The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-09
AN ARRAY OF CLASS
,xTRIES FOR TURF EVENTS IN
clUDE ALL GREAT THOROUGH
BREEDS.
AUGUST BELM0NT'S ENTRIES.
,pIsH LAD AND GUNFIRE ADDED To
THE LIST OF STARS.

,,,o belmont COIors VIII BE Borne
in the Great Events by Lord of the
VaIe-The Great Little whitney
Ware. Gunfire, Was Among the
I.te Entries Into the Suburban,
RrooLIyn and Brighton Handi-
caps-There Are Many Good Ones
IN the Young DivisiOn-FinaI List
of Entries Has Been Made Up.
The final lists of entries in all of the
bip events to be run on the Eastern
turf the coming season have been
made up, the nomination being for the
three great handicaps, the Brooklyn,
the suburban and the Brighton. They
NAV not, in number, equal those of
last wear. but they disclose the all i'm
rortant and completely satisfying fact
that every horse of merit is engaged.
When they will have been run and
yon there will be no man between the
oceans who may rise up and query
about what might have been if some
certain horse had been nominated.
They are named, and into the handi-
Gamers hands will go the finest lot of
tboroughbreds that ever graced any
series of stakes in this country. Even
IN numerical strength they are great,
however. the Brighton already having
received 6S, the Suburban 6S, and
the Brooklyn g.
GunfIre to Go Again.
friac h 81
came to all three of the classics late
were those of Irish Lad and Gunfire,
Lord of the Vale and Mizzen. 1t was
exnected that Irish Lads nomination
would surely be forthcoming, but there
was distinct pleasure in the knoWi-
edge that Gunfire would return to the
turf The desire to breed such mare
as is this splendid daughter of Hast
ings and Royal Gun instead of sub
Jecting her to the possible accidents
almost necessarily incident to train
ing, must be great, and it would be
most glorious reward should she go in
1905 to her matronly duties with the
triumph of one of these handicaps add
ed to the Metropolitan laurels which
she won in 1903.
Lord of the Wales engagement in
all three of the futures is also most
-
surance of Mr.. Belmonts colors again
being seen, but also because it so ma
tertally strengthens the chances of the
4-year-old division. His scant defeat
in the F'uturity and his easy victory
in the Grand Consolation marked him
out colt in a thousand. Last year
he did not see the post, but he was
not ON the shelf in the ordinary ac-
ceptance of the term. He was the vic
Of cAt.fn1 ~ IL -, A.,
station pen at Babylon last spring
waiting to be loaded.
He was 50 badly cut about the shout
ders and ankles that to put him in
training before the autumn was i'm
possible and, as at that season the
bulk of his engagements had passed,
ne was not asked to do anything. In
the same wreck Lord of the Vale was
injured Magistrate all year carried
IN his knees the marks which the barb
ed wire had made in him.
Good Ones in Young Division.
OF the class of Lord of the Vale
there can be no question whatever,
and with his nomination, the 4-year-
OLD list is magnificently complete.
with Irish Lad, Africander, Lord of
the vale, Golden Maxim and Savable
III all the handicaps and with the phe-
nominal Dick Welles from the West to
meet them in the Brighton, no other
year ever saw such formidable array
or good young horses. Every one of
mem is a winner of distinguished mer-
H. and all of them except Lord of the
vale, who was not q starter last sea-
SON showed that as S-year-olds they
iully maintained the high promise of
greatness which they had given in
their juvenile year. Dick Welles easily
Is the best horse at any distance in
Inc W.T., and when he meets the
pride of the East there must be uni
Versal acceptance of the verdict, what
ever it will be.
these 4-year-olds, if no other horse
~ all We're entered would be sufficient
lor brilliant contest, but with them
are Waterboy the champion of last
year. McCheSney, whose claims to the
u'le are upheld by all the hosts near
unto and beyond the Mississippi; Her
ms and all the other giants in the
mamdlcap division. How Mr.. Vosburgh
VIII rate them will not be known for
solne weeks yet, but his work will be
most difficult. One good horse and one
todu morse may be judged, but to adj
yQst weights which will bring cham
pIons on practically even terms is
ASK the difficulty of which can scarce
" be imagined.
me entries to date in all the three
"%hdlcaps follow
suburban neutrality-suspicious. Ad-
N,fEnce Guard, Acefull, Baseful, Bob
CouIphy' Buttons, Bonnibert, Col Bill,
CCaptain Buckle, Cannon Ball, Chiffon,
ppoLeIess, Charles Elwood, Delhi, Dick
Tandrd' Damon, francesca, Flying
seipedo' Gunfire, Golden Maxim, Gold
bam iN, Grand Opera, Grey Friar, High
He 'n hamburg Belle, High Chancellor,
INNS Hunter Raine, Hurstbourne,
tiopppoGrates, Igniter. Illyria, Injunc-
Joo, Irlsh Lad, James ", John F.,
M nv knight Errant, l.. of the Vale.
No JJdlhgerfeld, Meltonan, Montreson,
Val esney, Mizzen, Ocean Tide, Ort
Rigbss Orly II, Onatas, Ormonde's
rsta RUBY King, Runnes, River Pi-
ST. reliable, Santon, Short Hose,
Son. lng Ground, Stalwart, Savable,
Va, rlmbe The Picket, Toboggan,
pseernoy, Whorler.
van kiyn Handicap-Africander Ad-
sticL nGuard, Acefull, Baseful. Broom
Carai buttons, Bonnibert Cannon Ball.
Noo5 Captain Buckle, Charles FL
nara Coi Bill, Dalesman, Dick Ber-
Evil Oamon, Delhi, Embarra ssment,
Sam torpedo, Golden Maxim, Gold
Gre Grand Opera, Grey Friar. Gun
HlRbbaSh Chancellor, Hamburg Belle,
Hermis, Hurstbourne, Ignit-