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- Fr"- -* -» - • -. - -* CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUBS MEETING. Piospcct of High-Class Ra mg at the Always Popular Shccpshcad Bay Track. The Brave-send meeting now in progress will come to an end June 22! and lie succeeded by the June meeting of tbe Coney island Jockey Club at Sheens head Bay. This will begin Thursday. June 24. with tin- first Imlf of tin- Double Brent and the Suburban Handicap as the chief attractions of the day. The SheepsheMi! II. iv lueclings have alwavs been the most popular of all those given annually in the vielnily of New York and the lavish outlay of the Coney Island ioekei Club in the mailer of slakes and purses has for Fear* served to make it securely the foremost racing organization of tbe United Mates. It is hoped that tbe present meeting will attract more of the old lime patrons of racing than the Belmont Park ami Gravesend meetings have and go far toward putting tile sport into something like its old-time state of popularity and secure establishment. While tin- stake program of the coming meeting is sadlv cut down in value from the high mark of recent years, il has three of undiminished value in the 0.01x1 Tidal Stakes, the famous Lawrence Realisation Stakes with its 0,000 added and tbe Mermaid Stakes for throe-year -old fillies with ,000 added. These are supplemented by fourteen stakes that closed this year on the same scale of values as those offered at P.elinont Park and Gravesend under the guaraulce of the Association of Owners and Breeders. So far as appearance go the Tidal and Mermaid seem destined to go to James R. Keens through the superiority of Hilarious and Maskette, but the Lawrence Realization present* a different aspect. The western crack. Olamhala. is in this and is a good coll. Kits! Herbert Is also an eligible ami tetween the two there is formidable opposition for the Keene crack. The slakes of this years closing filled somewhat better than those of the Westchester Racing Association and Brooklyn Jockey Club and promise Inter-cling racing as a role. So. far as the Suburban Is concerned, Sam Uildreth is said to have declared positively that King James will not be a starter, but ill Restigouehe 121. Montgomery 115. Fits He. bert 166 and Joe Madden 102 to pick from, he is sure to be well represented in the race. Celt is in daily exercise, but no definite statement as to whether be will siart ot not has been made, but he is much more likelv to represent the Keene stable than Hilarious. T. C. McDowells line man-. King--Daughter, seems in such grand form this year that she must be ticketed decidedly dangerous, with bin 10." pounds to carry. Another that may have .1 great chance is the lightlv weighted four-vear-old. Alfred Noble, at 00 pounds. High Private. BM pounds. Fashion Plate 02. Field Mouse BO. Practical so and Kffendi 87 are all good three-year-old-thrown in at feather weights, and none of them la without a chance.
