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A. GRKAT BAG K 1 HIS WEEK. Tho Brighton Beach Cup will be decided next Saturday. It is a sweepstakes with ,000 added. Tho distance is two miles and a quarter, three-jear-olds to carry 106 pounds; four-year-olds, 124, and five-year-olds and upward, 127. Groat interest is felt concerning the issue of the race about which S. B. Weems has the following in the Morning Telegraph : "The more promising candidates left in the Cup, and from which the field of starters will come, are Don dOro, Bangle, May HempBtead, Briar Sweet, St. Cloud, George Boyd, Goodrich, Latson, Warrenton, George Keene, Beula, Jean Beraud, Box. Pink Coat, Rappahannock and Previous. Of these Don dOro, Bangle, St. Cloud, George Boyd, Warrenton and George Keene may be set down as having the best chances to go to the post. If no more than half a dozen of the pick are eligible to start, the race is bound to be a good one. George Keene George Boyd and St. Cloud are on form probably the bast stayers of the lot, but still many of the others, such as Warrenton, Bangle, May Hempstead, Briar Sweet, etc., while thsy have not won at the distance, have done all that has been asked of them over shorter routes, and may be expected to acquit themselves in the Cup if they go to the post. "Earlier in the season Messrs. Headley and Norton thought that a distance of ground was just what May Hempstead wanted, and at that time it was their baliaf that she would show to advantaga in the Cup. What their opinion may be now, or as to whether they will start the filly, I do not know. Don dOro has been getting a special preparation for this race, and while he has not gone tha distance, still at a mile and a quarter he has reeled off the fur longs in a way to indicate that ho would go on. George Boyd has baen getting his preparation in his races, and St. Cloud, too, will likaly be wound up to concert pitch by Saturday. "Last year Hamburg, it will be remembered, wn with comparative ease from Ogden and Howard Mann, and the year before The Friar, then a three-year-old. won from Sunny Slope and Ban Brush. In the we3t, as here, long dis-tanca racing is growing in favor. At New Orleans, Latonia, Hawthorne and Harlem two mile races are frequent features of the program. It is true they have no very high class horses in the west that have won over this distance, but a lot of useful animals are getting a training as stayers, so that in a short time there is bound to ba plenty of material to draw from in the filling of these events."
