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THK SUBURBAN TODAY. Thi9 is one of the red letter days of the turf . year because it is Suburban day in the east, , while out here in the west the St. Louis Derby and the Latonia Oaks command attention. The Suburban is the most important and promises to furnish a rarely attractive contest between the best handicap horses of the day. Opinion about it in the east is well represented by the following from the New York Sun, of last Monday : "What seems to be the general sentiment among horsemen was voiced by one of the veterans watching the gallopers yesterday when he said : " Let Ethelbert, Jean Beraud and Imp go to the post ami we dont care what else starts. I dont mean to say that these three hold the others safe at t lie weight.-., but they have attracted so much attention recently that a decisive meeting between them would furnish one of the red-letter chapters in the history of the race. This seems to be Imps long-looked-for opportunity. Her trainer and part owner, Charles Brossman, has been clamoring for a chance at Ethelbert. Jean Beraud is also due for another go at the Belmont champion, and we all hope that they will have it out on Saturday. " This illustrious trio will goto the po6t and with them much other gallant and highly tried company, the announced list of jockeys and probable riders being as follows : Horses. Age. Jockeys. Wt-s. Ethelbert 4 Maher 130 | Imp 6 Clawson 128 Jean Beraud 4 Turner 127 • Kinley Mack 4 McCue 125 i John Bright 5 Spencer 119 Prince McClurg 4 OConnor 117 ; Rafaello 4 Jenkins ..113 Intrusive 5 Bullman Ill Petruchio 3 Ranch 102 Survivor 4 Odom 100 Sarmatian 3 Henry .t9 Herbert 3 Mitchell 96 This is a grand field and the race is bound to be of uncertain issue. Ethelbert, Kinley Mack, , Jean Beraud and Herbert were tried out I Wednesday. An eastern exchange reports results - as follows : "The first of the great ones to have a preparatory ■ try for the Coney Island Jockey Clubs big : handicap was P. Belmonts Ethelbert, whom i trainer Joyner ushered out at the break of day I and sent a mile and a quarter in 2:08. The fractional time of the trip was as follows : Furlong, - 12i seconds ; three furlongs, 38 ; half , 51 ; ; five fnrlongs, 1:03; six furlongs, 1:16; seven furlongs. 1 :28*s, mile. 1 :41 ; mile and a furlong, 1 :544 ; mile and a quarter, 2:08. Maher was in 1 the saddle and the move was a grand one from 1 every point of view. "Trainer P. Wimmer, who has a couple of the 5 most prominent Suburban eligibles in hie barn, , gave them their winding up gallop in a fast t way. Jean Beraud was asked a mile and a t quarter in 2:09*. and did it in the following f style: Furlong, 13 seconds ; quarter. 25i ; three i furlongs, 38; half. 51; five furlongs, 1 :03, ; six f furlongs, 1 :ltii ; seven furlongs, 1 :29v ; mile, , 1 :43i ; mile and a furlong. 1 :56i ; mile and a i quarter, 2:09i. Kinley Macks mile and a quarter - effort was done, in 2:1U. Fractionally f taken, the Brooklyn Handicap winner showed: Furlong, I2i seconds; quarter, 24; three furlongs, - 36i ; half, 49; five furlongs, 1:02; six furlongs, - l:15i; seven furlongs, 1281; mile, 1 :42j ; ; mile and a furlong, 1:56,; mile and a quarter, , 2:lli. "Walter Rollins eligible, Herbert, got his s preparation the afternoon before in the shape 3 of a mile and a quarter turn in 2:11. He carried - more than the 96 pounds which is his allotment - in the race and performed creditably." . , John Bright was tried over the Latonia track c before his shipment east, when with his subur ban weight up he went the required distance I in a highly satisfactory fashion in2:09i. Some 9 of the fractions being: six furlong, 1:14] ; mile, i, 1 :42I ; one and one-eighth mile, 1 :56. Imp was s given her trial in her race of Wednesday, when a with 126 pounds up she won from a field of f lightly weighted horses with great ease in 2 :08. , • It was as impressive in the way of a public c trial as the most exacting of her admirers could have desired.
