New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
RACING FOLK JOYFUL.
BUGLE CALL TOMORROW.
Strong Field Named for Garter
Handicap at Aqueduct.


The thud of the galloping thoroughbreds.
which is music 10 the ears of racing folk, Will
be heard at Aqueduct tomorrow. where the
Queens County Jockey Club win formally open
the racing season Of 1907 in the metropolitan
district The bugle viii call the horses 10 the
post for the first race at 230 o'clock. and. rain
or shine. the lovers of the sport viii turn cut
IN numbers II has seemed q long time since
the curtain was rung down at the same track
I'VE months ago. Judging by the entries for the
various races announced yesterday II viii be a
ntting opening 10 a season which is particularly
bright with promise for high class racing.
II is not long ago that the course at Aque-
duct was narrow and confined, and the Carter
Handicap. the feature Of the opening day. was
q S709 race, Now all is changed The club has
been progressive and the track is now one OF
she best and safest in the circuit in which the
Garter Handicap has risen 10 the dignity OF a
$4,000 stake, for which some Of the best horses
sn training are pointed. The real opening OF
the season used TO come when the Westchester
Racing Association threw open its gates. but
the honor now belongs TO the Queens County
.yockey Club in fact as well as in name
The Carter Handicap, for three-year- ana
upward. is at seven furlongs and will be run
as the fourth race tomorrow. Nineteen horses
have been sent out as probable starters for the
Eich prize. and il is possible that one or more
may be added at the last minute Inc heId Il
good one and suggests rare treat Tor me
thousands who viii go down 10 see the race de-
cided II will be the tenth renewal OF the nAl-
slre On the roll Of winners are such good horses
as The Manxman, Duke Of Middleburg, BOX
Motley. Ethics. Ahumada, Beldame' Ormonoe
Right and Roseben- The record Tor the race i
s:26, made by Box in 1900. ROseben. wlllch won
last year in a stirring drive with southern
Gross, the distance in 1926 20. Win q Iasl
track Tomorrow new mark Is HKeiy, =. ~
OF the nineteen horses which are hkely 10 20
90 the post tomorrow ten at least can lay Claim
20 a class, which means so much 10 the average
ERcegoer. D. c Johnson's Roseben and Pau
T. Rainey's entry De Aund and Heaslip, are
&kely 10 be about equal favoTite. around 10 l.
according 10 a well known layer. Roseben, the
great weight carrying Splinter, which holds the
best American records for six furlongs on
circular track, Of iii 3D. and for seven 1ur-
eongs. OF 1:22, Is at top weight, with loo pounds
He won the race last year under 10 pounds
but lightning rarely strikes twice in the same
place. He viii not lack for followers however,
as he has been working Wei under the careIul
direction Of Frank Weir, clever trainer he
IS reported TO have turned five furlongs in l:Ol
A. few days ago. which indicates that he is ready.
De Mund for which Mr.. Rainey paid $4,000
last year, has had a careful preparation at
Benning, and the railbirds who have seen him
Rallop viii bet on him tO a man. He has filled
out over winter and is said 10 be ready for his
best effort He was timed six furlongs in lilo
over the slow track at Benning a few days ago,
(which speaks for itself. After being more or less
OF a disappointment last year. De Mund won the
United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga and
fan third in the futurlty, beaten neck and
q head by Elecuoneer and Pope Joan, and then
won the Flatbush Stakes.
The horses which are most likely TO give stir
ring battle TO Roseben and De Mund are oxford.
Gloriher Brookdale Nymph. Don Diego, Okenite.
Pretension and Malacca. Juggler, Rye and
Coincidence are being whispered about also
some good works. The others 10 all appear
Rnces are ouJclassed.
Oxford showed that he was ready by making
a show OF his field at Benning on Friday when
he won, under l26 pounds, in the good time for
one mile of 1:4325. The track was slow He
was beaten a few days before by Okenite at a
difference Of thirteen pounds actual weight, and
viii have ten pounds more in his favor to-mor-
ToW- Don Diego, Okenite's stable companion
also qualified for the Carter by a good perform
Rnoe at Benning and the chairman Of the Jockey
Club holds a strong hand
GloTifer, which has been racing well at New
now that he has come back 10 the form he
showed rs q tHr0- T-old, he deserves consider
alton. as he has plenty Of class John J. Rogers,
a past muster III getting a horse ready 10 win
Whitney's BraOkdale Nymph, q speedy mare, in
the South While little is known Of her condi-
fion, she viii hear watching if she goes TO the
post Malacc9 winner of the First Benning
Spring Handle is in with a feather on his
back, but on last years form he cannot be con-
Eidered in the same class with De Mund Pre-
tension has been raced into condition al Hot
Springs, and has outside chance as from
handicap standpoint he is in particularly well
The rest Of the programme tomorrow is Of
a kind TO insure good sport. No less than eighty
five horses have been entered in the six races
which indicates that there are plenty Of horses
ready 10 go 10 the post in spite of the late
The entries, other than the Carter Handicap.
foIloW:
FIRST RAcESellng. FOR thTee-year-olds and upward:
500 added Five f1Tlongs
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