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SUN BRIARS QUALIFICATIONS THE BEST In winning the rich Hopeful Stakes last Thursday Sun Briar unquestionably ran the best race of his career. He had to run like the wind to get on even terms with some of the other contenders that beat him away from the barrier a bit, but he was equal to the emergency and, under the masterly handling of jockey W. Knapp, speedily assumed command of the situation and held it. Knapp, who has ridden the colt throughout his series of brilliant successes in the Saratoga Special, the Grand Union Hotel Stakes and the Hopeful Stakes, has the utmost confidence in the colt and declares him to be one of the best two-year-olds he ever bestrode. Sun Briar certainly has all the qualifications that go to make up a good race horse. He is speedy and game, and he carries weight exceedingly well. The possession of such a horse should amply recompense Willis Sharne Kilmer for the liberal expenditures he has made for thoroughbreds in the past two or three years. Henry McDanlel, who trains the Kilmer horses, certainly has every reason for feeling proud of the colts success and is to be heartily congratulated on having kept him on edge throughout the strenuous campaigning of the past two or three weeks. It takes a skillful trainer to do what Mr. McUaniel has done with Sun Briar. It is no new thing, however, in Mr. McDaniels case, for he. long ago. earned .the. reputation of being one of the most capable of American trainers.
