Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-23
TEN MIS-
WILL COLIN
BE STARTER?
KEENE MAY NOT SEND COLT TO
POST FOR BROOKLYN
celt and Ballot Are Both Ready to
Carry White and Blue Spots
In Early Season
Classic

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-On Thursday
the declarations from the Brooklyn,
suburban and Brighton handicaps will
be announced by the different racing
organizations, and the followers of the
racing game will have better oppor-
tunity to figure the winners of the
rich events. The most important part
of the destinations will be to determine
whether James r. Keene will send out
his unbeaten Colin In the BROOKLYN OF
walt for the other two classics.
Although the son of Commando is
without peer in his class, in the
minds of many 1T is asking a great deal
to send him to the post so early where
he will meet seasoned horses over a
| distance of ground. II Colin refuses to
face the starter in the main event at
Gravesend, the Keene stable will not
be without good representative. Bal
lot, which gave a good account of HIM
self last year as a three-year-old. may
carry the white and blue spots.
There is another big horse among the
keene eligibles that cannot be over
looked. This Is CeIt, the three-year-old
Communicable of Erin colt Celt did
not have any hard races last season.
In his two starts he gave evidence of
possessing great speed, and was the
second best two-year-old shown He
ran as IL he could cover a distance of
ground, and II it is left to him to keep
up the honor of the Keene stable in the
three-year-old class he will do it cred
itably.
win Stay In These
In the Suburban and Brighton it is
hardly probable that any of the Keene
eligibles will be declared. These stakes
are run late enough to enable any horse
to get in the best of shape, and as a
horse, no matter how good he is, can
go to the bad very easily, 1t would not
be policy for stable sheltering as
many stars as Keene's to take the
slightest chance of declaring the wrong
runner.
OF the other entrants to the "big
three" there will be few scratches. The
entry lists are smaller this year than
in many previous seasons, and owners
will be willing to risk $125 forfeit and
scratch their racer the day of the event
if necessary.
One feature of these three rich
events, from present indications, is
that the coveted honors will be fought
out by high-class fields. This year.
in fact, better number of game thor
oughbreds could not be selected than
is mentioned in the entry list. With
Ballot, Colin, Colt, Nealon, Montgomery,
DIR. Gardner and Frank Gill wearing
colors In a race, there would hardly
be room enough to accommodate the
crowd that would journey to a race
course to see them in battle of speed
In addition to the above mentioned,
there are several other eligibles that
would have to be figured upon in any
contest
Fine Crop of Youngsters
With the fairly good number of two
years ODDS racing at New Orleans and
in the west, the old story about young
ting no figure in the east is likely TO
the millionaire turfman, has shown the
the manner in which he is annexing
all the good purses, and most of them
have strong claims to class.
When they come north they will be
we'll seasoned, and If the owners up
here do rot send their best to the post
In the early events. It is not improbable
handsomely. At Oakland, it is claimed
clever youngsters, and he feels con-
care of by his two-year- olds.
All the large stables at the different
Long Island courses are said to har-
Dor world and it looks as If
the young crop will be a close second
to the good lot that was uncovered
last season. Keene is said to have
will need to have a worthy successor
clean up as well as he did with Colin.