The Washington times., 1902-08-30
MesSrs. Keene's Entry in
Favor for Today's
Race.
FIELD TOO Big FOR THE TRACK
Rules of the Course Limit
Starters to Twenty
four.
LIST WILL BE CUT DOWN
Demand That Whitney, Whitney &
Duryea and Madden Horses Be
Bunched as One Stable in the Betting
Irish Lad Carries Weight.

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SHEEPSHEAD BAY. L. l.. Aug. %
What promises to brew into something
of more consequence than the proverbia
tempest in a teacup is the difficulty
Clerk of the Course and Official Handi-
capper Vosburgh is having in keeping
the Futurity field down to the limit Of
twenty-four starters.
According to the Jockey Club regula-
tions. each horse must be allotted five
feet of space. Twenty-four horses
would take up just 100 feet across the
Sheepshead Bay track. AS the width OF
the track is 1874 feet, not another horse
could be squeezed in in conformity with
the Jockey Club laws.
With the bugle call for the Futurity
less than twenty -four hours away, nine
teen owners have expressed a deter
mination to start nominations for the
$4,000 prize. Their entries. in the ag-
gregate. number thirty horses.
Twenty -four to Start.
It is announced that just twenty-four
horses will be allowed to line up, and
that the order of selection will be first
nominated, first selected.
The ruling is causing a good deal of
uneasiness among owners and trainers,
for colts like Savable. the pride of John
A. Drake and the West; Invincible, On.
atas. Aceful, Golden Maxim. and White
Chapel were nominated later than Sow
ereign, Hurstbourne. Blue Ribbon. Eu-
genie Burch, and other less formidable
competitors.
However, before II o'clock tomorrow
morning number of trainers will think
twice before giving up 1850 for the priv
ilege OF starting colt or flly without
a probable chance to win, and the field
will consequently be reduced to prob
ably eighteen starters.
This is the way all racing enthusiasts
devcutly wish the impending entangle-
ment may anravel itself. Then there is
a question as TO the propriety OF coup
ling entries of w C. Whitney, John E.
Madden, and Messrs. Whitney Dur
ysa.i4.S f<tfSft- 4s
The racing world-owners, trainers.
big ground operators. the layers them
selves, and the general run of the tai
ent-are clamoring for the grouping ot
all the horses trained and handled by
Madden.
After 7. E. Madden.
II is held, with a coed deal of plausi-
bility. that since Madden instructs the
jockeys as TO The manner of riding tLeir
mounts, such horses should be sent out
as if from one stable. For instance.
Madden might tell Redfern to use Merry
Reel as a pacemaker in favor of Whit
ney & Duryea's Aceful. or W. C. Whit
rey's Payne. This imbroglio will also
be Strengthened out before post time to-
morrow
The attendant scenes and incidents of
tcmorrow's Futurity renewal will illus
trate better than did the Brooklyn.
Suburban, and Brighton HanCicaps the
prosperity OF the times and the -four
ishing condition Of the metropolitan
turf Less than Il, 900 persons saw last
years Futurity. renewal. On long rows
of tables at the Coney Island Jockey
Club Offices last night Secretary Cor
nelius Fellowes had $1,000 pasteboard
badges laid out in rows.
Well sell more than 60.000 of them
tomorrow at from rs cents to S5 apiece
with fair weather." remarked the genial
official, as he gazed upon the red. white
blue. and green stacks. Under bright
blue skies regular EPSON" exodus
from town will be seen. The dollar-a-
day clerk will come bustling and jos
Ting with the 81 ,000-a- minute multi
millionaire.
Big Crowd Expected.
II will no tho eaua enthusiastic and
overwhelming crowd which gave Sub
urban Day a spectacular coloring. never
10 be forgotten, only that IL will be
still more buoyant and numerous. The
Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. o. H. p.
Belmont. and coterie from the social
colony at Newport will add eclat to the
clubhouse assemblage
President Wheelock, OF the Metro
politan Turf Association, says over 270
layers will weigh in. This will be
record. Lowering clouds or driZzling
rain would change all this. But
Weather Forecaster Emery is reassur-
ing He predicts cool. clear weather
for the Futurity. That means a fast,
dry track and the greatest race in his
tory.
Winner Hard to Pick.
lnl6 gtdA GAuAaAs a ildiu "
talk about The early season cham
pions. one and all, seem to have trained
off. Mizzen, Dalesman, Africander,
Hurstbourne, Artvis, and Mexican are no
mere formidable than at least eight
other candidates. There is no one dis
tinctive choice. Any form student can
90 back in the dope" and point out
races which would give four-ffths OF the
starters golden chances TO land the
race
The time trials and races over Sara
toga's lightning fast track are confusing,
tco. Skilful. SavabIe. Lord of the Vale,
Payne. and Lelpsic worked at the Spa
fast enough TO walk over 1:13 race
runners = The actual race tells a diff
ferent tale After all, class and quality
potent considerations.
Five persons are more likely 10 be
right than three persons. To the indi-
vidual looking for a winner, then. the
advice to fall in behind the band wagon
of public opinion is opportune. Just at
this hour the public fancy is for the
Keene stable.
Almost every trainer believes that