Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01
$1,000, IN
BIG EVENTS
THREE HANDIcAPS CALL OUT
VALUABLE FIELDS
keens Candidates, Colin, Ballot and
CeIt, Honored in Weights Assigned
by Vosburgh-Seventy-four
Are Named

Are Named
NEW YORK, Feb. 29-It is esti-
mated that close to $1,OOO,OOO in thor
oughbreds has been named to start in
the three big handicaps of the season.
the Brooklyn, Suburban and Brighton
Beach-seventy-fou of the best horses
in training being included in the list.
James R. Keene, whose great racing
stable won more than s4OO,OOO in stakes
and purses last year. is represented in
these handicaps by Ballot, four-year-
old chestnut colt by Voter Cerito; Su-
perman, a four-year-old colt by Com
mando-Anomaly; Colin, a three-year-
OLD colt by -Pastorella;
Gretna Green, a four-year-old brown
gelding by Ben Brush Runaway Girl;
Celt, a three-year-old chestnut colt by
Commando Maid of Erin; Transvaal. a
three-year-old bay colt by Commando
Royal Rose, and Restigouche, a three
year-old black gelding by Commando
Dancing Water. In point of value
these horses probably excel the others.
Mr.. keene made 1t quite plain that
money could not buy Colin, who, In his
opinion, is the greatest race horse in
the world today.
If, therefore, there is no price upon
Colin but an offer of 100000 would be
declined, it Is fair to assume that Celt,
another superb son of Commando is
not so very far behind Colin as to
value. Celt came to hand so Impress
lively when he ran second to Colin i'm
the Flatbush stakes last fall and then
defeated the 100000 Uncle I'M the Junior
Champion stakes a week later, that he
was readily pronounced the second best
two-year-old of the year.
In assigning the weights for the three
big handicaps w. S. Vosburgh plainly
showed that his estimate of the Keene
candidates were at top notch. Mr..
Vosburgh gave what is known as top
weight III actual pounds to Ballot who
will be asked to carry 126 pounds in
each event unless he is compelled to
pick up a penalty. But as far as the
Brooklyn handicap is concerned Colin,
according to the scale of weights in
May, must concede two pounds to Bal
lot, Collins impost being Ill, which in
cludes two pounds on the scale.
AS Colin, therefore, carries top
weight according to the scale, it may
be seen that Mr.. Vosburgh rates him
as the best race horse named for the
Brooklyn, although, of course, 1t is
that officials task to so weight the
horses that all of them may have an
equal chance of winning. Conceding
two points, therefore, Colin gives five
pounds to Celt, his stablemate. But
at the same time Colin comedies four
pounds to the noted Salvidere, who
conquered Ballot on several occasions
last year. Colin is also asked to give
six pounds by the scale to the Pat
chogue stables Nealon and Charles
Edward and six to Uncle, 3-year-
old, by Star Shott-The Niece, who is
rated just behind Celt in point of
racing prowess.
Colin Considered Better
Mr.. Vosburgh considers Colin eight
pounds better than Montgomery, win
ner of the Burns handicap at Oakland
recently, and Glorifier, the Hastings
horse who captured the Carter and
Metropolitan handicaps last spring;
nine pounds better than Lawrence p.
Daley and Notasulga, both good g
year-olds in 1907; ten pounds better
than Jim Gaffney, winner of the Hope
full stakes last August; eleven pounds
better than Superman, his stablemate,
and the $4,000 mare Running Water,
who ran Salvidere to head in the
Brighton Cup last October
Colin conceded twelve pounds to the
3-year-olds Fair Play and Royal Tour
list, and is asked to give thirteen pounds
by the scale to DR.. Gardner, the 5000
Bannockburn colt which captured the
1907 Excelsior handicap; also thirteen
pounds to King James, John E. Mad
den's best 3-year-old, and to Firestone.
the California colt which won the first
part of the rich double event at the
bay last June.
Colin must cCncede fourteen pounds
in scale weight to Dandelion, a game
son of Hamburg, which is a consistent
but unlucky handicap horse, and the
same to Dave Johnsons Senator Clay,
which did not apparently class with
Dandelion last year.
Collins concession to the Oneck
stables good colt Cohort is fifteen
pounds. while he gives sixteen to w.
Fl. Carey, Sir Huon, Cottontown, Jack
Atkin, Falcada, Master Robert Run
Handicapped makes him seventeen
pounds better than the Newcastle
stables McCarter, which was a pretty
high class 3-year-old. Blue Book,
Riheman and Gretna Green, while
eighteen pounds to DeMund and Resti-
gouche is not considered too great a
task. Collins biggest concession in the
Brooklyn is forty-three pounds to
Flimnap, a selling platter of some class.
The suburban allotments show that
Mr.. Vosburgh places Colin and Ballot
the scale of weights, Ballot 4-year-
old, with III. The June scale adds
two pounds to the 3-year-old weights.
while it takes one pound off horses 5
years and over. That means, therefore.
that Colin and Ballot. picking up the
same scale weight, concede only three
pounds to Nealon and four to Charles
Edward, but they both give five
pounds to Celt and six to Uncle, also
seven to Frank Gill and eight to
Electioneer.
In the Brighton handicap, which is
run in July, another shift in the weight
scale makes Ballot concede two pounds
to Colin, which gets In with liz pounds
as against the prescribed ia. Uealon
also gives pound to Colin, which In
turn meets Salvidere at even weights
and comedies two pounds to Charles
allowances being made to all
of the others.