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BEST THREE-YEAR-OLD AT NEW ORLEANS. The winner of the Inaugural Handicap on the opening day of the Crescent City Jockey Clubs meeting is a good colt and likely to rank in the first flight of horses raced at New Orleans during JiieiyucncvpttM-. cojnlHg-intcEFl!5n -irfh. very fast Futurity of last year and winner of -two" Derbys tills year are credentials to be viewed with respect; Belinere was bred by John E. Madden and Is a bay colt, by the Futurity winner, Ogden Nahnia. Last year as a two-year-old, he started in eleven races without winning and ended the year a maiden, but deemed a promising youngster despite his-111 fortune. He was third in the Futurity, beaten a length and a head by Ormondale and Timber, ran second to Juggler for the Autumn Stakes at Sheeps-head Bay and third to Benevolent aud Charley for a purse at Gravesend. His first start this year was in the Carter Handicap, won by Roseben at Aqueduct, April 10, in which lie was a 20 to 1 chance and cut no figure. His next start was in the Larchmont Stakes at Belmout Park. With 113 pounds up he finished first by three-quarters of a length in front of Rose of Gold, 110. Bed Eye was third aud nine ran unplaced, the seven furlongs of the race being run iu 1:27. At the same track he ran unplaced in a purse won by Old Faithful and In the Withers Stakes, won by Accountant in 1:38. At the Gravesend spring meeting he ran fourth to Burgomaster, The Quail and Pegasus in the Carlton Stakes. At the second Belmont Park meeting Larable beat him a half length for a purse at seven furlongs,, run in 1:258, Woolwich was third. Belmerc "was almost knocked to his knees by Entree and would have won but for this. Then he was taken to Buffalo to run in the Buffalo Derby at Kenilworth Park. This he won beating Minnie Adams easily by four lengths, running the mile and a quarter in 2:07$ with 122 pounds up; Hyperion IL, was third and nenry Watterson and Lotus Eater ran unplaced. He closed at 9 to 1 hi the. betting and Minnie Adams at 11 to 20. Taken back to Gravesend he ran unplaced in -two sprints over the short three-quarter course, both of which were Avon by Halifax, then at his lest. Then he won the Brooklyn Derby at a mile and a half over a muddy track, beating The Quail by twenty lengths. King Henry, beaten off, was the only other starter. The Quail was favorite at 7 to 10 and Belmere cjosqd at 9 to 5. The race was run In 2:37 and Avas very fast for the going. The Quail was a good colt then, but had no chance with Belmere on such a track. This race was run June 1C and Belmere did not start again until September 2S at Gravesend, running fourth in a dash of a mile and a sixteenth Avon by Ed Ball. Then he Avon his next three races. At Brighton Beach, October 0, over a heaA-y track, lie defeated Anneta Lady, Mandarin, Deutsclfland and live more at a mile and a sixteenth in 1:4S1. At Belmont Park, October 10, he Avas easily first from Belle of Jessamine, Onatas and six others at tiie same distance in 1:40, leading all the Avay and running the first mile in l:S9g. Then, with 110 pounds up. he Avon the Pierrepont Handicap at Jamaica, defeating Dishabille, 120; Coy Maid, 112; Angler. 100; Good Luck, 112; Cederstrome, " 90; Ostrich, 110, and Martin Doyle, 114. The track AA-as sloA distance one and one-eighth miles, and the time l:34f. In the Southampton Handicap, Hot Toddy beat him a head. This Avas also at Jamaica and W; Miller rode the Avinner, at 117 pounds, Bel mere having 113 and James Hennessy up. Then he ran unplaced in the Aqueduct Handicap aud the Election Day Handicap at the Aqueduct fall meeting. His next and last start Avas in the Inaugural, His record is to date: Year. sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Amt. 1003 11 O l . 2 S .S-2,641 llMKi IS 7 2 , O 21.CS0 Totals ,.20 7 u 2 17 21,321
