Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-27
SATURDAYS BIG RACE.
At Least "a Thoroughfreds to Start
in the Futurity.

According to present indications there
will be at least twenty-four starters in the
Futurity at Sheepshead Bay next Saturday.
and there may be more than that number.
In all probability several Of the biggest
owners will be represented by two or more
youngsters. 1t Is now said that the Keenes
are sure to send Delhi. Kohinoor, Israelte
and Dovecote to the post w. c. Whitney
Is expected to start Leonidas, Stalwart and
Mercury. August Belmont will be repre-
scented, possibly, by both Magistrate and
Beidame, while 8. s. Browns Broomstick
and Audience are both slated to go. John
E. Madden says Adbell. The Minute Man
and another colt will carry his colors. Sgd
ney Paget has named both Hamburg Belle
and Ormonde's Right to sport silk. M.
Murphy has practically decided to start
both Baseful and James V. The Osceola
stable has notified the Coney Island Jockey
Club that 1t will start PhaSer, Lady Pru-
dence and Marriage Bells.
In short, 1t Is a certainty that when the
big field reaches the barrier On Saturday
Starter Fitzgerald will have his hands full.
The Futurity course at the starting point is
wide enough for thirty horses to take the
word. but even then there would be some
crowding. Last year there were twenty
four starters and they all got away except
one. who propped himself.
Turfmen at the New York tracks were
discussing yesterday a SenSatlOnai work
out for the Futurity by James r. Keene's
Delhi the son of Ben Brush-Viva. The
colt covered seven furlongs on Tuesday at
Sheepshead Bay in 1.28 fiat. He did not
have more than 1O5 pounds on his back, but
he worked so easily that the ra1lbirds de-
cided that he would take hard beating in
the big race, in which he Will shoulder 127
pounds. Delhi is strapping big colt. SUI
perbly proportional, and those who have
seen him say he Is gated like the celebrated
McChesney. Among the layers in New
York the opinion prevailed yesterday that
the Futurity would be the most open bet
ting proposition in the history of the classic
event. There is an inclination to make the
keene stable favorite, with the Whitney.
Madden and Paget entries not far behind.
Petra II, the game little daughter Of Pom
dac-Poncho, who was bred by the late
Pierre Lorillard at Rancocas. has been de-
stroyed because of an fncurable injury re-
ceived the last time she went to the post
In race at Jamaica. She was jumped on
and tendon in her of hind leg was COM
pletely severed. DR.. Shepherd took the
mare In hand. and she had progressed SO
well that she was about to be turned out to
grass prior to being retired to the stud,
when blood poisoning set in, and by order
OF the 8. P. c. A. Petra IFS life was ended.
The first race she won this year was at
Aqueduct. when the odds. against her were
100 to /.
The horses belonging to Thomas
Shields. including -Hermis, arrived at
Sheepshead from Saratoga yesterday To-
day there will be big demand for what
remains Of stable room at the Long Island
tracks. Superintendent Frank Clarke OF
the Sheepshead Bay track said yesterday
that there will be accommodations there
Tor 5O,OOO spectators on Saturday.