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NEARBY ENGAGEMENTS OF COLIN AND CELT CELTIt It has 1 een stated in some publications that Celt in not well engaged in the rich stakes of the year but the contrary is the case As a matter of fact lie has more engagements than Colin at tho present Gravesend meeting and Its immediate successor the Sheepshead Bay meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club Colin is In a Xew of the richer stakes for which Celt was not nominated but In the majority Ixith are entered At Sheepshead Bay a threeyear old good enough and fortunate enough to win the Tidal Stakes Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes and Lawrence Realization has the chawe to net his owner something over 60000 including an extra 10000 to the triple winner Colin has this chance Imfore him and Celt has not Colin is in the Tidal Stakes as well as the other two but Celt is only in the Realization and Coney Island Jockey Club In passing it may be noted that If Colin does win the three rich stakes he will at once become the greatest money winner of American turf history by far excelling the record of his grandslre Domino DominoColin Colin has but two more stake engagements at Gravesend the Carlton Stakes at a mile June and the Standard Stakes at a mile and a quarter June Celt is1 in the Standard Stakes and in addition is nominated to the Parkway Handicap June 5 Broadway Stakes June 10 and Brookdale Stakes Juno 13 making four engagements to Collns two Oddly enough neither is in the Brooklyn Derby DerbyAt At the Sheepshead Bay June meeting Colin Is nominated to the Suburban Handicap Commonwealth Handicap Tidal Stakes Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes Advance Stakes and Lawrence Realization Celt is in the Suburban Commonwealth Advance Coney Island Jockey Club Equality Stakes Spindrift Stakes Coney Island Handicap Sheepshead Bay Handicap and Long Island Handicap showing nine stake engagements at the meeting to six for Colin ColinIn In the big meetings to follow at Brighton Beach Empire City and Saratoga as well as the autumn meetings at the metropolitan tracks both of these Keene stars are heavily engaged and if he remains sound and in good form it is quite within the range of possibility that Colin may end his campaign of this year with tho record of being the leading win ¬ ner of the world At present Isinglass enjoys that distinction with a total of 280075 Colins earn ¬ ings to date foot up 105862 so that he has still quite a sum to accumulate 1 efore passing Isinglass but lie is in more than a sufficient number of valu ¬ able stakes to accomplish the feat if fortune attend his career further
