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STAKE RACES TO BE RUN THIS WEEK. The June meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay will come to a close Tuesday. Two stakes will lie decided, the last half of the Double Event, for two-year-olds, and the lawrencc Realization, for thrce-.ycar-olds. Winning form in the Double Event is best represented by Starltottle. Dullcare. Waldo. Dalmatian, SwtD, Firelox. Medal-, lion, Newmarket. Big Stick. Rocky OBrien. Colinet and Shannon. The big event of the day. the Law renee Realization., will net the. winning horse 4.-!IH, and, as a natural sequence. Is a prize to be coveted solicitously. But FItz Herberts hollov defeat of Hilarious In the Advance Stakes has deprived the race of much of the interest that.wouId have attached to It had the meeting of the two been deferred until it came up for decision. That race induced trainer Rowe lo say that Hilarious will not start in It. Biit that was in the first Hush of disappointment and. with the consideration that second money hi the Realization Is more than first money In the majority of stake races of the present tlm. Hilarious may be sent In to take another chance. Aside from him the probable starters are Fitz Herbert. Detective. Olainbala and Fayette, with Uncertainty in advance that Fltz Herbert will be an odds-bu favorite, and. .as far as public form goes, an aliiiost assured winner. , The Empire City meeting begins Wednesday, with stake races to be run each day except Friday. The feature of the opening day is the Midsummer Stakes, for three-vearTolcls and over, at a mile and an eighth, under selling conditions. It has aiontgom-erv. Hill Top, Cymbal. Bad News. The Wrestler. Gridiron. Arasee. Norbitt. Eyebrlght. Black Mate. The Squire. Arclle. Huck. Wise Mason. Traveller. Fashion Plate, Lad of Langden and Petticoat among Its entries, and holds out .promise-. of an Interesting contest. The Whirl Stakes, for three-yearlds. at n mile, will be run Thursday. It has no penalties, but has liberal non-winning allowances. Fltz. Her-liert. Fashion Plate, Petticoat- Plate Glass. PraCtt-cal.t Etherial. Wkitervliet. Wise Mason. Royal Captive. Arondack -and Traveller appear best, in this! The big race of the. meeting, the Empire City Handicap, is set for -Satnrilay. It is a. dash of a mil and an eighth and. like the Metropolitan. Brookr lvn and Suburban, is of the guaranteed value -of J5.O0O. King James is top weight, at 129 pounds, ahd mav start. Celt is next to him. with 1J3 pounds, Fitz Herbert was given 118 iounds and has picked up three more for winning the Adyancfc Stakes, making his impost 121 pounds. If he sliould win the Whirl Stakes he would Incur a further penalty or four pounds. Jack Atkin. 115 pounds; Alfred Noble 115. .Hilarious 114. Live Wire 110. Fayette 10". .Kings Daughter IOC. Maltble 100. Jiiggler 104. JMontgomery 104.. Fashion Plate 102; Arcite 100,. Eftemli MV. Hiick 97. Arasee 95. Potti coat 90, and Lady Bedford DO. are other good horses from which the field Will come. There is material here for a great contest. Only one stake Is to be run at Fort Erie. This is the Fort .Erie Stakes, a dash of three-quarters of a mile, under- selling .conditions. Centre Shot. Hyper rion II.. Pajarolta. Madman, Cooncy K.. Sniiley Cor-bett. Prince Ahmed. Terah. Sewell. All Red. Piute; Guv- Fisher. Sal Volatile. Stromehuid, Westbury. Al Miiller, Cvmbal. Dainty1 Dame. Fulford. Hanbridgs; Crystal Maid. Simeoe.i Royal Onyx. Smoker. Turley; Green Seal, St. Elmwool. Gemmell and Bellwether are among the eighty-six ispeedy Iiorses nominaledl
