Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
SAVING COLIN FOR FUTURITY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SARATOGA, N. Y, August 24.-For the
second time this year Trainer Rowe has
lodged big stake with his champion two
year-old Colin, letting Jim Gaffney the
speedy brother to Golden Maxim secure
the $1,000 Hopeful stake without much of
a struggle. And while slow track from
overnight rain partly responsible for
Colin remaining in the stable, the fact that
he would have had to have carried 100
pounds had much to do with his with
drawal from the race.
In racing, however, a $4,000 race ''ln
the hand looks safer than a $4,000 prize
''tn the BUSH" as the old proverb about
the bird goes. And while the Futurity next
Saturday is what Colin is being saved for,
he may not land that race, while he could
have almost to a certainty have beaten
Gaffney in the Hopeful. as he did three
days before in the Grand Union, at the
same concession in weight-fifteen pounds.
Again Colin is a gross colt, and Trainer
Rowe expected to have given him another
Will not fully extend himself in trial gal
lops, but loafs and plays with the boys.
But race days, the crowd, the band,
the other horses with colors up, and the
actual business at the post tell the brown
whirlWind that there is something doing,
and he enters into the contest with all
the zest of his gamecock disposition.
Now, there is not another race here that
he can run in before the Futurity, except
a couple of overnight handicaps. And
these he is hardly likely to be found in.
In the Futurity. strange to say, Colin. 1875.
will receive five pounds from Jim Gaff-
ney, 1870 The allowance to the keene
champion coming through his dam, Pas
torella, who had never produced win
ner up to time of entry. This looks to
make Colin a certainty over Gaffney for
the going Is good. But in mud Ganney may
beat him. as his clever Albany handicap
win Wednesday was an impressive exhibit
ton.
John Madden, however, still thinks Nee
lick has a chance for first money in the
Futurty. though few agree with him after
Gaffney beat Meeick so easily in the Hope
full. Other starters In the great race Will
probably not number over twelve or fifteen
from present indications.
August Belmont will start Fair Play and
AntaeuS John Sanford Fort Johnson and
Onatassa, while Keene will also send to
the post as d stable mate to Colin the
maiden Peter Ounce. John Madden will
also send Dennis Stafford along to keep
Meeick company.
Others that will go are the Oneck stables
Ben Fleet, Burleys Chapultepec, f. r.
Hitchcock's Smoker, w. J. Jennings Julia
Powell Whitney's Bar None, Lakeland 8
more In other stables. The Newcastle
stables Big Chief and the Squire don't look
to have much chance, but thay may make
try for the big prize at that.
Take the outlook week ahead, it looks
as If on q good track Colin will land the
great race. But in mud the situation will
be harder one all around. Jim Gaffney
is superior mud horse, and so are Fair
PLAY, Ben Fleet and Meeck. Madden in
sists that the latter is better than he has
shown and If the going is muddy on Sat
urday next he will have great chance, If
he can beat Gaffney and Colin.
Final strides here next week show prom
Use of great sport in the Amsterdam stake
on Monday, the Saranac on Tuesday, the
Adirondack on Wednesday and the Cham
plain on Thursday. The latter handicap
at mile and furlong has in Running
Water, Montgomery, Dandelion Cairngorn,
Superman, Walls DIR. Gardner and Peter
! Pan But that great colt, unfortunately
will not race again this year, as he has
been sent home to kentucky. c. C. P.