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FUTURITY WINNERS. The Futurity of 1899 will pass into turf hietory next Saturday. It is a very open race this year. No Potomac, His Highness, Morello or Domino has cropped up in tbe 2-year-old division of the season to fill the position of universally recognized ante-post favorite. Indeed so open in appearance is the race that it is now deemed probable that fully thirty youngsters will go to the post to contend for the glory and pelf of the most valuable 2-year-old race of the American turf The first Futurity was run in 1888. Quite a number of good two- ear-olds were out that 3 ear. Chicago took a particular interest in the race b cause a comparatively dark one was given the grand prf p " at Washington Park and shipped east in the confident belief that he had a chance to win second to none of those likely to start. That was "Uncle" Jim Grays fast Faustus colt, Gnlen. Secretary Brewster took the greatest interest in the colts preparation and always believed he would have won had he ben taken eaBt by expie33 over the quick and level New York Central route instead of by slow freight over the rough and tiring Baltimore and Ohio. Galen, with much more weight an than he had to carry in the race, had worked five furlongs at Washington Park in a minute fiat and three-quarters in 1:14. It seemed good enough for any company and cost those on the inside large slices of their reserve capital. The colt arrived at the track greatly fatigued by his journey, and the day before the race was in such a high fever that he bad to be given a steam bath to reduce his temperature. Even at such disadvantage he ran a eallant third to such grand racehorses as Proctor Knott and Salvator. The majority of those who witnessed the race thought Galen would have won with a good jockey up. Enoch Turner rode him, and at his best poor Turner was not much as a rider. When the horses turned into the straght run for the winning wire Galen had a good lead and was going like tbe wind. The magnitude of the prize, almost in hand, probably rattled Turner, who, for no apparent reasoo, suddenly took Galen across from the inside to tbe outside of the track. In doing this he lo3t, as was afterward computed, fully thirty feet. At tbe finish Proctor Knott beat Salvator a half length, while on the other side of the track Galen was lapped on. Goodwins Guide says, "one length between second and third," but Goodwins Guide is wrong. There was no daylight between the three and had Turner kept a straight course with Galen, there is no reason to doubt that Jim Gray would have taken in he 0,900 that went to the first horse instead of Sam Bryant, But thou, Sam is a good fellow himself and had use in his business for that 0,900 that his blaze faced Old Prrcor" brought homo that day. Tbe second Futurity was more valuable than tbe first, it being worth 4 550 to tbe winner Chaos. It was like this, a your of mediocrity so far as the two-year-olds were concerned. Chao3, a son of Baj on dOr was the property of the Pennsylvania capitalist and politician W. L. Scott and a fairly good but never a high- class raceuorse, St. Carlo who ran second was better. The Futurity of the next year was notable for one thing and that was, that it brought the greaest t-um of motey to the winner that any Futurity has realized. When Mr. Belmonts majfbtic colt, Potomac, cantered past the judges the easiest of winners he aleo oorichod bis owners bank account to the tune of 7,675, quite a ti y sum of money to have lying handy. As Potomacs stable comptnion, M sher, appropriated second mon y, it was quite a good Futurity for Mr. Belmont and his clever trainer, Jimmy Bowe. Potomac was a prand colt and worthy to win such a glittering badge of honor. Gideon and Daly led away the winner of the fourth Futurity when their crack- colt His Highness, sire of last years crack Jean Beraud, swept past the winning mark with the crushing impost of 130 pounds in tbe Baddle. The race that year was worth 1,675 to the winner. Since then it has only once bsen above the 0,-000 line. The race that year was sensational in many ways. There was a number of slashing good two-year-olds out, and when it is noted that such good ones as His Highness, Huron, Yorkville Belle, Dagonot, Lamplighter, Osric, Merry Monarch, Tammany and Lester were in the field of twenty-two starters, it can be readily perceived that it was an exceptionally high-class aggregation, one sure to evoke an extraordinary measure of enthusiasm. To add to this Mr. Corrigan had secured the aid of the courts to enable his fine colt Huron to Btart. Huron had been declared by Mr. John J. Carter acting as agent for BHe Meade farm, where the colt was bred. Mr. Corrigan contended Carter had no authority for this action and that it was void, but the Coney Island Jockey Club held that Huron was properly declared out and not eligible to start. So Mr. Corrigan secured an order from one of the New York courts directing that Huron should start, ani start he did and ran second to His Highness. But ha was ignored iu the placing et the finish and Tork villa Belle was placed secoid aadDigouet third. How Mr Corrigm saad for second money, and after much litigation failed to wiu his case is one of the well known episodes of turf history. One of the greatest racehorses that ever stood on iron was next in the line of succession to Futurity honors. People who go to the races in Chicago do not need to be told what a phenomenon of speed,stamina and courage Morello was. Probably the greatest race ever run in America was that in which, when as a 3-year-old he conceded lumps of weight to a splendid fi Id in the Wheeler Handicap at Washington Park and with 117 pounds up ran a mile and a quarter in 2:05. It was certainly a greater performance than that of Salvator when ha scored the same time in his memorable match, with Tenny Morello was a sick horse when be won the Futurity, but that did not prevent him from running away from Lady Violet and fifteen other starters and winning off by himself in the fastest time that had then ever been recorded for the event. The Futurity that year only realized 0,450, but Frank Van Ness thought it was a plenty. The flying black wonder, Domino, with hia invincible habit of taking in everything in sight in his two-year-old form, added the Futurity of 1893 to the wonderful list of victories that made him the winner of more money than any horse that has ever run in this country. It was of the net value of 9,350. Fillies had been knocking at the door for this race from the beginning, but it was not until 1894 that one succeeded, The Butterflies winning for lucky Gideon and Daly from an indifferent field. The quality of the field, however, does not detract from the met it of her victory, for on other occasions she demonstrated her high class. Forty-eight thousand seven hundred and ten dollars was the return for the Futurity that Iyear. In 1895 the splendid colt Requital was first with the California champion Crescendo second. It was a rich plum that yaar, worth 3,- 190. Since then tho successive victories of Og-J den, LAloaetio end Martimas art of too recent . occurrence to justify comment at length. Tho value to Ogden was 3,790, to LAlouotte 4,-290, and. to Martimas 6,610.
