The Washington times., 1905-08-21
ANOTHER RACING
SEASON IS HERE
The Futurity Will Be Run
on Saturday.
BIG FIELD A CERTAINTY
Fifty Thousand Dollar Prize Will Mark
Opening of the Sheepshead
Bay Meeting.

The fall racing season on the metro
politan tracks viii open on Saturday OF
this week at the Sheepshead Bay race
course OF the Coney Island Jockey Club,
following the summer intermtssion OF a
month IN favor Of Saratoga
The re-entry Of turf sport will be
celebrated by the running of the eight
eenth FuturIty, the richest STAKE OF the
American turf for two-year-oids' ana
one that in value ranks among the
| greatest turf prizes of the world win
that big event SO close at hand' as the
! opening feature of the two months and
half of racing left 70 New York for
the season OF 1905. the interest OF pa
irons of racing has been transferred
from Saratoga to New York, and
though four days of racing At the sum
Tner resort remain, with several impor-
tant stakes to be decided there the t.u-
/ turity and its possibilities have become
the first topic among turfmen
One Hundred and Thirty-two Eligible.
The big fixture this season will have a
value of approximately $4,000, aad there
are at present 132 horses OF the l'los
nominat tons that are eligible to start
In the prospect for the race the F'utur1ty
looks to be about as open a race as the
stake ever produced Since the early
mart of the season horsemen have been
alert for the development OF Futurity
horses. and as the big Stakes OF the
spring and summer were distributed
among many winners, without show
ing any one colt or filly that seemed
pronouncedly superior to the others, the
prospect for a field Of record-breaking
size grew until it seemed as if about
every. horse of the eligibles might be re-
garded as having some sort or chance
The developments of the Saratoga
i meeting have made some change IN
this prospect, as the racing there has
brought into the light at least one colt
that appears TO be out OF the Ordinary;
and though at least thirty entries stlii
are figured as starters for the big race,
the juvenile hero of the Saratoga meet
ing John Sanford's Mohawk II. has
been eSta bIished firmly as the popular
faYorite for the contest, ana IN all the
estimates of their chances by the own
ers of other horses Mohawk II is re-
garded as the horse that must be con-
stdered first.
Mohawk II FavoTite.
The race already has induced some fu-
ture betting on the result. and in this
Mohawk is the fayorite. while the bet
ting is about even between half dozen
of the other candidates that will repre-
sent the great racing stables. OF the
winners of important stakes that are
counted on to oppose Mohawk. the most
prominent are First Water. the star
two-yeaF-old of the early spring; Ven
dor. Running Water, Esoteric, 1nquisi-
tor, and Jacopite. Others that are
counted on as starters are Timber.
bought by H P. Whitney, for a price
said 10 be s15, 900, from j. E. Madden.
| especially for the Futurity; Belmere.
Ormondale, Deviltree, one or perhaps
two CT the belmont trio. Bridgeman.
Woolwich, and Don Diego; Jerry Wern-
berg. The Quail, Comedienne. and rep
resentation from the Keene stable. which
has in the race three OF the much
talked-of Commando colts. Nogfs Oyama3
and Kuroki, together with several other
highly tried ones, on private form Other
horses that have been less talked OF, but
which on the erratic form OF the stake
winning tWo-year-olds of the spring and
summer, are considered as possibilities,
swell the number or probable starters
to close upon forty, though the chances
are that the number will be red Eeed by
about half. when the time CONF for the
race.
II IS a feature OF the coming contest
| that the most conspicuous horse engaged
| in the event and the present favorite Is
| colt that has been before the public less
than three weeks. for Mohawk II.