The times., 1900-12-30
RICH PRIZE FOR RUNNERS
Coney Island Jockey Clubs Cham
pion Next Years Big Event.
Names OF All the star FOur-Year-
OIds of 1901 and Most of the Hest
Thrcc-NcRr-Oids on Last Seasons
Forms on the Roster-Beau Gal
liant Declared Out as a YeariinS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29-The Coney Island
Jockey Clubs Annual Champion Race, $685.
| Geo guaranteed, distance two and one-quar-
ter miles, will next year take its place as
the greatest of American horse races. a
place it is destined to hold from now on,
because the distance is popular and the
purse is sufficiently large to attract the
star thoroughbreds of the country
All the good horses of the older di vision,
except Imp, Kinley Mack, Batten, Banas-
! tar, and Jack Point, are in 1t, as we'll as
the two-yearolds OF the season just ended
II is not an exaggeration to say that no
| race ever offered by an American racing
association ever had so attractive roster
| II will be always q better race than last
! seasons, because SO many more Iorg -dis-
/ tance races than were offered last summer
have been instituted recently, AMI horse
men will have an incentive to save their
/ good horses. They will no longer be com
Ie'led to run them to death in ruinOus
| sprints Of one mile and one mile and
quarter and one mile and three furlongs.
| as they have been in the past.
The last declarations. so far as next sea-
| son is concerned have left about $50 horses
| In the race not counting the coming two
! year-olds named as yearlngs, and who may
| begin TO run in 1903. Fifty-two of these
; eligibies may be said TO be first ciass.
Many of them have shown high fJrm in
actual races, others in peivdia work.
The most formidable Of the new horses
are the coming three and four-year- olis.
There are seventeen Of the latter. Several
OF them were eligible last season, but CiI
not start for one reason or another The
Z -
Prince of Melbourne, winner of the Law
renee Realization OF 1900; Deimel & Far
reli's 1ldrim, winner of the Belmont Stakes
or 1900; James r. keene's Disguise VINO
ran third to Diamond Jubilee and Simon
Dale in the British Derby; Pierre Loril-
lard's David Garrick last years winner of
the Annual Champion and the cOnquerorf
of Ethelbert; Albert Featherstone's Mes
fnerfst and Missionary; Mr. kesnes Cha
cornac August Belmont's Kilogran and
Brigadier. William C. Eustis Knight of
Rhodes. Richard Roches Standing, Pat
Dunne's Alcedo and Reminder. and John
Sanford's Rochton. Besides these, all of
whom have regulations made by actual
racing, Capt. Sam Brown has three Trou-
badour colts, Ctiquasaboq. Suqualak ard
Mondoro, that haye worked we'll and rlay
train on.
There is perhaps little chance that
either Disguise or David Garrick will
start, because they are both in England
David Garrick was sent over by Mr.. Lor-
iilard last fall, fortnight after the vic
tory over Ethelbert, and Disguise has not
been in America since he was yearling.
As both Mr.. Keene and Mr. Lorillard as
pire to win next years Ascot Cup IL is
not likely that either of them will be
brought back
II is more than likely that half n dozen
of others will be sent along. Last year
Mr.. Beard did not start Prince of Mel
bourne in the Brighton Cup race, in which
ON public form the Bramble colt seemed
to have an excellent chance, because he
wanted to win the first Annual Champion.
Prince of Melbourne did not start because
he fell lame a fortnight before the race
vas run. Next year Mr. Beard may have
better luck. If Mr.. Beard carries out his
present intentions he will reserve Prince
of Melbourne for just such races as the
Annual Champion.
The Bramble colt has shown a particular
liking for races over distance OF ground
and now that there are many of them
it is no longer needful to chase him out in
killing handicaps like the Metropolitan,
Brooklyn, Suburban, and Brighton When
Deimel Farrell bought Ildrim from Eu-
gene Leigh at Brighton they hoped to be
able to start in the Annual Champion, but
failed because Ildrim's hard spring cam
paign had knocked him out and Tom
Welch could not get him on edge again.
There is small chance that the same i'll
luck will attend Welchs efforts next year
Ildrim has had practically nothing to do
since he was thrown out of training for
the Annual Champion. He is at Mill
stream, y. j.. now and is developing into
a big, muscular horse. These two colts
are the most famous of last seasons
great three-year -olds. but Rcckton, Kilo-
gram Brigadier. Standing, and Mission
airy showed good form in distance races
and may reasonably be expected to train
on.
Mesmerist, the champion two-year- old
of 1899 and Chacornac, the Futurity win
ner, were disappointments last year, but
there is a chance that they too. may
climb back into the frst-class division.
Ogden, the Futarity winner of 1886, IL will
be remembered, was poor three-year
old in 1897, but in 1898 he acquired first
class form again and beat Ornament sew
eral times The troubles of Mesmerist
and Chacornac may be attributed 10 the
same cause that ruined Ogden as a lhree-
year old. Like the Kllwarln colt, they
were trained too rapidly in the early
spring and raced over the difficult up
and down hill courses at Morris Park be-
fore their muscles were hard
Most metropolitan turf patrons helieve
that Mesmerists defeats were due TO his |
ground. but Albert Featherstone and his |
trainer, Julius Bauer. say not They be- |
lieve that II he had been handled differ |
emily he would have made as good q |
slayer as metropolitan turf patrons ever !
saw and offer to bet that they will prove |
SO next year. Chacornac wrenohed one of |
the muscles of his back so badly in The |
race for the Withers that Jimmie Rowe |
thought that he would never be able TO |
run again.
Happily the trouble was not so serious |
as that Chacornac got well again in six |
months and might have raced last wn.er.
Nest metropolitan turf patrons have about |
The same opinion of ChacOrnac that they |
entertain toward Mesmerist but Rowe |
say. that they are all wrong. He eXpec s
the Juvenal colt to develop into one OF
the fastest four year-olds of the season.
Among the celebrated Annual Champion
three y ear -olds (after January u are |
Richard r. Wilson, jr's., The Parader,
william C. Whitney's Ballyboo Bey, Elk
horn. and Holstein; r. Wyndham Walden's |
Contend, Hennen g. Dave Morris Smile, |
Richard Cookers Bellario. Julius Fleisch- |
mann's Irritable, Charles T. Patterson's !
All Green, ana James r. Keene's Com ,
mand0, Olympian, MONDAY, and Running |
Stream. Like Disguise and David Gar |
rick Olympian, Elkhorn, Holstein, Run |
ming Stream and MONDAY are in Eng !
land, but they are still Annual Champion |
eliciblos, and, since their owners have |
left them in, any or all OF them may !
be brought back next year to start. Com |
mando is here. Metropolitan turf patrons |
know all about all these horses except |
Running Stream. Running Stream is o !
Domino Hlly. dam Laughing Water, who |
never raced in this country. She had to |