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MAY AGAIN WIN 00,000 Two-Year-Qld Earnings Augu-mented ! by Richer Futurity. H J. : i Big Sums Won by Domino and Colin May Be Approached fi in Near Future. j "Vith tin; value of the Futurity raised to an quality with the Hopeful Stakes, and each guar- uuteod to be worth S3O.O00. thoroughbred foals of t next, springs crop will have an earning capacity : approaching that of Domino, His Highness and Colin, i in the days before Governor Hughes and his Direc- tors Liability l.aw. The winnings of each of these j old-time two-year-olds were upward of 00,000 : and in Dominos case they were 93,550. 1 The Futurity of Dominos year. 1893, was worth . ?4S,Ss"5, and lesidos the big race at Sheepshead Day, the fleet son of Himyar Mannie Cray won the j Matron Stakes, worth 4,500; the Groat Trial i Stakes, worth .3,100; the Produce Stakes, worth , 19,S75: the Great American Stakes, worth 8,075; the Hyde Park Stakes, worth 6,900; the Great ; Eclipse Stakes, worth 0,750; a purse of SS95 and i halt the purse in the dead heat race with Dobbins, , amounting to ,250 more. It Is indicative of the uncertainties surrounding i the turf in America that of all the valuable fixed events won hv Domino a quarter of a century ago, : the Futurity slid the Groat American Stakes alone survive, and these have been suspended, moved about and cut down in value to escape the fate of the others.- Not a track on which he ran in 1803 is i now in operation and the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs course is the only one in existence. When the Futurity was abandoned for two years following the drastic legislation of 1!10, the earnings of the most successful two-year-olds in the country fell to the lowest point since 1878. "Worth having topied the list with 0,6-15 in 1011 and Helios with- 2,524 in 1012. Sun Briar, the leading two-vear-ojd winner of 1917,- earned 59, SOS and he . did not run in the Futurity at that. Had lie woli th"Straee, his earnings would have leen something like 5,000, the value of the race this year having lcen $ IK, ttOO to the winner. FUTURITY WINNER THE LEADER. Tor ten years after the Coney Island Jockey Club established the Futurity, which was first won by Proctor Knott, in 1SS8. the winner of the i nice at Sheepshead Bay always was the leading two-year-old winner of the year, but in 1S9S the newlv established National Stallion race at Morris Park", the Great Trial Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, the Trnmont Stakes at Gravcend and other rich events won by Jean JJeraud, gave him the lead over Martimas. the Futurity winner, with 1917.sh5,357 to his credit. Mesmerist led without the Futurity the next year and Commando again in 1900, while Burgomaster repeated the feat in 190.". and Sir Martin in 190S. AVith the abandonment of the Fu-tnrltv in 1911 and its greatly reduced value when revived, it ceased to be the controlling factor in the contest for supremacy among the two-year-olds and Campfire is the only winner since Noveltys year 1910 that has led the list of winners for "the year. Conditions governing the Futurity for foals of 1918 make it one of the most attractive of all races to brooders, who can nominate their prospective starters for 0, this small payment carrying the entry until November 1, 1919. when a further payment of S50 will keep it alive until the year or the race. The guaranteed value o the stake to the winner is G,O0O and it mas run well above this amount if the number of entries is in keeping with the number of thoroughbred mares due to foal next vear. The Westchester Racing Association has several other fixed events of substantial value for the juvenile racers. At Saratoga there are five that foot up mora than 00,000 iu value and there are others at. Baltimore, Louisville, licxington and Iutunia, which should make it possible for another Sensation. Tremont, Domino or Colin to pile up earnings of JJIOO.OOO or more. New York Herald.
