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SPECIAL JUVENILE RACE AT LAUREL Manager Matt Winn Arranging Contest Between Billy Kelly and Eternal During October Meeting Laurel Mil September 28 Laurel Park which last year was the scene of the great mile and a quarter social race between Hourless and Omar Khayyam will be the scene of at least one other great special nice in October It is a certainty now that James W McClellands Eternal winner of the HoiKjful the richest of Aufuriniii twoyearold races will meet there in a weight for age race at threequarters of a mile the brilliant gelding Billy Kelly the winner at Saratoga of the Flash ITnited States Hotel Sanford Memorial and Grab Bag Stakes All that was needed to make this race for which Colonel Matt J Winn the general manager at Laurel Park offered 10000 the other day was the consent of H G Bedwell the trainer of Billy Kelly to the terms Mr McClelland and his trainer Kimball Patterson had agreed on which are that the two horses are to nice three quarters of a mile under 122 pounds each for from 5000 to 10000 a side and the Maryland State Fair Corporations 10000 added on a day to be set by the contracting parties without reference to weather or track conditions conditionsTiie Tiie reason this nice was not staged at a New York track was that none of the New York racing associations was willing to offer enough money to make bringing Billy Kelly from Havre de Gnice where he has trained since the horses left Sani toga to New York for the race It was a foregone conclusion that Laurel Park would get the special because events of tills sort are the kind Colonel Winn dotes on Colonel Winn appreciates fully the value in publicity of a great struggle Itetwien cham ¬ pions When he offered 10000 for the special be ¬ tween Hourless and Omar Khayyam last fall Colonel Winn knew that Hourless and Omar Khayyam would bring to Laurel Park a crowd greater than any that had ever before seen a horse race in Murylaiid and expectationThe he was not disappointed in this expectation The most gratifying outcome of the special race between Hourless and Omnr Khayyam was that the 10000 Hourless won when lie defeated Omar was presented by Major August Belmont to the American Red Cross The only tangible and nego ¬ tiable evidence that his French colt prevailed over Wilfrid Viaus English champion that remained with Major Belmont was the splendid golden trophy presented to the owner of the winner by Edward Beilo McLean of Washington in honor of whose father the late John R McLean the race was named namedMONEY MONEY TO GO TO RED CROSS CROSSThe The race between Eternal and Billy Kelly will be a Red Cross affair It has grown out of a sug ¬ gestion made by Philip A Clark the owner of that brilliant Celt colt Dunboyne which won the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park a fortnight back that Punboyne Billy Kelly and Eternal and as many other youngsters as might be considered by their owners sufficiently good to meet in a great chain pionship race for 2500 a side and a pi wtrr beer mug which he Mr Clark offered to put up the stakes all to go to the Rid Cross Commander Ross on behalf of Billy Kelly immediately ac ¬ cepted Mr Clarks sportsmanlike offer but he stipulated that in the event of a victory for Billy Kelly in such a race the money should go to tin Red Cross organization of his native Canada It IH understood that the owners of Eternal have accepted this condition as regards the 10000 purse offered by Colonel Winn but if Eternal should win the purse will go to the American Red Cross CrossIt It is interesting that no track condition clause will be insisted on by the owners of Billy Kelly and Eternal in connection with this special The reason of this is that both the Dick Welles gelding and the Sweep colt have demonstrated that they art capable of running in going of any sort Eternal which lias run fiveeighths at Saratoga over a fast track iu 59 won the Hopefnl Stakes in going up to his fetlock joints Billy Kelly under 135 pounds beat Sweep On in the Grab Bag Handicap a race of threequarters of a mile which distanci hi covered iu better than 112 after having shouldered 130 pounds and defeated the fleetfooted Lion dOr in the Keeue Memorial over a track as heavy as that on which Eternal won the Hopeful Billy Kelly and Eternal as fur as they have gone are high class race horses and there is an old saying among horsemen that it is not necessary to carry u track around for a high class horse
