Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
Racing Looks Promising at
Aqueduct This Week.
ST AXE FE A L u RhS
NATIONALS AGAIN CONFRONT
NEW YoRKs THIS AFTERNOON.
Ban johnson in Town - Atlantic City
Golf Tourney-George Washington
Team Off for Virginia.
The Sunday Star.

EpeciaI Correspondence Of The Sunday Star.
NEW YORK, April 16. 1905.
1t is an unusually interesting program
that Secretary Fred Rehberger has mapped
out for owners and trainers. as well as for
the patrons of racing, for the first week
of the meeting at Aqueduct. With any
thing like fair weather the sport that will
be seen should be full Of interest and ex-
element from beginning to end. There are
seven hne-looking fixtures distributed
among the six racing days. which, taken
In connection with a well-arranged pro-
gram of overnight handicaps and condition
races cannot but draw out well-balanced
fields in which horses of class will make
their debuts for the season.
For Saturday the best card of the week
has been arranged and another record
breaking crowd should pass through the
gates of the pretty little Queens county
track There are two good stakes down for
decision the Woodhaven at four and half
furlongs for youngsters, and the queens
County Handicap, at mile, for 3-year-oidS
and upward. which will have 1880 added
money. In interest. the latter event should
be second only to the Carter Handlcap,
which was run on the opening day or the
meeting, for named to start in the stake
are many OF the horses that went to the
post I'm the opening feature. The weights
by Handicapped Vosburg on Wednesday.
Eligible for the race and among the most
probable starters are l.. V. Bells Gloriher'
II. Gardeners Floral King, NJ. l.. Hayman's
Orthodox and Right Royal, c. T. Hen
sails Martlnmas, D. C. Johnsons Roseben,
James X. Keene's Butcher and Sinister
William Lakeland's Little EN-. j: H. Nc
Cormick's Grenade. Andrew Millers Coy
Maid and Incantation, Sydney Pagets
Goldsmith, Ormonde's Right and Belle
Strome. Frank Regan's Witch Hazel, Alex.
Shields st. Valentine. w. Shields Buttons.
E. f. Smathers' Rapid Water and Bur
leigh. w. A. Stantons Emperor OF india,
Peter Winners Ocean Tide, r. T. wilson,
jr.'s Montreson and j. C. feager
Leonidas.
THE distance of the Queens County
Handicap is a furlong farther than was the
Carter and should produce equally as good
a race and a cracking good finish Inc
WoodhaVen Stakes has all of the best
youngsters that have thus far been shown.
and should be a very open betting aHalr
for those who like to take purely gambling
chance.
feature event of today's card, introduced
TO the public for the first time
number of prospective kings ana queens
of the running turf. The ozone Is Tor =
year-olds at half a mile, and has $1,000
in added money, a purse worth trying for
Fifty-six colts and FLIES have been named
as eligibes, comparatively Few or winch
have ever faced the barrier as yet. New
ton Bennington is the most liberal nomi-
nator to the stake, having named one MY
and five colts. Mamie Abbott, Third Alarm.
Superior Boy. DR.. Heard Commodore Fon-
taine and Demore. OF those that have al
ready been seen in public, there are August
Belmont's Marksman and st. Estephe,
neither of which showed anything like first
class form at Benning; T. II. Griffin 8
Belden. a very fair sort of colt and
Leonard Joe Hayman, which has peen
named by M L. Hayman, and was con-
cededly the best youngster at New Or
leans this winter. E E. Smathers and
r. T. Wilson, jr, have each named hve,
but which of these will be started is
Question. There is much interest in the
appea rance of the Smathers youngsters, for
they have come east heralded as a shifty
lot.