New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-01
,lF HANDICAP WEIGHTS.
- tEGGO GOES HIGHER.
800 and Rosebep Vel Up an
RrnobIm and Suburban.

,.-1h the official Handicapped OF the
W announced yesterday the official
joke .As BROOKLYN and SUBURBAN hanoi
rsishS - nile and a quarter. The Brooklyn
ags os usual on the opening day of the
81 . ,a.,ev cubs meeting at Gravesend.'
B'oAS suburban viii mark the first day OF
- --,,r meeting Of the Coney lsiahd Jockey
-, AZ sheepshead Say
u-s lights are much the same as those an
4 Ice, week for the Brighton Handicap
60. ~ same horses are concerned, with one
sxoention. Or. Lego was allotted III
!, the Brighton. but If he goes TO the
80 ,hs Brooklyn he must take up us
Since the announcement OF the weights
PoDls. u-sgtto, DIT Lego has shown his class.
!" % the $4,000 Burns Handicap last Sat
D. =, california in fast time. His stock i'm
'Da. .,.,v went I'D with the official weight ad-
- ana rightly He defeated good field.
Sing Proper and Eugenia Birch. Proper
s.oo,d 70 Beldame IN the Suburban last
"a one OF the best handicap horses In
rzning-
o,,,rarv 10 expectations. James r. Keene's
= horse sysonby IS not allotted one or two
IDS more. be IS still a top weight but
-. the same inpost Of I3l pounds. His chief
.sr,,s however. are assigned one pound more,
,..,,sins Heruis Oiseau. Stslwart, Artful,
~ The Picket. Cairngorm, Tanya and Wa
tenight
r-,ner and Rosebsn. which We're not entered
- enc brighton are in the Brooklyn and Subur-
:, and both are held in nigh esteem. Proper
=, suotted 10 pounds on the same mark as
rsr., and only one pound under Artful and
y,ug,,,v
!. rrsdv on the days the races are run he
vmE have 10 be considered seriously, but on
ssT track il looks as If the Handicapped had
,rssss hin rather harshly. as good horse as
t,s His long winter Cmpaign may also count
sahsi hin
poseben is assigned 119 pounds. which would
,eu Ike q feather 10 him as compared 10 the
,-rsbing imposts he carried Ove- the shorter
sis,,rces last year Roseben holds the worlds
rs,or5 for six furlongs on a circular track OF
I1ls-5 Il was made last fall al Belmont
Park with IL pounds Up. He is ranked as
ore q the greatest sprinters OF the American
INF but he looks decidedly out OF place in a
handicap al one mile and a quarter. d. {.
Johnson his owner believes that he will 60
rou,e il trained a~ b.. and If he Will his i'm
rost Is none TOO ml-E. He is almost thrown
n in fact as a. six furlongs not even Sysonby,
uur Arrful nor Hernis could take liberties with
hr az even weights
0f the three-year-olds named. Kuroki is top
weight IN the Brooklyn. with 100 pounds, one
lsss than IN the Brighton, and Burgomaster has
ne cal in the Suburban with 105 pounds. two
lsss than in the Brighton All the youngsters
e, pound Of over their Brighton allotments
except The Whitney crack, which, in getting
NO of seems 70 have fallen OF slightly in the
sstimstior of the Handicapped during the week
First Water which was not named for the
Brighton, is well thought q as he Is allotted 1O2
pounds only three less than Burgomaster. First
Water was the hero q the Belmont Park spring
meeting last wear winning the National Stallion
stakes among Others. he did not face the start
. after being badly beaten On the opening day
e. Gravesen6
Graziailo. which IS entered only in the Brook
~. Is allotted 100 pounds
Weights were assigned 70 ffty-seven horses
II the Brooklyn and sixty in the Suburban, and
they follow IN full:
THE BROOhLYN HANDICAP.
lG lresycsr-ois and urVa-5 1900 each half forfeit
c: az declared 5g February 20. guaranteed cash
value. $1,000 q which $500 10 the second and
800 70 tze th-r5 one and 9ne-qusrter miles