New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-29
THIS IS FUTURITY DAY.
FINE FIELD FOR THE RACE
Hamburg Belle FaUorite-Tracl
SJozU and Surprises Likely.

This is Futurity day Compared to 1t in the es-
tInation of racing men all other days on the cal
endar are merelye Monday washdays This after
at She epshead Bay the best two-year-olds the
present season has produced will struggle down
the six furlongs of the Futurity Course for the
richest prize the American turf has to offer To
the victor this year it means in the neighborhood
of $4,000. Nineteen youngsters, representing thir-
teen owners have been named in the overnight
list Of starters OF the thirteen trainers who
splashed through the mud last night to have
last look at their youngsters IT is safe to assume
that at least thirteen of them would each rather
see his animal win this afternoon than himself
TO become President
The rain of yesterday has not only caused many
beautiful air castles which have been in course or
construction for months to crumble, but has made
necessary a complete revision of the elaborately
compiled dope" of the handicappers. The track
of a necessity now must be slow and heavy. A
blast furnace could not make 1t otherwise. Under
the conditions which will exist form will be at a
discount. Any of the possible nineteen start
ers has a chance The light weighted youngsters
will receive moro consideration than they might
otherwise have obtained. The possible exception
may be the Haggin FLY Hamburg Belle which will
carry the orange and white of Sydney Paset. One
hundred and fourteen pounds the minimum impost,
will be carried by Hamburg Belle, Audience and
Little EN-.
The preliminary or future" betting shows that
spectators have considered this chestnut daugh-
ter Of Hamburg as a factor not to be overlooked.
She is one Of the few youngsters of the year that
have shown ability to take up stake weight and
win with 1t in high class company. A week ago
she won a fve-and-a-half furlOng sprint at Sara
toga with such ridiculous ease that many men who
saw her performance decided that she was good
enough to be intrusted with their money, and
many have been the pay play wagers made
her since that she has become virtually ia
vorite.
Yesterday the odds quoted against her In future
books ranged from to l to to l. Last night.
however. word came from Sheepshead Bay that
the flIy an extremely doubtful starter, and
the odds consequently receded apreciably Her dis
tinguished sire could handle himself in the mud
or in any sort of going. but whether this quality
has been handed down to her seems a good deal of
1 problem The FLY will be ridden by Fuller. who,
when he is at his best, has few superiors on the
turf
All Of the stables owned by men whose wealth
enables them to place racing in tie list. of diver
sions have candidates entered for to-days running
of the Futurity. James r. Keenes colors may be
carried by any of four youngsters. by all of
them. 1t is not at all improbable, in fact. that
Jimmie Rowe. the trainer, will send them all
to the post. When it comes to developing Flu
turity winers the owner of the Castleton Stud has
displayed good deal of the witchery that has
characterized his labors in Wall Street. We've got
to beat Keene'' has become axiom among
trainers when Futurity probabilities discussed.
This year his material consists Of the brown
colt Delhi son Of Ben Brush out of the
Veva; Israelite chestnut of Isidor-Starlight;
Kohnoor, by Kingston-RoyaI Gem. and the
Kingston Ally Dovecote. Delhi has demonstrated
his right in the Futurity by his victory in
the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga. He has beaut-
full way of going; his courage has been tested and
not found wanting. and yet. according to the whis-
perings of the railbirds it is not Delhi but Is
raclite that the shrewd trainer expects to~see in
front this afternoon The Isidor colt is a maiden
and the public has yet to see him with colors up,
but from Sheepshead Bay there have come amaz-
ing tales OF the way the colt has been eating up
the furlongs
John Z. Madden has been there or Whereabouts
in many Futurities that his entries always
mand following His available material to-day
consists Of Adbell by Plaudit-Nahma: Gettysburg
a Hamburg colt he bought recently from Michael
Murphy, and The Minute Man. by Juvenal-Semper
Paratus.
AS Plaudit has taken the place of Mirthfu at
Hamburg Place it is said that Mr.. Madden is very
keen to Abdel win to-day. The Kentucky deal
er, by the way, announced TO his friends Sara
toga that he was going to land this years Fu-
Captain s. s. Brown in the Ben Brush young
ster Broomstick has colt that has several times
been acclaimed the two-year-old OF his year. only
to have the title withdrawn after number of de-
feats. Broomstick has won a majority of the
Great S and the nG 6 5ae
asked to give weight he has failed With III
post. Captain Browns jacket Will also be car
red by Audience, Sir Dixon flly
Mercury By meedderTgIla BIaekbuTn ana Leon
tremendous speed. but is slow in getting away and
still runs green The odds against the Whitney
entry, which last night were quoted at 10 to /
would seem to indicate that the students did not
hold the pair in high esteem. The full list of
probable starters. and their weights follows:
FOURTH EACE-THE FUTURITY; by subscription Of
$50 each only $40 # money be ssnt with
entry: for mares covered 1900 a further sub
scrption OF $50 for the produce Of such mares
unless struck out by November 1902; 500
by July IS 1903: each starter TO pay $3.50
additional all OF which shall go the second and
third horses further provided; the Coney Island
Jockey Club add $4,000 second to receive
81 $50 OF the added money two-thirds OF the
starting fees the third $3.50 added money and
one-third Of the starting fees. The nominators of
the winner. of the second and of the third
horse namely, the nomnator Of the mare. receive
$1,000. ESQ $500 Of added money respec-
lively, whether they the the horse
when the takes place not: colts 122 pounds.
hlIies and geldinss ll9 pounds; two races
Of $4,000 Of $780, pounds extra; Of
three of $1,000. Of IS OoO or one $4,000 eight
flLrlangs ns