Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-17
TRIPLE CROWN
FOR BEST COLT
innovation, With $4,000 Re-
ward, for Winner of Three
Great Races.

NEW YORK, June ia period of big
values in local racing, with the richest
prizes of the turf year coming in quick
succession. will this week with the
| opening of the Coney Island Jockey Clubs
spring meeting at the Sheepshead Bay
course on Thursday The $4,000 Suburban.
to be run Thursday for the twenty-fourth
time, holds it's place Of Importance on the
racing calendar the greatest and most
! popular Of the big open nandicaps, but
so rapidly have the other great events fos-
| tered by the Coney Island Jockey Club
| grown that the Suburban now is only one
Of many big prizes, and by means the
biggest offered for the June term of racing
at Sheepshead Bay. More than 100000
will be distributed by the club in stakes
In that period. The biggest possibilities Of
The meeting for winning horses are con-
tanned in the triple-event arrangement
which will have its first running this year,
for horses three years old. This test of
| their merit calling for the winning of the
three most important stakes of the meeting
for horses Of their age. carries with 1t In
| case any one horse wins the three events
$4,000 a special prize to crown the
champion.
The three events include two famous old
fixtures of Sheepshead Bay racing-the
Tidal and the Lawrence Realization-and
Club stakes. These events are at different
distances, with the conditions Of each SO
arranged as to make the winning of any
| one crown of fame to the victor; the added
prize will be a reward in substance. aside
from the fame that must go to the con-
queror that carries away the triple crown.
Rich Tidal Stakes.
The first Of these events will be the
Tidal one mile and a quarter, at scale
weights. worth $20OCO to be run next
Saturday. The second, the Coney Island
Jockey Club stakes. one mile and a half.
| with penalties and allowances provided for
under a plan that gives a range of thir-
teen pounds between the possible top and
bottom weights, worth $4,000. will be run
a week later The third event. the dis
tances increasing with the running of each.
will be the Lawrence realization, at mile
and five furlongs, with allowances provided
for up to ten pounds. and worth approx
mately $4,000, will be run the last day of
the meeting. ten days after the Coney
Island Jockey Club stakes.
The intervals between the races are quite
long enough to permit of the horses that
run for the earlier races to be rested and
fitted for the events that follow, but the
races come so close together as to make
fair comparison in the severity of the task
that the possible winner of the triple
crown may achieve, for the older and more
glorious triumph of winning the triple
crown of 1000 guineas. Derby, and ST.
Leger in England. The English races, which
extend over practically the entire season.
the two thousand one-mile at Newmarket
in the spring. the Derby one mile and a
half at EPSON and the st. Leger, one mile
and three-quarters. at Doncaster In the
fall have total value of about $4,000
The Coney Island Jockey club 8 triple event,
including the added prize, should any one
horse win the three, will bring the actual
worth Of the two triple crowns very
close together.
land Jockey Club stakes has the largest
and best list Of entries. the nominations
having closed late and all the best of last
seasons two-year-olds being engaged OF
those eligible. the most conspicuous is
Peter Pan, James R. Keenes champion
| money winner of the year Peter Pan has
only one other engagement at the Sleeps
head Bay meeting, and that Is In the Al
vance stakes a mile and three furlongs,
weight for age. worth $4,000, to be run
on July A. between the dates of the Coney
Island Jockey Club stakes and the Law
renee Realization, and as Peter Pan will
have to carry only ia pounds in that
event. it Is not unlikely that he will run
for all four Of his Coney Island engage
ments with the possibility of winning near
ly 100000 at the one meeting. The horses
that are engaged as rivals to Peter Pan
are McCarter. Okenite, Smiling Tom. Don
Enrique, Yankee Gun, Oran, Penarris, Pau
monok Saricenesca. Gretna Green. Senator
Clay, Sea Wolf Royal Onyx, Charles G.
Gates The Wrestler Faust. Prince Hamp-
ton and Lord Lovat. and the possibilities of
| the triple crown are confined to these.
but the Coney Island Jockey Club stakes.
with Electoneer, Fountainblue, Kentucky
Beau, Ballot, Superman, Philander, Arctic.
Montgomery, Court Dress and Sewell
among the more prominent of it's entries.
will be the hardest race of the three to
win
Trio of Rich Prizes.
The richest of the other stakes at Coney
Island are the $4,000 Great Trial, the 49,,
900 Commonwealth handicap and the 500
900 of the Double event, divided between
two races the first part to be run on the
opening day as subordinate feature to the
Suburban.
The weights for the Suburban handicap
have been practically established. and the
only change that Is possible depends on