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HARLEM NATIONAL HANDICAP. Reports from owners and trainers indicate a field of at least, twenty horses for the 0,-000 Harlem Nat»nal Handicap, to be run next Saturday, th% opening day of the Harlem Jockey Clubs spring meeting. Thirty-one, with weights ranging from Mc-Chesneys 127 pounds down to Manrus featherweight of 90, are at present listed as likely to start, and Secretary Nathanson doubts if more than one-third of these will be absentees when the bugle calls the field to the post for Harlems great race Saturday afternoon. Besides, there always is the chance for an added starter or two. Post time for the Harlem National Handicap will be not later than 3:45 p. m., the Secretary having determined to place the big race third on the card, so that many who may go out to Harlem park just to witness the running of the handicap will have the opportunity to return to the city early. This also will tend to relieve the congestion after the fifth and sixth races. • McChesney, Lucien Appleby, Allan-a-Dale, Runnels, Belles Commoner, Hernando, Glen "Water, Au Revoir and Linguist are believed to be sure to start, unless training accidents should unfortunately keep some of them from going to the post. Without any others, these would make a high-class contest, but several good handicap horses more lightly weighted must be reckoned with. There are Evea G., Alabarch, Judge Himes, RedComyn, Little Scout, Picquart, Flying Torpedo, Fav-onius, Dr. Stephens, Inventor, Potheen and Epicure, all being specially prepared for the great struggle next Saturday, and any one of them has a good a chance at the weights to carry off the rich prize. When declarations became due on April 6, 97, of the 111 entries accepted the weights assigned by Secretary Nathanson. All of these ninety-seven are eligible to run, but the following are the most likely: Horses. Age. Wt. Jockeys. McChesney 4 127. " Lucien Appleby. ... 4 122. Henry Nitrate 5 121 Hernando 5 120. ! "Beauchamp Runnels 4 116 T. Meade Allan-a-Dale 4 116... Crowhurst Belles Commoner.. 4 115 T Knitrht Glen Water 4 115 Landry Inventor— 4 Ill Jiminez 5 m..J."winkfieid Favonius 7 110 C Gray Flying Torpedo 5 110... Birkenruth Alabarch 4 107 Houbre Jack Demund 4 100 Au Revoir 3 105 Helgesen Little Scout- 4 105 Coburn Dr. Stephens 5 105 Dominick Potheen 4 105 C. Gray Linguist 3 104.... Dominick Judge Himes 3 104 H. Booker PiCQuart 4 104 L. Wilson gargis 4 103.. J. Reiff Red. Comyn 4 103 J. Reiff Evea G 4 101.L. A. Jackson Epicure 3 100 GHfain 3 98.... J. William Esherin 3 97 Reed Barca 3 96 Bernays 3 95 Lindsey The Don 3 95.... P. Phillips Manru 3 90 No local jockey will have the mount on McChesney. Owner Smathers has let It be — J£nown that he intends to bring on the best riding talent he can secure in the east for this one race. Dominick may have the mount on Dr. Stephens, if Fred Cook should not run Linguist. Clarence Waters has secured second call for this race on the Cook jockey and , believes that with Dominick up Dr. Stephens will be the horse they all will have to beat. Added starters will have their positions assigned by the judges, instead of grabbing off places at the end of the line. This is a new track rule made by the Harlem Jockey Club and will apply to all stakes run at Harlem park this season. Positions for those carded to start will be drawn by lot Friday morning at the usual hour for the closing of entries, and the drawing will be done by Colonel A. W. Hamilton, the presiding judge. Increased train service has been arranged for on all railroads, surface and elevated lines running to the track, and special trains will be run on the Aurora-Wheaton and Elgin electric railway. On the Lake Street Elevated alone there will be nine special race trains, six minutes apart. The Harlem Jockey Club will charge .50 on the opening day, and on all other days. An addition to the grandstand has been built. It will accomodate from 1,500 to 2,000 people. Also a small stand has been erected in the paddock for owners and trainers, it will seat 200. Six car loads .ofhorses are coming to Harlem park early in the weekfronr-Latonia,, and among them such good stables as T. C. McDowells, Rome Respess, John H. Morris and George J. Longs. In McDowells string will be Allan-a-Dale, Monarka, Woodlake, Advantage, Geranium and fifteen more of like class. Respess will bring Six Shooter, Belles Commoner, Dick Welles, Bernays and Collonade. It will be the first time this race has been known as the Harlem National Handicap, with a value of 0,000. Hitherto it has been called the Harlem Stakes, but it always has been a handicap for three-year-olds and upward. From a small beginning it has grown amazingly as its history, her given, shows: No. Date.Sts. First. Wt. 1894 3 Cash Day. .102 897 3 Dr. Shepd.112 900 8 Mint Saucel02 , 901 5 Geo. Arnoldl06 1902 10 Jno. Brightlll , I Second. |Henry Young jMeadowthorpe Pinochle Pink Coat Aladdin : Third. Dist. Sister Mary 1 1-16 Fervor 11-8 Found 11-8 Vesuvian 11-8 McChesney 11-8 Time. Jockeys. Val. 1:455 Leigh ,000 1:541 C. Sloan.... 850 1:52J Buchanan . 1,500 1:531 Winkfield . 5,790 1:57 Winkfield . 5,675
