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CIEVER FOKECAST OK WEIGHTS In accordance with its usual custom The Spirit of the Times publishes the Brooklyn Suburban and Brighton Handicaps weights figured by Mr C J Jones of New York one of the most expert ama ¬ teur handicappers of this country Ho served as official handicapper during the latter part of the Brighton meeting of 1897 and some of his best work was in the races won by Howard Mann at one and oneeighth miles Isabey six furlongs Salabar five furlongs Thomas Cat a mile and Sallio Cliquot a mile all with the track deep in mud For a num ¬ ber of years Mr Jones has sent to the Spirit of the Times his handicaps a couple of weeks before the official allotment of weights by the handicapper of the Jockey Club Mr W S Vosburgh and the high ¬ est compliment that could be paid to them has been accorded them on several occasions through the fact that the weights assigned by Mr Jones have been found to approximate most closely to those later allotted by Mr Vosburgh Mr Jones trial weights for this years big handicaps are as follows Subur Bright Banastar 128 Ballyhoo Bey 127 127 Water Color 126 126 Alcedo 125 124 Blues 124 124 Herbert 123 122 Gold Heels 121 121 Advance Guard Ten Candles Boehampton McMeekin Bonnibert Garry Hermann Hernando Irritable Caviar Elkhorn Water Cure Dublin His Eminence Silverdale Brigadier Dr Barlow Lady Schorr Emporium Hindus Toddy Black Fox Kamara Carbuncle Withers Endurance Heno RightHeno by Right Decanter Mischievous i Baron Pepper i The Rhymer 1 Six Shooter Autolight Royal Flush Gulden Blue Girl Colonel Padden Trigger Oom Paul The Regent Morningside All Gold Argregor L Alard Scheck Goldseeker Lanceman Reina Pentecost Chilton Flywheel Flying Torpedo j Brutal Dixieline Petrall 3 SadieS Monograph Contend Slipthrift Ethics Arden Wealth Port Royal Flora Pomona Keynote I Alsike Sunshower Northern Star i Haximola
