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ELECTIONEER HAS FEW ENGAGEMENTS. For- a Futurity winner Electioneer has few engagements. This suggests that Billy Lakeland did not awake to a realization of his excellence until recently. His now famous colt is in the Flatbush Stakes and Sapphire Stakes at Sheepshead Bay. The Flatbush Is at seven furlongs and will be run next Saturday. His weight in this event is 120 pounds. Peter Pan, Ballot. Superman, Yankee Gun, Bat Mastersou, Ethon, Fountalnblue, Rio Graude, Oran. De Mund, Horace E.. Computer, Philander and Gretna Green are. also in this stake. The Sapphire is a five and a half furlongs dash for which Electioneer will have to carry 128 pounds. It is to he run Monday. September 10; Fountalnblue, Paumonok, Kentucky Beau, Montgomery, Aox Popull, Zambesi, Philander, Arcite. Computer, Kllliecrankle and Ale-theuo appear to be the best of those likely to oppose him. Unless entered in sonic of the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs stakes, which closed August 20, the entries not having been published as yet, he has no engagements at Gravesend, nor does he appear to have any at Belmont Park or Brighton Beach. It Is quite probable that Lakeland is philosophic enough to think his colt has done enough for one year anyhow and will be content with nominating him for the big stakes of next year, which will close iiext January. In making a statement to the New York Herald after the running of the Futurity. Billy Lakeland explained why Electioneer had lolted iu his previous race against Peter Pan and other good ones. He said: .My colt hit himself every time he ran, and even today he IcuiTed himself. I knew that on a straight course there was less chance for him to hit himself than on a turn. He lost the Flash Stakes at Saratoga by running out to escape the pain. I thought he had a good chance, and could not see why Peter Pan should be preferred to Electioneer. The reported fast trial given to the colt is not my style my horses run their best In races, not trials. He was- game and well ridden, and the rest speaks for Itself."
