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1 I i 1 I 1 ! I ■ a ! ! . I . 1 ■ . • , , . 1 , , , 1 | | • a i i | | , 1. , , , , , , , [, AUGUST BELMONTS BIG STRING. Washington. D. .. January 21. — Rock View, the -tar ]UVeniIp of the stable Louis Fetlstel campaigned in Canada and Maryland ia-t year tor Aagttsl Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club of New York. is at the Bennlng track, finishing into one of tin heat-looking three-year-olds otic atfgbt rare to see. Bock View just shades sixteen bands, is decoupled and short-hacked, inn with reach in abaa-ilance. ami weteha 1,0725 pound-. Hi- bulk is uphold by four ch-an. well -iiius.-l.il Idk* and his feet are big ami healthy. Trainer Feustel has an idea that Bock View will demonstrate that he is iln most useful three-year-old, with the possible exception of ragged Fair Play, that has carried the colors of the chairman of the Jockey Club in nfti-eu years. Rook View did not. Immediately after his retire-meal from traialag, do as well as Feaatel might have desired. P.ut he began to pick up at about Christmas time ami i- takiag on flesh every day. The brown son of Rock Saiul will be trained for tin- Preakness Handicap, which Mr. Belmont won the year before last with Watervale and in i he running of which Watervale established ■ n,-w track record of 1 :"il for on- mile and an eighth. This sou of Rock Sand and ioldeu View is the only three-year-old of which Mr. Belmoal expects biff things next -easmi. Snndvalo. daaghter of Kock Sand and I.adv Violet, hence a hait-sister to Iord of the Vale and Watervale and several other winners, is ■una lag into a good-Moklag filly. Saadtale showed speed in fair company a time or two last season, but she ■ was not a tofsaotcher, and hllies at heat are un-eerta in. First aaaaag tin- older horses of the stable is | • Pri-eillian. winner of the Commonwealth Handicap of lisis. which has oat mated all his great three-year old rivals ol that brilliant season and still seems as sood as new. Colin, Celt. Superman. Fair Play. Kin-. James. Durante. Big Chief and Master ! Robert have all been put aa tin- shelf, but this I big raagy chestnut geldiag. haviag raced on two l sides of the Atlantic, is readv to eiiti r noon his eight yi ar old form. I Mi-.-ion. daughter of Rook Sand and Misgivings. I winner of the Pow ie Slakes at Baltimore, will be I bigger mare when sin- .ets to the racea ill IMS than she was last year. and. in view of the liking • she showed fir long-distance raciag at Piaallco in 1 November, she will be pointed for raciag over eon- 1 siderable distances, l.a-t spring her trainer was not I sure Mission was a stayer. There is a nialiire h - in the -table that ha- never started, to wit. Top . Hat. a son of Hastings and Topiary and a half I brother to Trao Bock. I Pelainoitr. a fear-year-old maiden bv Rock Sand 1 out of tin- brilliant Beldame, i- in tin- string. ] cu-teL als,. has Merry Task and Toggery, which t recently came back from Great Britain, where they won purses, lookiag a trifle the worse for their "vim trip. They ale begiaalag to pick up He-h. Mr. P.elnionts two-year-olds are eighteen in t number, and tin- iiio-i comely is Flltaway, by Fair j Play Fllttermouse, dam of li.-id Mouse and Flamma. | litaway i- one of two yoaagsters by Fair Play that | Mr. Reliuont will uncover in the spring. Fair Play, | greatest of tin- three-year-olds of phis. Colin excepted, did not go to tiie sliul until alter his aaaae- | •--Mil season in England in 1808, and little was asked of him hi- find year. He ha- sited an «x ipii-ite lookiag filly in Flltaway. Nicety, a son of Haatlags and Niininy. has siae, scope and a I legs. Fair Play- two-year-oil ] brother is named FHttergoW. IE- is small, not beiag | more than fifteen hands tall just now. but sloully | made and growing. j The biggeal colt in the table i- Iool-eap. a -on . of Rock Sand aud Fiagfaj. Thi- one is a brother i 1 Flint Rock. He stands I5.3 on Ids plates. Mr. Re! 1 iiiint has a weakness for Fool-cap becau-e of bis j relationship to Flint Rock. It la improbable that ! Feustel will do much with Foolscap in the -prim:. I It is the Belmoal practice to give such youngsters ! «oo«l chance. mi Well-. Dick Welles. Security and Sandwich I have a half sister in the stable in Tea BBOOgh. 1 ! blgbly-tried daughlei ..f Ogden and Teas over, which I looks as tboogi she might come to hand early. • Etbelben i- represented by Patbom. a chestnut coll ill of Ferment, and llrieiita by Olynipia. Which claim- Bock Sand for sire. Mr. Belmoal seat Lucy Cross 10 Peter Pan. first I of the graat sobs of Commando three seasons ajro. and Crossluin. a brown illy of substantial weight. wa- the result. Ci-o-s luiii. unless something Bap I pen-, will start at Pimlieo in May. I Andy PergasoB. who tod,- Mission in the Bowie, is t the only .jockey- Mr. Belmoal has umlei- contract but * now. and he is helping Feustel at exercising the ,s! horses this winter. Ferguson has some natural -s ability, and with a -table like that of Mr. Relnieii! * he ought to develop Into a useful loekey. 8 The complete li-i of the Bermoal horse- follows: s Pi i-ejiHan. 1I1. g, s bv Haatlags si. Prisrtlla. Merry Task. b. b. i. bv OcUgon Merry Token. I , Belamour, eh. c. I. bv Rock Sand Beldame. Mission, b. or br. f. 4 bv Bock Sand -Misgivings. J foggery, b f. 1. bv Bock Sand Tea- ii -r. J Beli-ay. eh. .-. :: bv Hastings Beldame. Mabuhab. b. f. ::. bv Bock Sand Merry Token. Btet View. br. c. ::. bv Peek Sand -Golden View. Sand Vale. b. f. •: by Bock Saml l.adv Violet. Top Hat. b. e. :;. by Haatlags Topiary. Two-year-olds. .1 Checkmate. |,. f. By Rock S I Clnnkai.i. 1 he-tiiiii filly, hy SciatillaBI II. flaxen Hair Croasham, br. f. bj Peter Pan Lacy Cross. Deiemliini. b. 1. bv Bock Ssml Drtuslou. Fathom, eh. •. i.v iiheiheit Fermeat. -I Flltaway. br 1. by Fair Plav Fllttermouse. Fllttergold. cb. c. bv Hastiags Fairv Gobi. I F ...l-i ap. eh. e. by Bock Sand Ftagig. Da" Penny, eh. C. bj Kock Sand Half Rovereigll. Mlsplay. eh. r. by Fair Play .Miss HnnoTer. I Nie ty . b. _. by Hastiags Nimlaj Olympia. eh. f hj Kock Sand Orienta. Sand Par. b. c. by Rock Sand Velocity. « Single Ray. b. c. by Singleton Lady Rayon. Stoaebcage. b. ur bv Hastings Linda Stone - 1 1 Enongh. b. 1. bv Ogden Tea- Over Tradesman, b. c. by Siagletoa -Tiptoe. t VI del Bay, b. or in-, t, bi Pock Saml Lady VI 1. 1
