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ROCKY OBRIEN GOES TO SHEEPSHEAD. Saratoga, N. Y.. August 24. Rocky OBrien, winner of the Hopeful, has departed for New York In charge of Kimball Patterson. With Rocky OBrien were shipped the other horses of James McManus stable: also those of the establishment of John Powers. The famous sprinter. Jack Atkiu. was in Powers consignment. He was as chipper as a two-year-old, and Powers expects to get him to the post during the first week of the Sheepshead Bay meeting. Patterson will busy himself at the Bay this week preparing Rocky OBrien for the Futurity. The colt lias tlone famously since the Hopeful anil Patterson exjxcts him to give a good account of himself next Monday. V. Powers will probably ride Rocky OBrien in the Futurity. James .McManus, the colts owner, has also returned to New York.
