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! ! i | i ; 1 ; I i ! i I SUBURBAN HANDICAP NEXT SATURDAY Big Crowd Expected to Witness Popular Stake Feature to Be Run at Belmont Park. Nov.- York. June 4. — The Suburban Handicap is the next big race to attract the attention of eastern turf patrons. This event will be run next Saturday over the mile and a quarter course at Belmont iark and has always been one of the most popular handicaps run in the east. The Suburban was inaugurated thirty four years ago and has been won by some of the liest horses in American turf his-lory. It was origiaa.ly run at Siieepshead Pay and was taken over by the Westchester Racing Association through tl»- courtesy of the Cou:-y Island •iockcy Club jn ISIS. The first winner of the Suburban was General Monroe in 1884. The great Salvator won it in ISSS, Henrv of Navarre in lS9ti. Kinley Mack in 1900. Africander in 1S9S, Hermis, 1904; Beldame, 1905: Ballot. 190S; Fitz Herbert, 1909; Olambala. sire of Campfirc. 1910. and Whisk Broom II. in 1911. when li. 1. Whitneys great horse established a new American record of 1!:00 for the mile and a quart.-r distance. When the entries closed for this years running of the Suburban it promised to furnish one of the beat contests of the year, being filled with high-class racing material, but fate turned its guns on the event and shattered it somewhat. Among the entries were Hourless, Old Rosebud, Stromboli. Sunbonnet and Cainpfire. sufficient alone to make a contest of the utmost importance. All of these liorses have met with misfortune and unless Omar Khayyam and Westy Hogau come into their own. they will be absentees also. The three-year-old division will add something to the interest in the race, but even these will not be sufficient in numbers to make amends for the absent ones. It is not likely that there will be more than a dozen starters, if that many. At present the most likely starters are Spur, Koamer. Ilollistcr, Sun Briar. Cudgel. Omar Khayyam. Westy Hogau. Hendrie. Flags. Johren, Lanius, Trompe La Mort, Ultima Thate, Kalitan and Corn Tenia. Spur and Koamer are beins prepared for the Suburban and will go to the iiost. barring accident. Cudgel is a sure starter, providing his long trip to Kentucky and back agaiu has not affected him. Omar Khayyam, so far. is not the horse he was last year, and neither is Westy Hogan. Hendrie is going along well as is also Corn Tassel. Those aciount for the older division. Flags is only looked ■pea as a sprinter, but is showing splendid form and improvement in every race. Lanius is training satisfactorily ami Trompe La Mort showed his e-alibrc in the Metropolitan. It 4s to be hom-d at least ten will go to the post in order to satisfy the racing appetite of the 20,000 or more who are expected at Belmont Iark to see the Suburban run, no matter what the weather may be.
