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SWEEP MAY START IN GREAT TRIAL. New York, June 30. It is believed at Siieepshead Bav that James Itowe is fitting Sweep, winner of the National Stallion Race, for the Great Trial. The rent Trial is a race of three-quarters of a milo over the Futurity course, in which Sweep may. if he Maris, meet Waldo, his most formidable rival for the two-year-old championship. The Great Trial is the most valuable of the Shcepshcad Bay races for two-vear-olds. Sweep has not raced since the Belmont Park meeting, and if he does not start in the Great Trial, it may lie assumed that Rowe is saving him for Saratoga. He is in the Hopeful Stakes and Saratoga Special, and after the Saratoga meeting he may start in the. Futurity, the best two-year-old event of the whole year. Mr. Keene won the Futurity in 1007 with Colin and that of BIOS with Maskette. There is no reason for assuming that Sweep may not be as good a two-vcar-old as Colin and Maskette were. He has done everything asked of him in faultless fashion. Sweep is above all else built for distance running. He is big-chested big-quartered and short-backed, with an abundance of length underneath, and he runs close to the ground with head extended. Sweep more nearly resembles Ben Brush than any horse that stallion has sent to the races. Sweep Is the only two-year-old of any class Mr. Keene has uncovered so far. and he lias but two others in the Great Trial. One of these is Grass-niere. a son of Meddler and Rotha II., and the other is Flashing, a daughter of Ben Brush and Dazzling. Flashing Is home-bred, but Mr. Keene lMuight Grassiuere last summer at the Mackay yearling sale.
