Attractive Belmont Park Program: Harbor Hill Cup and Champagne Stakes Main Features-Helmets Fast Trial, Daily Racing Form, 1908-10-14

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ATTRACTIVE BELMONT PARK PROGRAM. Harbor Hill Cup and Champagne Stakes Main Features Helmets Fast Trial. Vcw York. October 13. Belmont Park provides i snlendid midweek card for tomorrow. Two stakes to down for decision, the Harbor Hill Cup. for vbree-.veur-old steeplechasers exclusively, and the Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, at seven fuv-.o.e3. The remaining four races are particularly ell-nlled overnight purses, in which many of the best handicap horses and selling platers in training .ire engaged. For the Harbor Hill Stakes Stokes and Regal Royal, heralded the best .lumping prospects iiiti debutantes ever seen in this country, will tuonopolize interest, aud for the Champagne James C. Keenes great colt. Helmet, will he the dominating factor, not only by virtue of his public form. at bis final trial at Sheepshead Bay for the race :I -ne mile in l:40jE. pulled up. , The Empire City track has been graded and re viled and. while not as fast as formerly, will be ifc ami grateful to horses with dickey legs and : der feet. The staff of officials will be the same i at the other New York meetings. W. H. Fizer and W. J. Young have signified their J .ntention to race at Yonkers and their strings will 1 ? shipped from Louisville in time for the opening. i Colonel W. E. Applegate will ship a numerous and Powerful stable of horses to California this month. i It will be particularly strong in coining two-year-old -aterial twelve highly tried yearlings. It was reported that W. P. Riggs. of the Plmlico , track at Baltimore, would be in New York today. nd a definite announcement is expected as to ; whether the Baltimore meeting will be held on the ; lates originally allotted or be postponed so as to i follow the meeting at Jamaica. There is a possibility of an arrangement on these lines being effected. . Gowan. the sensation of the nresent Belmont Park t raeeting. will be campaigned on the California tracks J Alfred1 Noble ha3 been altered and retired for the " , eason .


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