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INTENSE INTEREST IN COMING CONTEST. Eastern Horsemen Divided as to Respective Merits of Hilarious and Fitz Herbert. New York. Juno "0. Hor-mcn are spending much time discussing the respective merits of the great thrce-vear.-olds James It. Krones Hilarious and S. U. Ilildreths Fitz Herbert.. Some turfmen insist that Mr. Keenes colt will prove the master because of superior class, while others declare that Fitz Herbert will prove a greater stayer than the son of Voter when they meet in tho 0,000 Realization Stakes, one mile and five furlongs, at Sheeps-head Bay July 13. For that event Hilarious will carry his stake weight. 120 pounds, while Fitz Herbert, because he has pot won a race worth $."i,H0 this season, will receive a four-pound allowance, making his impost 122. According to present indications both will go to the post for tho Realization, which indicates a sensational race of widespread interest. Hilarious and Fitz Herbert are botb eligible for the Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes, one mile and a half, on July 3: the Commonweal th Handicap, one mile and a quarter, on July and the Advanee Stakes, weight for age, one mile and live-sixteenths, on July 8, but it is said that lhey will both be saved for the Realization. When Hilarious won the Tidal Stakes, one mile and a quarter, in 2:00 last Saturday, he convinced many turf exports that he was a remarkable three-year-old. Tho belief prevails that Hilarious, if he had been extended, could have equaled Colins record for the Tidal. Hilarious was under a pull all the way and had nothing to fear after the start. Having won the Withers and the Carlton Stakes with similar case. Hilarious lias created the Impression in some quarters that lie is :ui extraordinary colt and will lie the champion of his ago this year. It is contended that ho has so nmch carlv speed that when he meets Fitz Herbert in tlie Realization tho latter will be run oT his feet, for tho Hildrcth colt will have to pick up seventeen pounds more than ho carried when ho won the Suburban in 2:03;. Horsemen who think that Fitz Herbert can beat Hilarious say that the Keene colt cannot stay with the son of Ethelbert at the Realization route. They point to the fact that In spite of the terrific pace-niaklug by Restigouche and Alfred Noble, which ran the tirst mile in 1:37 and the mile and an eighth in 1:50 in the Suburban. Fitz Herbert was abb? to remain close to them and then draw away in the last quarter of a mile. They also argue that litz Herbert won the Suburban without being extended and that if Dugau had ridden the colt out, n new American record would have been hung up. In view of these counter opinions, it is easy to draw I In conclusion Hint when Hilarious and Fitz Herbert meet there will be a race wortli going miles to see. .Incidentally it may be well to remember that II II- Iretli says Fitz Herbert is the best thoroughbred be has ever owned, not excepting the wonderful King James.
