The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-15
SUBURBAN WILL Be
CONTESTED TODAY
Either Delhi or BeIdame to be
Favorite
TWELVE HORSES ENTERED
Bright Skies and a Fast Track Are
Promised for the Big Event Which
Means $4,000 to the
Winner.
TWELVE HORSES ENTERED

New York, June A.-Sheepshead, with
its splendid racing courses reaching al
most to the seashore, will witness the
twenty-second running of the greatest of
American handicaps tomorrow, the Subur-
ban. Bright skies are forecasted, fast
track has been prepared and goodly
field of thoroughbTeds will contend for
the $4,000 stake, all of which gives prom
Use of a record-brealing crowd to witness
the winning of the race that, to this
country is what the derby is to England,
or the premier classic in other lands.
Though only twelve horses are carded
to go, it is a well made up field, with the
possible chance of any one of the num-
Der reaching the wire in the lead from
Delhi, who carries the heaviest impost, to
the lightly weighted Ostrich. with the
feather Crimins on his back.
Run when the season is well at its
height the Suburban always attracts the
best of the thoroughbreds in training and
as a rule is a truly contested race, the
winning of which is looked upon as of
infinitely more significance than the win
ming of either the Brooklyn or Metropoli-
tan that have gone before. Once more
the Keen and Belmont stables have given
of their best and Delhi. which carried
the color of James r. Keen to victory
in. the last Brooklyn, and whose win
nings the previous year were greater
than any other horse in the east, and
Beldame, August Belmonts splendid lit
tie mare, which is the. name of Newton
Bennington last season won twelve Of
her fourteen starts, will divide public
favor.
Which of the two will be installed the
actual money favorite at post time Is
problematlc, though Delhi, on form,
would seem to have the call. Delhi's
clever winning of the Brooklyn, with 124
pounds would seem to outweigh the
mares victory in the Standard stakes a
week ago over Cairngormn. Though the
greatest FLY of last year, greater even
than the famous old Imp, Beldame this
year seemingly had not up to recent days
rounded into FORM
The Whitney stable will have no candi-
date in the Suburban this year. Irish
Lad, an idol of the public in his day,
has gone bad and been Withdrawn. The
Picket. too, who figured prominently In
the winter books, will be absent from
the barrier, but others enough and hale
ones at that will be there to contest the
right of the favorites to the rich prize.
The western candidate. proper, is al
ways fit and always dangerous. With
the burst of speed that several times
he has given evidence of possessing at
the end his chances Of reaching the wire
first If he is with the leaders at the
stretch, are by no means slim, and Eng
fish Lad, Fred Cooks entry, is now well
thought of, although his price Will be
long.
Ostrich, carrying 92 pounds. may do
as well as he did in the Brooklyn when
he gave Delhi hard race, but he has
not been in good temper of late. Among
the others are Graziallo, long shot that
frequently has carried off the money
at an unexpected moment. and First Ma
son, a stable mate of Colonial Girl,
neither of whom 1t would be well to
overlook.
The entries. starters, jockeys. weights
and probable betting are:
Delhi, (Burns), 1925; 2 to l.
Bedame, (O'NeilD. 1913.
First Mason, (Booker), lis; 20 to l.
English Lad, (NicoD. III; 10 to /.
Bad News, &C. Kelly, lis; 10 to /.
Alanadale, Qyne), 112; Is to l.
Graziallo, (Odom), ITO; Is to 1.
Adbell a.. Smith, 1903; 6 to 1.
Proper, CIV. Knapp, 109; to l.
Miss Crawford, (Baird), 100; so to l.
Ostrich, (Crimmins), 92 to l.
Joaquin, q. j. Walsh 100; 20 to 1.