Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-30
Great FUTURITY
run TOMORROW
Colin Is Expected TO Annex
the Big Purse for the
Keene Stables

NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-The great
Futurity, worth about $4,000 will be
run over the x-furlong straight
course at Sheepshead Bay tomorrow,
the opening day of the Coney Island
Jockey clubs autumn meeting. 1t is
the banner event of the metropolitan
racing season and always draws the
largest and most enthusiastic crowd
of the year Even in the most dismal
weather the beautiful course has been
packed on Futurity day, and this year
plans have been made to accommo-
date 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
favorite will undoubtedly be Colin,
James r. Keene's unbeaten son of
| Commando. Colin has started six
has been returned an easy winner. At
no time has he been extended, though
on several occasions he has shown a
tendency to loaf. Beginning at an
! overnight event at Belmont Park,
which he captured in a gallop, the
lion stakes, the Eclipse stakes, the
Great Trial stakes the Brighton Jun
Tor stakes and the Grand Union Hotel
stakes, incidentally taking the measure
of all the best youngsters yet shown.
Regarded as Race of Year.
This will be the twentieth running
of the Futurity, which is the largest
stake offered in this country for horses
! OF late years the event has come to
most race followers outside the regu-
lar 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 en-
try 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 exception.
The stake was started in 1888, and
the very first is deemed in some re-
spects the best of the series, Proctor
Knott defeating the mighty Salvador
in a great race and winning fortune
for his owner, who was accounted a
poor man to be in such company. The
race in 1891, when His Highness de-
feated Yorkville Belle and Dagonet,
was another one to be remembered.
In 1893 Domino and Dobbins were the
contenders, beginning then their re-
markable 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 of
turf form. Since then colts like Bal
lyhoo Bey, Savable, whose chief claim
to notice was as a son of Salvador,
Hamburg Belle. Artful Ormondale and
Electioneer have captured the stake,
fully rewarding the hopes of ma
JOrlty OF the students OF IoFIn
Chance to Earn 100000.
Should Colin capture the big event
tomorrow, it will mean that he has
won for James r. Keene. his owner
the enormous sum Of 100000 in one
season. When Colin won the Saratoga
Special a few weeks ago he increased
his earnings for the season to $59,555
There are not more than score OF
horses in turf history that have won
500. 900 in their entire career OF
racing, so it can readily be under
stood what great feat Colin will &C
complish should he end his 2-year-old
career with 100000 to his credit In
fact there have been few horses thai
have won $59,555 during their 2-year-
old career. So it is not to be wonder
ed at that many turf critics share Mr.
Keenes opinion that Colin is the su.
perior of the late Sysonby or the grea
Domino.