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HYLAS WILL START AT AQUEDUCT. New York, October 25. It was generally expected that after his victory in the Champion Steeplechase at Belmont Park last Saturday, Mr. Hitchcock would decide to put HylaB away for the year, but this is not the program. He has been named for the Bushwick and Queensboro Steeplechases at Aqueduct and Mr. Hitchcock says he will start in at least one of the races, and possibly both of them. The Bushwick will be decided November 6, and the Queensboro will be run November 10. It is due chiefly to an appreciation, of the efforts of P. J. Dwyer to advance the sport of steeplechaslng, that he has decided to start Hylas- at Aqneduct. "All persons interested in steeplechaslng must feel," says Mr. Hitchcock, "that Mr. Dwyer is entitled to their highest consideration. He has done a lot for the sport these ten years at Graves-end and at Aqueduct. He built a course at Graves-end against the wishes of his brother-stockholders of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, and he has Instituted some sood stakes and purses at Aqueduct. I shall race at Aqueduct not only- nylas, but every other horse In my possession that is fit." In his two years as a steeplechaser, Hylas has won for Mr. Hitchcock eleven races and 0,750 out of twenty-four starts. He is now only five years old. As a two-year-old he started nine times, but the best he conld do was one third, ne was not raced at all as a three-year-old.
