito; bay flly Blushing Beauty, by Fitzsimon-
Princess Caroline; bay Ally Maid of Erin. by Amphion
-Mavourneen; chestnut colt Easter Gift, by CANDLE
mas-Ella T.; chestnut colt Cock Robin. by Tea Tray
aCasket, and a bay or brown nlly by Chorlster-
Brown Beauty.