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HANCOCK HAS CONFIDENCE IN FILLIES. Believes They Will Have a Good Chance to Defeat Colts in Fall Endurance Races. Arthur !,. Hancock has named both colts and filli-s for his thirty three nominations to tin- La teals Championship Stakes of 1010, and in support Of his contention, that fillies in the fall should have a good chance to defeat colts in endurance races, he cites the history of the St. Leger, Which has been won on various occasions by fillies. Basse fillies that were winners of this English classic are Pretty Polly. Sceptre. Throstle. La Pleche, Memoir. Heabreese, Dutch Ore*, Apology, Jeaaette, Hannah. Marie Stuart and many others. Of these Seabreeze beat Ayr -hire, which was winner of both tlie two Thousand and the Derby. Ior the coming Campaign the Hancock silks will not lie show n in New York until the Saratoga season. Embroidery and Sprint are the only ones be will bring to the roes, but he expect! both to be bett r this year than they have yet shown. They will be rand over the Kentucky circuit and taken to Saratoga in August. The Champion hip Stakes is not the only recent engagement that has been made for the Hancock yearlings. He nominated ten for the 1010 running . I the Coaching Club of Amerh-jn Oaks, to ha run at Behasat Park.
