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WEIGHTS FOR BRIGHTON HANDICAP. Burqomaster Given Top Impost — Middle Weight Division of Impressive Quality. Weights for the 125,000 Brighton Handicap have been announced. In scanning them one will see practically the Brooklyn and Bnbmban weights, which will appear next week. Mr. Vosburgh does not vary nun ■ in his assignment of weights for the three big hand traps The main difference will crag up ill the case of the three -yeal olds. They will lie allotted lighter weights in the Brooklyn and Suburban because of the earlier dates on which these events are run and the less complete development of horses of that age. Bo fat as public form goes, all of the good horses of the day me lu the Brighton and in the delieate task of essaying to do something that never has been done, that is lo give each horse an ea.ua! chance to win. .Mr. Vosburgll has shown his usual acute penepti if the relative capacity of the great list of horses nominated. As was to be expelled. Burgomaster has been made op weight at 1-7 pounds and, taking Ive pounds sex allowance into consideration, his stable unite. Artful, lias practical!? been put on the same mark with 122 pounds. Oiscau ami Accountant are each put on the 125 pound mark and only the four are given 120 pounds or more. of these Burgu master, Artful and Olseaa are unwound bones with doubtful chances id training soundly, so sturdy Ac constant with his 123 pounds is apparently the real top weight, wiih Go Between at 119 pounds nearest following Go Between is the backbone of thia years handicap division in sir Huon ami Or. Gardner, II1* each. Dandelion, Cottontown and Banning Water, 117 each: Dishabille and Tokalon. US; Nealon and Whimsical, 115; The Quail, 114: Flip Flap. 112: Far West, I.iuglc and Hot Teddy, HI. These fourteen horses, all lit and well, would constitute a raretj good and perplexing held alone. Has/ever, July is tar awaj and long before the day for running the Brighton arrives new stars of the track may have developed to dissipale present im preashma. All sorts of racing possibilities arc Involved in the following able of entries and weights: Horse. a. t - Horse. i. * 1 1 Burgomaster 4 127 Tiptoe 4 160 Accountant 4 125 Electioneer 3 105 Oiscau 5 125 Don Diego 4 li»l ah ful 5 122 Standover 4 104 ib. Between «J 119 Israfel 4 103 Sir Huon 4 lis, W. II. Daniel . .. :: 103 Dr. Gardner 4 lis Comedienne .... 4 102 Dandelion .r 117 De Mund :t 102 Tanya 5 117 Ioiintainblue .... ■ 102 Cottontown 4 117 Court Dress •" lul Running Water.. 4 117 Beaconlight 4 liHi Dishabille 3 110 Prince of Coins.. 4 100 Tokalon " US -lack Atkin ■ loo Nealon 4 115 Ballot ■ IM Whimsical 4 115 Tony Faust :; loo The Quail 4 114 Orbicular 4 Ion Flip Flap 4 112 Horace B •". loo Cairngorm 5 IU Miss Crawford .. 6 l"* Far West •"• 111 Clovenrest 4 ! ". Gallavant 4 in Arcite :: 99 Hot Toddy i m Kereheval 4 97 Tangle 4 111 McCarter " .7 Blandy •" I"1 Philander ."! .»7 Martin Doyle 5 11" Meteor 4 *.i7 Blakestown 5 nut Kentucky Beau.. :; ••" Borgbesi ti 109 Montgomery .... :: u7 Hyperion II 4 Ion Gretna Green ...■ !»7 Salvidere -i 108 .1. C. Core :: !"i ICurokl 4 196 Oonville ■• ■»• Kirst Premium... 4 108 Saracenesca ■• 95 • ord .". 108 Veil :: 95 legist ilia "■ Bis Beiiarris 3 hi ironsides 4 107 «»ht Honesty :. W Good Luck 4 lo7 Okenite ■. 93 Wexford 5 lOB Holdfast :: 98 Ihil Finch 0 108 Lady Dudley ... .". .«» Flis 6. .105 Toddies 3 99 Peter Pan •. ! -. Pans* • !*o Coy Maid 5 105 Bright Boy :: s7 One realty bjterestlng feature of the handicap is the fact that the great majority of the best two rear-olds of 1908 are entered and Mr. Vosburgh here gives his estimate of their comparative worth. Bsiskag the weights assigned the twenty nine three rear-olds in the Brighton to the standard of stake Weight for three year olds exclusively, he would handicap them as follows. Horse. Wl. Horse. Wt. Salvidere 126 Montgomery 115 Peter Pan 12:! Gretha Breen 115 Kleclionoor 12:. .1. C. Cote HI W. II. Daniel 121 Conville ill He Mund 120 Saracenesca 113 Foimtainhlue 120 Veil 11". Com I Dress 11!l lenarris 112 .Ink Atkin Us old Honesty 112 Fallot lis Okenite m Tony Faust lis Holdfast no Horace F. 11 Lady Dudley los Arcite 117 Toddles »98 McCarter US Faust 108 Philander 115 Bright Boy lo:. Kentuck Beau 115
