Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-23
BROOKLYN HANDICAP.
Large Field, With Herbert, Advance
Guard and Blues Favorites.

Since the great Hanover won the first
Brooklyn handicap N 1887. no Brooklyn
handicap was ever run for which there
were SO many highly tried and widely
touted candidates assthere are for the six
tenth renewal of the classic race that will
be run tomorrowsyon the opening day of
the Gravesend spring meeting. About tif-
teen starters will go to the post. They In
clude Herbert, Advance Guard, Alcedo, Her
nando, Blues. Bennibert, Watercure, The
Regent, Dom Paul Monograph. Argregor,
Roehampton, Etlifs, Fly Wheel, Pentecost
and Northern Sthr. OF these, four are
three year-olds, hut it looks as if none of
them is likely to duplicate the feat of Con-
roy, who won last year, scoring the first
three-year-old triumph in a Brooklyn
handicap.
A brief survey Of the field brings one to
the conclusion that several Of the candi-
dates must be excluded from the probabili-
ties on the basis of their unpromlsing per-
formances in races this season. These are
Perry Belmont's Fly Wheel, j. E. Madden s
Pentecost, Alcedo, the winner of last year S
Suburban; the Fleischmann's Bonnibert, j.
G. Follansbee's Roehampton. and Northern
Star who seems to be only Splinter.
Monograph, a four-year-old. owned by
William Hayes a Kentuckian, will carry
only 90 pounds. and Travelled the distance
in 2.05A Wednesday, carrying seven pounds
more than his handicap weight. If he can
duplicate this tomorrow he will take a lot
of beating. William Lakeland's The Re-
gent is reported to have been working in
phenomenal time, but on last years form
he is badly outclaSSed.
Argregor and Watercure have been raced
all winter in California, and it will be
strange if they do not show the results of
their hard campaigning. Alcedo ran bad
race in the Metropolitan. and does not seem
to be within many pounds of his 1901 Subur-
ban form. fernando was dangerous morse
in any company last fall, but he has not
been heard from of late, and Is doubtful
starter. Bonnibert has not shown high
class since his two-year-old form. His
stable reports good work In private. but his
races have been bad and he does not look
dangerous. Ethics is only selling platter,
although he won the Carter handicap at
AQueduct
There remain Dom Paul, Blues. Advance
Guard and Herbert. Dom Paul won the
Arverne stakes at Aqueduct from fair
field, but Margraviate and Col. Padden beat
him later in the Queens county stakes, and
he has not raced since He is reported to
have worked most encouragingly for tomor-
rows big race and has had a special prepa-
ration, but his chances do not look espe-
cialy promising. Blues has appeared but
once this year, and DR.. Riddle beat him at
a mile and sixteenth at Morris Park. 1t
was good race for a first one, though,
and as the son Of Sir Dixon is horse of
the first class he must be expected to finish
in the first three.
Between Advance Guard and Herbert
there is little to choose. Both are raters,
slow beginners who finish with determine
ton and gameness raised to the highest
power. Herbert ran fine race in the Met
rupOlitan, finishing second to the lightly
weighted Arsenal He has since worked the
Brooklyn handicap distance in most encour-
aging fashion. Advance Guard has run
several tiptop races at Morris Park, defeat
ing Heno yesterday at mile and an eighth,
and finishing a few days before only a
length behind Water Color when the latter
broke the track record for a mile. Unless
some of the dark horses develop phenome-
nal speed and courage it is fair to expect
that Advance Guard and Herbert will be
fighting it out at the end with Blues close
up If the track is heavy Herbert's chances
will be improved II