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BELMONT PARK PROSPECTS LAST MEETING OF THE YEAS. OVER A NEW YORK COURSE OPENS THIS AFTERNOON. i Good Card Presented for the Bay with the Bel- 1 mont Park Autumn Handicap and Broad- 1 hollow Steeplechase as the Features. Xow York, August 28. All indications point, to :i BJ-e.it season .f racing during the Belmont. Park meeting, which is scheduled to open tomorrow. The montli of August, which look race goers to Saratoga, gave :i respite to the sport mound Manhattan, and the popularity of autumn racing will : lie emphasized during tint Belmont Park meeting. The rumors that dates were to lie allowed to 1 Jamaica and Aqueduct next fall proved false and the brief meeting at Helmont Park will wind up the season for the thoroughbreds on the metropolitan circuit, much to the regret of everyone connected with racing. The Futurity, of course, will he the stellar feature of the meeting, it being the race of the year for the two-year-olds, but the renewal of the Lawrence Realization, at one mile and a half for three-year-olds, proves that, racing around Xew York is again on a firm basis. The crack three-year-olds of the year are in the Lawrence Realization and the winner will come near being crowned the champion. The opening day is replete with offerings that should result in high-class racing, the chief feature of which is the ltclmout Park Autumn Handicap at one mile and an eighth for three-year-olds and over witli 81,500 added. This race will bring out some of the best horses in training of the first handicap division. In addition the Broudhollow Steeplechase Handicap will afford lovers of steeple-chasing the opportunity of enjoying their favorite sport. It. F. Carman will divide his stable of racers, sending some to Bine Bonnets, while the yearlings will go to the Itenuiug course at Washington. .Mr. Carman was a liberal buyer of yearlings this year and should have some good racers in 1917. Jockey !. W. Carroll will rejoin his contract employer. Clarence Buxton, at Belmont Park, after having ridden in Canada with success. Jtuxtou, who purchased Sasin and Dervish at Saratoga, has been having considerable suci-css with the small string he has been training for J. W. Slick. George Swain disposed of the filly Onota before leaving Canada and is on the lookout for some serviceable racers. George M. Odom will train the four horses that the Brighton Stable retained out of the dispersal sale at Saratoga and will campaign them over the Maryland circuit. J. W. May is schooling Malabar through the field and has hopes of making a jumper of him. lielmont Park work-outs, with the track fast this morning, were: Air Man Three-quarters in 1:17. Ahara Mile in 1:40. Andrew Three-quarters in 1:20. Alma 1$. Half mile in 54. Beaverkill Half mile in 19. Benjamin Three-quarters in 1:1S. Borrow Mile in 1:51. Cut Glass Half mile in 54. Crimper Mile in 1:45. Daddys Choice Mile in 1:47. Dodge Three-quarters in 1:20. Fairy Wand Half mile in 52. Feminist Three-quarters in 1:24. Fellowship Half mile in 51. Farce Three-eighths in 38. Frizzle Three-quarters in 1:19. Golden Itod Three-eighths in 37. Gainer Five-eighths in 1:02. Genesis Half mile in 52. Half Rock Half mile in 55. Hidden Star Five-eighths in 1:07. Hubbub Half mile in 51. Hanobala Three-quarters in 1:20. Hands Off Half mile in 50 Hendrie Mile and an eighth in 2:04. Hanworth Half mile in 52. Ida Claire Mile in 1:52. Jitney Half mile in 52. Juliet Three-quarters in 1:21. Kings Oak Half mile in 53. Kittenish Half mile in 49. Longfellow Mile in 1:48. Ladv Hillington Three-quarters in 1:20.. Lady Teresa Half mile in 57. Lottery Half mile in 52. Mary Powell Half mile in 49. M i ..Mc IUV ll! il in Irccisi - ilalf mil- in ! Van Maid Five-eighths in 1:05. Vriuce of Conic Three-quarters in 1:24. Vleione Three-quarters in 1:24. Vast Master Half mile in 54. Volroma Five-eighths iu 1:10. Rhine Maiden Three-quarters hi 1:21. Republican- Half mile in 50. Kegina Five-eighths in 1:04. Star Hawk Mile and an eighth in 2:03and. . Sortie Three -quarters in 1:20. Slipshod -Mile in 1:51. Tetan Half mile in 52. Tumbler Three-eighths in 35. Tragedy Three-quarters in 1:21. Three Cheers Three-quarters in 1:23. Town Hall Five-eighths in 1:05. Treutino Half mile in 52. Vivid Three-eighths in 35. "Water Belle Mile iu 1:51. Wenonah Mile in 1:51. "Whimsy Three-quarters iu 1:20.
