The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-15
SUBURBAN TO BE RUN AT SHEEPSHEAD TO-DAY
GREATEST OF AMERICAN HANDI-
 CAPS FOR S2O,OOO.
Twelve of the Finest ThOrOughbreds in the Country Carded to Start Keene and Belmont Stables Give Up Great Delhi and BeIdame Entered West Represented by Proper.

Their Best for the COntest-The
 Great Delhi and BeIdame Entered
 West Represented by Proper.
 New York, June 14.-Sheepshead, with it's green stretches and splendid racing courses reaching almost to the seashOre, will witness the twenty-sec- ond running of the greatest of Ameri- can handicaps to-morrow-the Subur- ban. Bright skies are forecasted, a fast track has been prepared and goodly field of thoroughbreds will con- tend for the $20,000 stake, all of which crowd to witness the winning of the race that to this country is what the Derby is to England or the premier classic is in other lands.
 Though only twelve horses are card ed to go, it is a well-matched field. with the possible chance of any one of the number reaching the wire in the lead from Delhi, who carries the heaviest impost, to the lightly weighted ostrich, with the feather Crimmins on his back.
 Run when the season is we'll at it's height, the Suburban always attracts the best of the thoroughbreds in train ing, and, as rule, Is truly contested race, the winning of which is looked upon as of infinitely more significance than the winning of either the Brook lyn or the Metropolitan that have gone before.
 Tomorrow, long before the bugle calls the horses to the post, the great stands, the lawn and the field will be packed with the never-failing tide of horse lovers that year by year grows greater and greater. .s.:....
 Once more the Keene and Belmont stables have given of their best, and Delhi, who carried the colors of James R. Keene to victory in the last Brook lyn and whose winnings the previous year were greater than any other horse in the east, and Beldame, August Bel mont's splendid little mare, who, in the name of Newton Bennington, last year won twelve of her fourteen starts, will divide public favor. Which of the two will be installed the actual money fa- vorite at post time is problemattc, though Delhi on form would seem to have the call. Delhi's clever winning of the Brooklyn with 124 pounds would Eseem to outweigh the mares victory in the Standard stakes a week ago over Cairngorm. Though the greatest Ally of last year-greater even than famous old Imp-Beldame this year seemingly had not, up to recent days, rounded into form. ,~. The Whitney stable will have no can didate for the suburban this year. lrish Lad, an idol of the public in his day. has gone bad and will be withdrawn. The Picket, too, who figured promin- entity in the winter books, will be ap- sent when the barrier goes up, but others enough, and game ones at that, will be there to dispute the right of either of the favorites to the rich prize The western candidate, Proper, is al- ways fit, and always dangerous. With 1 the burst of speed that several times he has given evidence of possessing at 1 the end his chances of reaching the wire first, If he is with the leaders In
 the stretch, are by no means slim, and English Lad, Fred Cooks entry is now
 well thought of, although his price will l be long.
 John E. Madden's Abdell is to be reckoned with as well as the light
 weight Jacquin, an added starter, who
 romped away with the Myrtle stakes
 at Gravesend to-day, negotiating the
 mile and seventy yards in 1:44 3-5 and
 winning by half a dozen lengths eased
 up. B., 1 Ostrich carrying ninety-two pounds,
 may do as well as he did in the Brook
 lyn when he gave Delhi a hard race
 but he has not been in good temper oi
 late, and will need clever handling
 Among the others are Grazialle, a long
 shot that frequently has carried off the
 money at an unexpected moment, and
 First Mason, a stable mate of Colonial
 Girl, neither of whom it would be well
 to overlook.