Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-31
RACE OF THE YEAR
WILL BE RUN TODAY
All America is Interested
Therein
FUTURITY STAKES ARE ENORMOUS
SheepShead Bay the Mecca of the
Sporting Element This Morning
Fortunes to Change Hands
on Results.
FUTURITY STAKES ARE ENORMOU,

NEW YORK, August S0.-The great
Futurity, worth about $4,000, will be
run over the six-furlong straight
course at Sheepshead Bay Saturday
the opening day of the Coney Island
Jockey Clubs autumn meeting. II
is the banner event of the metropolitan
racing season and always draws the
largest and most enthusiastic crowd
of the year, and this year plans have
been made to accommodate at least
$4,000 people
The Keene, Belmont, Whitney and
other prominent stables have entered
their best 2-year-olds in the classic
event, and from present indications a
big field will go to the barrier.
The fayorite will undoubtedly be
Colin, James R. Keenes unbeaten son
of Commando. Colin has started six
times this year and in each instance
he has been returned an easy win
ner. At no time has he been extend
ed, though on esevral occasions he
has shown tendency to loaf. Be-
ginning at an overnight event at Bel
mont Park, which he captured in a
gallop, the champion has won the
National Stallion stakes, the Eclipse
stakes, the Great Trial stakes, the
Brigton Junior stakes and the Grand
Union Hotel stakes, incidentally TAX
ing the measure of all the best young
sters yet shown,
This will be the twentieth running
of the Futurity, which is the largest
stake offered in this country for
horses. Of late the event has come
to most race followers outside the
regular track contingent to be the
one race of the year, to rank with the
Suburban and Brooklyn Handicap
as an event to be watched at all
costs.
The conditions are exceedingly
strict and it is by no means a cheap
race to start in, though an original
entry is not specially expensive. This
circumstance has served to bring out
the best colts of the year as a rule,
and it is rare that a 2-year-old of
real quality is barred from starting.
The field is usually a brilliant one,
and this year promises to be no ex-
ception.
The stake was started in 1888 and
the very first is deemed in sine res
poets the best of the series, Proctor
Knott, defeating the mighty Salvador
in a great race, and winning a for
tune for his owner, who was acount-
ed poor man to be in such com
pany. The race in 1891, when His
Highness defeated Yorkville Belle
and Dagonet, was another one to be
remarkable rivalry for turf honors.
In 1897 came the greatest surprise
of the series, when L'Alouette cap
tured the stake, an utter outsider,
wholly unregarded by the wise ones
in turf form. Since then colts like
Ballyhoo, Savable, whose chief claim
to notice was a son of Salvador, Ham
bury Belle, Artful, Ormondale and
EIectioneer have captured the stake,
fully rewarding the hopes of mapor-
ity of the students of form.
Should Colin capture the big event
Saturday it will mean that he has won
for James R. Keene, his owner, the
enormous sum of 100000 in one sea-
SON. When Celin won the Saratoga
Special a few weeks ago he increased
his earnings for the season to $780,
555.
There are not more than a score of
horses in turf history that have won
100000 in their entire career of rae
ing, so it can readily be understood
what a great feat Colin will accom-
plish should be end his 2-year-old ca
reer with 100000 to his credit. In
fact there have been few horses that
have won $59,555 during their 2-year-
old careers. So it is not to be won
dered that many turf critics share
Mr.. Keene's opinion that Colin is the
superior of the late Sysonby or the
great Domino.