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IN THE COACHING CLUB HANDICAP. Somo of the Good Two-year-old Fillies of Last Year Which Have Been Nominated. Naturally almost every good filly of last years crop of two-year-olds is named for the Coaching Club Handicap, the new feature for the metropolitan tracks, which after this year is to become the Coaching Club American Oaks. Schuyler L. Parsons will be represented by his splendid Koh-i-Noor, and the Olen Hiddle Farm by Yankee Witch. George D. Widener has named Columbine and the foreign bred fillies The BeWshe* and Farce; A. K. Macomber is represented by Sun-bonnet. Kittenish. Sisago and Verdant: August Rel-moiit has one nomination in his home-bred filly Serenest; iiffurd A. Cochran is represented by Ma-deria. Fairy Wand, Mary Powell, Burlesipie and Triple Crown. Corrigan and McKinneys Whkliffe Stable has named Conduit. MeLora. Mida, Ndio. and Sw.iu Song: Biehard T. Wilson has named Silver Sandals and the English filly Btdle Ronald; Frederick Johnson is represented by Pleasant Dreams, while David Gideon has one nomination in Admiration. Joseph E. Widener is another with »i single entry, America II., and Frank Nolan has named Alone at Last. George W. Loft has named Julialeon. W. S. Kilmer Hathor. and Crant Hugh Browne. Crepusculc; John Sanford has Madam Curie. Folklore and Glori-ana as his entry, and F. A. Clark is represented by Battle and Medora. This year the race, which is to be run at Belmont Park, will I* at a mile and an eighth under weights to be decided by Mr. Vosburgh. and next year also it will be conducted under handicap conditions, the distance b ing changed to a mile and a quarter, but thereafter it will evolve into an allowance stakes over a route of a mile and three-eighths. Such a test for fillies is good evidence of the genuineness of the leading American owners desire to improve the breed of thoroughbreds at the same time they are enjoying their favorite sport when it is taken into consideration that an exceedingly liberal number of entries have been made lor the 1917, 1918 and 1919 events.
