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STAR 3-YEAR-OLDS IN SWEEPSTAKE. August Belmont Willing- to Enter Hourlcss Against Omar Khayyam Next Month. New York. July 25. August Belmont has expressed a willingness to enter his good three-year-old Hourlcss in a sweepstake against Wilfrid Viaus Omar Khayyam, winner of the Kentucky Derby and a victor over Mr. Belmonts colt in the running of the Brooklyn Derby at Aqueduct. Mr. Belmont would slightly amend the conditions suggested by Mr. Viau for such a race. His proposition is that he would gladly enter the son of Negofol Hourglass II., in a sweepstake at a mile and a quarter or 11 mile and a half with the winners share to go to the Red Cross Fund, the race naturally to be framed under the rules of the Jockey Club. The sweepstake proposition would answer every purpose to test the relative merits of the two colts and they should be surely brought together in this test. In his expressed willingness to run his colt against Omar Khayyam, Mr. Belmont did not mention any wager on the result. His idea is a sweepstake and as such other colts could be entered in the running, but naturally, it would be primarily a test of the two named.
