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EXPECT A CROAVD OF 60,000. INTEREST IN TWENTIETH RUNNING OF THE FUTURITY IS INTENSE. Only Eight Are Carded to Start Colin, Coupled with Restigouche, Will Be Odds-on Favorite. New York, August .50. Everything points to a record outpouring at Sheepshead Hay for tomorrow. The present enormous influx of western men will materially augment It. With favorable weather conditions It is predicted Mint 00,000 spectators Will we the Futurity. It is said that Prince Wil-helm of Sweden lias signified his Intention to he present with lils suite on Invitation of the Coney Island Jockey Cluh. The mighty Colin towers so far above his seven probable opponents in the Futurity that he will go to the post the shortest priced horse which has ever started for tin; great race during the twenty yenrs of Its running. To the seemingly Invincible fame of the unbeaten giant son of Commando and Pastorella is also ascribed the meager opposition that will face him, it being the smallest held numerically that has ever started for this coveted prize. It Is the consensus of opinion of all classes of horsemen that, barring accidents, James It. Keenes wonderful two-year-old cannot be beaten and that victory for the "white, blue spots," is more than ever assured by the presence of n formidable second string in Restigouche. The; final trials of the eight horses carded" to start In the Futurity are reported as follows: Colin, three-quarters in 1:135; Restigouche, three-ipiarters a in 1:14?. eased up; 15ar None, three-eighths in 351 repeated in 345 thirty minutes later; Fair Play, three-quarters in 1:131; Mcelick, three-quarters in 1:10 pulled up; Jim Galliiey, five-eighths in 1:00 pulled up; Cbapnltepec, three-quarters in 1:14s; Rcaucoup, three-quarters in 1:1.". For a natural loafer Collns trial in 1:1.12 is roar-velously fast. He was forced to go along a bit to stall off his stable companion, Rcstigouehc, and seemed much concerned and evidently resented his narrow escape from lieing beaten by the latter. II. P. Whitneys Bar None will have eonsiderahle wise following; so will Meelick, John E. Madden, his owner, says the horse that beats Meelick, will win the Futurity. Fair Play, Chapultepec and Jim Gaflney are nest in public consideration.
