Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
RICH FUTUR|TY
TO Be RUN TODAY
Sixteen Horses to Start for
Stakes Valued at
$4,000.

opening Of the autumn racing season on
the metropolitan tracks at the Coney Island
Jockey Clubs Sheepshead Bay course.
The contest, the nineteenth running OF
the famous fixture which from the first
year Of its history has held place as the
most popular Of the great races for two
year-olds. will be the greatest event of
the turf for the fall and. marking. as 1t
does. the return of racing after a month
of inaction on the local tracks. while the
scene of racing was removed to Saratoga.
the Futurity confidently is counted on by
the Coney Island Jockey Club as the best
drawing attraction Of the turf year. This
season 1t promises to be more attractive
than ever before, because of the open char
acter Of the contest. which includes among
the sixteen horses named to run a fairly
representative lot of two-year-olds from
all sections of the United States and Can
ada. with none SO far overshadowing the
others as to detract from the interest that
the race for the rich Futurity prize has
aroused
The field named to run is somewhat
smaller than most horsemen had antici-
pated. for the open nature OF the race
seemed to Invite every turfman with an
chance for the most valuable race Of the
year, and the opinion was general that
more than twenty horses would be tempt
ed to the post by the rather ordinary quail
prominent of the Futurity colts and FLIES.
The mischances of training and racing
have eliminated some OF the prominent
horses, but still about the best that fig
ured among the elfgibles are in the sixteen
that yesterday were sent out In the official
list of entries and the race in prospect is
quite as alluring as the managers of the
Sheepshead Bay track could hope for.
Great Crowd Expected.
From the popular view, the worth of the
stakes has much to do with the place in
turf affairs that the Futurity has taken,
and the public outpouring that the running
for the $4,000 race is certain to attract Is
expected by the managers Of the Sleeps
head Bay track to eclipse the records for
attendance at the course. With fair weather
today it is predicted confidently that more
than 10000 patrons will assemble at the
track. and there Is every prospect that the
crowd will be one Of the most fashiona BILE
that ever witnessed the running OF Flu
turity.
There is every prospect of a fast and good
track for the big race, and with the Sleeps
head Bay course faster this year than 1t
ever was before the chances seem fairly
good for a new time record for the race.
On the best performances of several Of the
horses named to run a new record Is well
within the possibilities. and the speed OF
the runners also will be aided by the ideal
conditions that have prevailed for the past
week.
In the betting mems estimates Of the
chances Of the race last night the entry Of
James r. Keene made up of three horses
Peter Pan, a winner undr high weight in
fast time at Saratoga In his last race: Pope
Joan, winner of her first race at Saratoga,
but beaten and third to Peter Pan In her
that ran at Saratoga-held the place OF
favorite and odds of to against the
stable entry then were accepted. The next
choices in the race were De Mund, the colt
for which Panl T RQinoV maid $45 O00 in the
early spring; Horace E., for which Roy s..
Rainey paid $4,000, and Thomas Hitch
cock jr.'s. pair. Conville and Golf Ball. OF
the horses that are named to start for the
Futurity, all except May Rowe. a maiden
which never has started. and Oran, the win
ner Of the Great Trial Stakes at Sleeps
head Bay in the spring, ran at Saratoga.
and Peter Pan, De Mund, Don Enrique.
Conville, Pope Joan and Kentucky Beau
were winners there. and so have establishs I'D
recent good FORM
Peter Pan the Favorite.
The most impressive race run by any of
the Futurity horses was that In which
Peter Pan. winner of two stakes at Sara
toga, figured In this he ran coupled in
the betting with Pope Joan. as favorite,
but Pope Joan was the horse which bet
tors considered, for in separate betting
as good as to 1 was laid against Peter
Pans chance to be third, yet the colt
covering six furlongs in LIP is, or about
the best race of the year for two-year-
old. De Mund. which had come to be re-
garded as a failure after his first defeat
in the spring. returned to winning form
with a race that astonished the horsemen
for after being beaten In one race with
high weight up he next won In canter
for big stake carrying 122 pounds and
pulling up first in LA on a slow track in
q six-furlong race Convlle won two clever
races. in one Of which he beat both
Purslane and Horace E.. while in the other
and Don Enrique. in spite Of their winning
races at Saratoga, were both behind Peter
Pan and Pope Joan in Peter Pans best
lished on the capabilities of these.
The peculiar conditions of the Futurity
are responsible for some odd differences
in weights for the race today. Peter Pan.
for instance, being in receipt of weight
from that colt, because Of a breeding al
How the Odds Stand.
The entries. owners. horses. weight, jock
eys and probable odds are:
James r. Keene, Peter. Pan, 127, Koer-
ner. 2.
James R. Keene. Pope Joan. 118 Nicol. 2.
James r. Keene. Zambesi. 1T. w.
Knapp, 2.
p. ]. Rainey, De Mund, 12S, J. Martin, 5.
Ormonde Stable. Oran. 40. Miller. 8.
Thomas Hitchcock. jr.. Conville. lit.
Sewell, TO-
Thomas Hitchcock. jr.. Golf Ball. 119.
Horner, 10.
A. Belmont. Don Enrique, 122, J. Jones,
40.
C. e. Rowe May Rowe. LA. Garner, 40.
George J. Long, Altuda. lie. Troxler. 80.
C. r. Ellison, Yankee Girl, ia, Heffer-
nan, 80.
William Lakeland, Kentucky Beau, 116.
Shaw, 6.
A. j. Corey, Old Honesty. lit. Perrine. 20.
4 J. E. Seagram, Purslane. lit, L. Smith, 40.
William Lakeland, Electioneer, lit, L.
Williams. 7.
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