Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
EEENES MAY WIN
GREAT FUTURITY
CLASSY FIELD TO START THIS
AFTERNOON
Winner VIII Annex $500 for owner.
How the FuturIty Horses Are
Prepared for the
Race

with thousands feverishly awaiting
the outcome OF today's great Futurlty
for two year old thoroughbreds which
occurs at Sheepshead bay. classy field
is prepared to gather behind the bar
rier.
The owner of the colt or filly TO first
breast the judges will take down not
far from $35000. Such is horse racing
in these booming days of American
prosperity. Some critics say this Fu-
turity Is the biggest thing in the years
racing calendar, not so much because
of its enormous value, but because the
best sort of racing sentiment is
wrought UP when a Futurity Is run,
and by far the best class attendance
of the season graces the lawns and
fills the stands down at the flower
bedecked Sheepshead bay as the field
of equine babies canters down to the
post in the mellow autumn sunshine.
Before taking up the complexion of
the field of probable starters 1t may be
well to understand just how horse
race like the Futurity is made to be
worth so colossal a sum of money. In
the first place, it is run out on the Flu
turity course which is a little over
three quarters of a mile in length-a
few yards
This course is a chute which runs
like a stovepipe with an elbow in 1t.
The horses are started away up the
racing grounds almost out of eyesight,
the horses running on the straight
away right to the lower end of the
grandstand.
FIukey Victories
There the elbow is encountered and
here it Is that many a Futurity has
been won and lost in years gone by,
for the front runners come with such a
momentum that they oftentimes bolt
away up to the outer railing, and be-
fore they can recover the lost territory
the oncomers sneak in on the rail and
get home through the short stretch to
a fukey victory.
1t is for two-year-old colts, fillies and
geldings, as aforementioned. Say away
back in 1902 a breeder down in Ken
lucky has In his stud a fine blooded
sire and patrician bred mare. He
mates them and at the same time en-
ters the expected progeny in the Fu-
turity of 1906.
No matter who owns the coming
thoroughbred when the Futurity of
three years later is run, this breeder
and nominator is entitled to some of
the prize money in case the youngster
wins the big race.
This is done to encourage scientific
breeding. Colts carry 1923 pounds and
fillies 119 pounds. OF course, there are
penalties. For instance the winner of
six pounds when he came to run in the
Futurity. Horses which had never
won race are allowed three pounds
1t costs about $40 to enter up horse,
while there are several assessments in
the different periods the owner has to
pay. In fact if the horse starts it
means an outlay of over $400, but this
investment is worth. the chance with
$4,000 standing as the reward of sue
cess.
Probably 800 owners contribute in en-
try fees $4,000. The Coney Island
Jockey club gives $4,000.
keenes Have Chance
This year the Messrs. j. R. & F. p.
Keene, who own Castleton farm in
Kentucky and have long been the fora-
most figures on the Metropolitan turf,
seem to have the best chance of taking
down the 1906 Futurity for the firm
has four first class eligibles in point
for the struggle, any one of which fig
ureS out an excellent chance of win
ming.
Grimaldi, son of Commando; Ballot,
a son of Voter, the latter the fastest
sprinter ever known to the turf; Peter
Pan, another Commando, and a cork
ing filly from the loins of Disguise, a
horse which represented the Keenes
with success in England five years ago,
named Pope Joan, are the Castleton
color bearers
Grimaldi comes in without penalties
and had worked very fast, while Peter
Pan is the biggest and most rugged
tWo-year-old in training. The Raineys
of Cleveland. o., who recently bet $40,-
600 to win $4,000 on Heaslip, are unfor-
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