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CAN ADMIRATION BE BEATEN? The question now occupying the attention of eastern horsemen, almost to the exclusion of everything else, is: "What three-year-old can beat Admiration?" This remarkable racing machine has set the most conservative follow-ers of the sport guessing, and with nothing but winning form on which to figure, there i3 no accurate means cf estimating just how fast and far the filly can go when fairly extended all the way. It iB not many weeks since the now noted daughter of Kingston Hypocrite was a maiden in the string of John E. Madden, who had pur-chassd her from W. P. Norton. On the strength of a couple of startling private trials at Morris Park, just before the close of the Westchester Racing Associations spring meeting, Sydney Paget paid a fancy price for the filly, and the investment has already proved a gold mine. Admiration made her three-year-old debut at the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs meeting on May 31, in a six-furlong dash for fillies. The conditions let her in at 96 pounds, and, in the hands of Odom, she won in a canter from Clon-silla, 4, 111; LAlouette, 4, 111; Lambent, 6, 119; Theory. 3, 96; Cleophus, 5, 129; Whip-laeh, 3, 113: Onondagas Pride, 3, ICS, and Our Annie, 3, 96. Tho time was 1:14, but critics were not yet convinced that Mr. Paget had secured the star filly of tho year. Admirations next effort, however, showed her quality in an impressive manner. The race was the Spring Special at GraveseDd on June 7, and with ICO pounds up and Odom again riding, she won cleverly over the one mile and one-sixteenth course in the remarkable time of l:46h the present record for the track. Behind her were Ethelbert, 3, 112; Tragedian, 5, 115, and Can-dleblack, 4, 115. Her next essay was in a six-furlong sprint at Sheepshead Bay on June 19, and by this time her merit -waB so generally recognized that the bookmakers held her at 1 to 4. She carried 110 pounds, and ridden by the regular stable jockey, Clawaon, won in a gallop from Prestidigitatrice, 3, 115; Abuee, 6, 123, and Ben lladad, 4, 128, the time being 1 :13g. This was on the same day signalized by the eaetorn debut of May Hompstead, who won the one-mile event in 1:39H and inspired the discussion that led to laEt Saturdays sensational duel. June 21 Admiration tried the even mile and once more won with consummate ease, in the hands of Simms. She carried 111 pounds, and smply played with Kirkwood, Pirate M.. The Kentuckian and Dan Cupid. The time was 1 :41. Then her speed waB put to a crucial test, and on June 26 she was pitted against some of tho fastest sprinters hereabouts in a dash of five and a half furlongs. Tho result was the when Odom let her same, as she came away and spread-eagled the lot in 1:07J. Then came the defeat of May Hempstead ana a match with Ethelbert, the winner of yester-days Realization, is likely some ten days hence. She will probably find, should she race against Ethelbert, that he is a tougher proposition than May Hempstead.
