The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-26
Hard to Pick the Winner i'm the
Futurity Stakes.
To Race This Afternoon on
Heavy Track at Sheepshead.
PURSE WORTH $4,000.
Harry Payne Whitney's Colt
Climber" Well Liked.
"Ormondale'' Having Many
Dollars Placed on His Winning.

New York. Aug. 26.-The great Flu
turity stakes, worth about $4,000, will
De run over the six furlong straight
course at Sheepshead Bay this after
noon on heavy track. Seventeen prob
able starters have been announced and
1t is likely the number will be increased
because of the muddy going, so that
even If Withdrawals are made, the field
IS sure to be a large one. So open is
the race that few persons are willing to
commit themselves as to the probable
winner.
Today's running of the Futurity will
be the eighteenth renewal 1t is the
banner event of the Metropolitan rae
ing season, and always draws the larg-
est crowd of the year. Even in the most
dismal weather the beautiful course of
the Coney Island Jockey club always
has been packed on Futurity day and
this years plans are being made to
entertain at least $4,000 persons. After
two days of drizzling rain the skies
| cleared during the night, the weather
was quite cool so the track officials had
an opportunity to begin work early.
The going is certain to be slow. Art
fuIS record of last year is considered
likely to remain unbroken. Indeed the
contestants this year contain no such
marvels as Artful, Tradition and Syson-
| Dy- 1t is a Well-balanced lot of young
sters.
None of those carded stand out prom
inently and the uncertainty thus given
| to the struggle will make it one of the
most interesting. Harry Payne Whit
ney, who took up his fathers racing in
| terests, will be represented in the his
| toric contest. He accomplished this by
purchasing Timber at a high figure
This colt, with some others, probably
will receive the prominent bulk of pub
| rim vie
| of the heavy going, it is expected the
Midtown stable will add the colt Ath-
lete, whose breeding gives him liking
| for mud.
Owing to the racing conditions in the
| west today's field will be the most rep
| reSentative that ever has gone to the
post. Horse owners from every quarter
of the land will be represented
Among the horses of the middle west.
Ornondale, son of the famous Ormonde,
| is best liked, chiefly because of his fast
work at Saratoga. Woolwich, wearing
| Belmont's colors is favored because of
! will be backed, but so far this season
these two Commando colts have dis
| appointed their breeder who entertains
no such high hopes as those he held q
paraded to the post in the futurity.
They have shown fast work only to fall
! short when in actual racing. Timber
raced we'll over the Sheepshead course
|
will not bother him. The Ogden colt
has been favored with a rest and is
expected to do much better today than
| in his latest races at Saratoga.
Captain S. S. Browns Accountant
carries the top weight owing to the
winning of several small stakes, and
the experts assert that he will be un-
equal to the task. F'Hpflap, who has
once or twice shown the inconsistency
indicated by her name, is by Hand
spring and likes the mud. Shrewd train
ers and bettors will support her in the
| belief that better ride than she had
/ in her losing races at Saratoga and an
even break at the post will win today.
Jacobite, Jerry Weinberg, Vendor and
| Veronese are the most prominent in the
/ balance of the list. The last named, in
the colors of w. c. DAILY, has run some
good races and is in prime condition.
The field is so evenly matched that
splendid contest should result even if
the class of the contestants is, perhaps,
not quite so high as in some other
years. The probable starters etc., are:
Woolwich 119, Troxler, 4 to 1.
| Bridgeman, III, Miller, to 1.
| Jerry Warnberg, III, O'Neill, 8 to 2.
| Ormondale, III, Redfern, 5 to 1.
Flipf1ap, 119, Knapp, 6 to /.
Timber, III, Hildebrand, to 1.
Kuroki. III, Nicol. 10 to 1.
Oyama, lit, L. Smith. 10 to 1.
Vendor, 123, Shaw, II to L.
! Jacobite, 120, Davis, 10 to 1.
Veronese, 122. J. Daily, 20 to l.
! Accountant, 40, Martin. Is to 1.
Bellsnicker, 122, Helgeson, 80 to /.
Artery, III, Bulletin, so to 1.
| Running Water. 116, Lyme, so to 1.
! Zeinap, 116, Mcintyre, so to 1.
! Belmere, III, Buchanan, so to 1.