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BROOKLYN HANDICAP STARTERS. The Brooklyn Handicap will be decided to morrow. Apparently it will be contested by a field extraordinary in number and up to the highest grade as to quality. The reported trials of many of the probable starters have been such as to arouse public expectation of a remarkable contest to the highest pitch of interest and with a fair day the attendance will be something enormous. For the first time since the institution of the race, it is conceded that it may be carried off by a three-year-old and this unusual circumstance is an added touch of interest. According to the New York Herald Ben Holladay, Algol, Box, Bangle. Fleur de Lis, Don dOro, Imp, Peep oDay, The Huguenot, Handball, Previous, Firearm, Lanky Bob, Bana-star, Pink Coat, Howard Mann, Ahom, Autumn, Filigrane and Jean Beraud are already posted as starters by Secretary Mclntyre, and if this bunch goes to the post it will be by odds the best field that has ever run in the Gravesend event. Of the trials of two of the three-year-olds that are counted upon as prominent factors in the big race the Sun of Wednesday says : "The wonderful trials of Jean Beraud and Filigrane yesterday morning at the Morris Park racetrack for the Belmont Stakes and Brooklyn Handicap have rarely, if ever, been equaled by any three-year-old in this country. The time of each colts work was so close that a match race between the pair would create great excitement. Jean Beraud, who is entered for both the Belmont Stakes and Brooklyn Handicap, showed that he was in much better form than when he won the Withers Stakes, for he covered one mile and a quarter in 2:07ยป. The track was fast, but there was a harassing wind blowing, which was decidedly against the progress of the colt. The fractional times of his trial were: eighth, 12* ; quarter, 24; three-eighths, 36* ; half, 48*; five-eighths, 1:01; three-quarters, 1:14; seven-eighths, 1:28; one mile, 1:41, and one mile and an eighth, 1 :54. "Filigrane went the same distance in 2:08:. He had the speedy Prestidigitatrice to make the running for him, and, as she had only 90 pounds up against 118 pounds carried by Filigrane, the filly set out at a terrific pace, covering the first eighth in :11*. The quarter was done in :23, three-eighths in :35*, half in :48*. five-eighths in 1:01*, three-quarters in 1:141, seven-eighths in 1:28*, one mile in 1:41*, and one mile and an eighth in 1 :55. Filigrane was quite tired at the finish. It was the opinion of experienced horsemen who saw the trial that had Filigrane 98 pounds up, which is the impost he is called on to carry in the Brooklyn Handicap, he could have worked the one mileandaquarterin2.06."
