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MASKETTE MAY START TOMORROW. New- York; September 23. James It. Keenes great lilly. Maskette, worked five-eighths in 1:01s at Sheopslioad Bay Tuesday ami slie will be ready to start Saturday in the Oriental Handicap at one mile iind three-sixteenths if the weights suit. .Marshall rode- the big daughter of Disguise and Bituriea and with his tack lie must have weighed all of 126 pounds. Maskette did not seem to mind this burden a bit. She stepped the first furlong of her breather in 22, three-eighths in 34$. and the half in 47. She was cased up the last furlong. Afilic-tion, the Saratoga Handicap winner, essayed to go with Maskette, but could not. She quit under the heart-breaking pace cut out by the big browii filly before half a mile had leeii traversed. Tire Oriental is a ,000 race for horses of all ages in which handicappcr Vosbiirgh has been called upon to bring Maskette, Field Mouse. Etherial. Mary Davis. Dor-ante, King James, Fits Herbert, Affliction, Kings Daughter, Arondaek, Olambala. Wise Mason. Far West. Beaucoup and Moquette together. Any of these horses save Olambala may start. The winner - of the Twin City Handicap is galloping satisfactorily for Thomas Henley, but Richard T. Wilson, Jr., does not expect to get him to the post before the Belmont Park meeting. The weights for the Oriental Handicap, announced this afternoon, give Maskette a ten-tiound allowance from Fitz Herbert, tlie latter being asked to carry 128 pounds to the lillys- IIS. Olambala is asked to carry the same impost as that allotted to Maskette..
