The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30
THE RACE OF THE SEASON
Contest for Supremacy Among
the Brilliant Stars of'the Turf.
DETAILSNEARLY ARRANGED
Banaster, Ethelbert, Admiration and
Voter to Struggle for Honors
Candidates Carry 10 Pounds
Below the Scale.

The final details of a race that will
send the blood of all lovers of the
thoroughbred coursing through their
veins and cause the racing season in
the East of 1899 to live long in turf
annals will be arranged shortly 1t
will be a struggle for supremacy be-
tween Banaster, Ethelbert, Admiration
and Voter. This quartette of equine
giants will clash some time during the
Sheepshead Bay meeting. The distance
to be seven furlongs. So far as ar
ranged the conditions are $500 each,
with $4,000 added, the winner take all.
Another condition does away with the
starting machine for this event. as
Banaster win not break to the barrier.
So the famous rivals will be dispatched
in the old fashioned way.
1t was also stipulated in the prelim-
mary arrangements that the cand-
dates should carry 10 pounds below
the scale. This would make the
weights as follows: Voter and Banas-
ter, 1913 pounds each; Admiration and
Ethelbert, us pounds each.
Banaster has made more turf his
tory than usually falls to the lot of
4-year-old. He is owned by one of
the best and truest of sportsmen, w.
H. Clark, and in his owners opinion
should have won the Suburban.
The son of Farandoe and Blessing
began the season by running unplaced
in the Metropolitan Handicap. His
next effort was in the Toboggan Handi-
cap, which he won in the fast time
of 1:2Sh. His next appearance was
in the Brooklyn Handicap. which he
won in such imposing fashion that he
& faUnritp
for the Suburban.
1t is matter of history how Ban
aster was left at the post and how
his owner, w. H. Clark, blamed Maher,
who had the mount, for the horses
failure to get off The jockey club did
not think the evidence strong enough
to convict Maher of fraud and upheld
the stewards of the meeting, who let
him go with brief suspension.
1t was Mr.. Clark's intention, says
the New York Telegraph, to keep Ma
her to his contract for two years, and
not permit him to ride. In this how
ever, he yielded to the voices of friends
and gave the jockey his freedom. Ban
Rstar has not started since, and his
temperance in public will be an event
of itself
James r. Keene's Voter, a son of
Friar's Balsam and imported Mavour-
neen, has an unbeaten record so far
lowers as invincible.
This horse has a Metropolitan Handi-
cap to his credit, having captured the
prize in 1897 Since then Voter has had
campaign in England where he did
not cover himself with glory.
He has not lowered any track rec
ords this season like Banastar, but has
won all Of his races without having
been really extended
Ethelbert is the champion of his
age. He has placed the Lawrence
Realization Stakes, among other rich
prizes, to Perry Belmont's credit. He
has shown a disposition to pick up
weight and win in almost any kind of
company. His last race, however, was
not equal to his previous form, and
In the opinion of many he showed
signs of staleness.
Admiration is an unusually fleet and
consistent filly. She has already prov
ed victorious in a match race, having
lowered the colors of May Hampstead
=at Sheepshead Bay in a mile event fol
$1,000 a side and S. 600 added.
This FLY is owned by w. c. Whitney
and runs in the colors and name OF
sydney Paget She is a daughter OF
Kingston and Hypocrite, and so fan
has proved herself to be a worthy rep.
resentative of the Brown Whirlwind
The race, if all four candidates go tc
the post fit and well (and there is mo-
a scintilla of doubt but that they viii
either be in the shape of the proverbia
fiddle or not face the starter), will BIZ
an extremely open affair. Admira tior
has awonderful turn of speed for the
distance, and feet as Voter is at dis.
tances of a mile or less, he will have
2 all his work cut out to hold the filly
safe. A mile or less has, until the