The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-16
suRBURBAN HANDICAP.

Great Race at Sheepshead Bay Today
lsheepshead Bay classic. that will be
run today, an Eastern paper says:
On Thursday the gates of the beau
tiful Suburban race course at Sleeps
head Bay viii open, and the twenty
first Suburban Handicap will be run.
There is no question but that this stake
occupies the first place in the list of
| Ing the same as the City and Surbur-
ban run at EPSON Downs does In Eng
land.
From the time that General Monroe
took the first Suburban, to the present
one. there has always been the great
est Interest displayed in the running of
the race, Il Is an interest that begins
fed by the issuing of the weights and
intensified by the future betting.
! The history of the stake shows that
the greatest horses. of each year were
NEARLY always contestants. and some of
| the grandest struggles that are chron-
| ioled in the annals of the American
turf took place In the race for the Su-
burban Handicap.
After going through many transit
| items as to it's value the stake will this
Ever since Ben Brush won 1t the stake
has been guaranteed one, at first $780,
loco. but at present 1t has been dou-
bled. 5t
The Suburban has also been made
famous by the numerous coups that
have been planned with its running,
some that failed, and Others that were
The first Suburban got safely by
with little hue and cry. but the second
one, in 1885. was replete with incident.
Pontiac the imported colt of Pierre
1.orillard, beat Plunger Walton's imp.
| Richmond, home, and spoiled a big
killing planned by that erratic genius.
I'm the next Trainer Rogers brought
ltho coonskins. west with his colt Trou-
badour, which he was training for Cap
tain s. s. Brown. The western con-
tingent landing big lot of money, as
little was known of the horse in the
East and at that time 1T did not count
for much what the Westerners thought
of a horse, he was any old price when
for the get of the stallion Eolus-Eurus
and Elkwood Then Raceland, in the
Colors of A Belmont. took the event
fiem Hankins Johnsons Terra Gotta.
| tho next one, with his rival Tenney, in
third place. Then came Leontaka, an
lcutcast son of Sensation. and he was
entirely overlooked except by his own
err who won a large fortune. getting
l10G to l for his money. Then followed
Mcntana's sensational win. snapper
forgotten. Lowlander. another import
ed horse. won the event in 1893. Ban
louet met his defeat in the following
year by Ramapo, and then Gene Leigh
ron McClelland took the next one with
Henry of Navarro The next one went
to, Ben Brush, running In the Dwyer
loolors. Tillo was returned the winner
Iir 1898, another clean Western victory,
ho being owned by Turney Brothers. of
Paris. KY. Gallant Imp, the coal black
lady won again for the West, and she
lis the only mare that holds that dis
itinction kinley Mac won for Haggin
and was trained by Peter WINNER, and
tt en- another Western colt, which was
bought before the race by l.. " Bell
ltCok the 1901 race. Gold Heels's win
is still green in the memory of the
great performances OF the horse OF the
century and then came the great exhi-
bition of courage and gameness on the
things to the present day.
l. UNLESS all signs fail. It VIII be the
lgreatest Suburban in the history of the
blue ribbon event of the American turf
THESE are the probable starters: Her
tmis. Africander.. Irish Lad, Savable
lRunnels. The Picket. Major Danger
Iheld, Shorthose, Mizzen. Proper Eu-
genia Burch. Claude, City Bank, Pulsus
Delhi, Montresson. ormonde's Right
Raglan and Careless:
IF that is not a field to make the hair
OF student of the dope sheet turn
cray and warm the cookies of the heart
the sake of the sport, 1t would be hard
Ito make up one that would. If only
lWsterboy Hamburg Belle. Highball
ing more would be left to be desired
But then we cannot expect every
thing.
| Irish Lad VIII De the puOllc fancy
without doubt, with The Picket a close
second choice. There will be three
pounds less difference in the weights
between these two than there was in
1.-THE Brooklyn handicap, when the West
err crack beat out the pride of the
lWhitneys by the shortest kind of a
head. The running of the Standard
Stakes on Tuesday has caused a drop
4 In the stock of Hermis and Africander,
who was beaten fairly and squarely
by Major Daingerfeld, and a corre-
spending rise in the prospects of the
latter
Iup on Irish Lad. and with no sharp
turns at sheepshead it is safe to say
| he will ride a flawless race Redfern
or Phillips will pilot Hermis and Odom
Africander. No rider has yet been en-
gagged for Savable, but O'Neil may be
signed. Helgesen will again ride The
| Picket. while Martin and pullman will
have the mounts on Major Daingerfield
and Mizzen respectively. Comack has
been engaged to ride Prosper and Hill
debrand Pulsus Burns will handle
Delhi. The other riders have not been
definitely decided on yet. With the
greatest jockeys in the world riding
the fleetest and best race horses 1.-the
world, what more can be asked?"