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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Mr Vosburgs Obscures assignment of weights to the liorses clitorises engaged in the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps besides giving horsemen something to talk about each spring also serves as inspir inspire ¬ ing King notice of the fact that springtime and re ¬ sumption gumption of active racing operations are draw ¬ ing King near The weights published Tuesday make the usual display of skill in adjustment within the all too narrow limits characteristic of hand ¬ icapping capping in this country In the Brooklyn there are forty pounds between the top and bot boot ¬ tom weigfits weights and thirtynine thirty in the Suburban This is not sufficient to bring a good horse and a bad horse together yet it is the usual practice and so has the sanction of custom All horsemen expected that Ben Brush and Ornament would be the topweightsin stoplights this years Brooklyn and Suburban They will be inter ¬ ested bested in noting that on the basis of weight for age Mr Vosburg rates Ornament a pound bet ¬ ter tear than Ben Brush These horses met but once last year and that was when in the Fourth Spe Spec ¬ cial cal at Gravesend Graves September 25 Ben Brush Carrying 126 pounds to Ornaments 118 beat him three lengths in 210 over a slow track Previ Prevail ¬ ously lousily over a fast track Ornament had beaten a great field in the Twin City Handicap doing the distance with ease in 205i carrying 118 pounds Ornament is probably a faster horse than Brush and as between the pair the weights are apparently about what they should be Declarations from these two races will be made Fob 21 and until it is known what horses are to be left in it is of small valua value to comment on their apparent comparative chances In a general way it may be said that none of the 3 yearolds earls have any very rosy prospects of suc such ¬ cess Great as Henry of Navarre Navarro was he could not win the Brooklyn with only 100 Ibs Dibs up and yet a few months later he could have given the winner Dr Kice Ice weight and a beating without difficulty These races are run too early in the year for 3yearolds to contend successfully with their better developed and more seasoned elders and besides the 3yearolds are always too harshly handicapped On his best form Tillo Till 118 is nicely weighted weightedMr weighted Mr Schorr Scorer could hardly ask for more favor ¬ able imposts than have been assigned to Mead owthorpe nowhere 108 and Macy Marcy 105 The two Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica cracks The Eoman Oman 107 and Fleur Flour de Lis Lisa 104 have apparently been let in very light but they are more than 3000 miles away and no matter what theii Heidi form may be in California Mr Vosburg knows it is a very difficult thing to transport them over the long and harrassing harassing journey to New York without deterioration and no doubt makes due allowance for that j element in alloting allotting weights Typhoon II is well in at 114 and if he comes out in his best form this season will give Bromley Brome Co a royal chance for the big races Other horses that seem to be well treated are Box 100 a horse of the most phenomenal speed but very bad tem ¬ pered perked and unreliable Senator Bland 109 a good race horse Merry Prince 105 a really fine yearold earl in 1896 Ogden 109 a failure last year yearu year u one who this year may show that his Futur Future ¬ ity city victory was no fluke On the whole the handicaps will stand against any amount of dis dais ¬ cussion cession and dissection
