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WALDEN STAKES SATURDAY Great Field Assured for Pirnlieos Rich TwoYearOid Fixture Billy Sicily Cirrus War Pennant PennantPen Pen Sose and Milkmaid Among Amongthe the Likely Starters Baltimore Md November 4 The Maryland Hockey Club will stage one of the greatest two yearold races of the entire year next Saturday when picturesque Iimlico track is cleared for the eleventh renewal of tlie Walden Stakes Tlie Wai den a 3000 guaranteed race at a mile for two yearolds of both sexes has in the last few years bycciae the greatest twoyearold pointer to ap ¬ proaching threeyearold form Horsemen have come to regard it in the light in which the English regard tlie Dewhurst Plate The youngster that takes up his weight and wins it as War Cloud did last year is pretty sure to be considered fav ¬ orably in the Kentucky Derby or Preakness of the following spring springWar War Cloud was favorite for the last Kentucky Derby and after being beaten in that great race by Exterminator Escoba and Viva America lie came cast to Pimlico and was made favorite for the division of tlie Preakness in which he started startedTwo Two of the colts that finished at the heels of War Cloud in last years Walden Jack Hare Jr ind7 ni r M fter have made good reputations as threeyearolds The only reason last years race iil not attract Johren tlie big Spearmint colt of the stable of Harry Payne Whitney which has won the llelmont Lawrence Realization Latonia Derby Suburban Handicap and Saratoga Cup this year was that Johren went lame at IJrookdale Farm training for it and was put by to insure his stand Jug for this years racing racingOf Of the earlier winners of the Walden Zeus Colo ¬ nel Vennie and Ten Point afterward made brilliant long distance runners But they won the Walden when it was a minor affair a stake of only 2000 value Since it lias become a 5000 race horsemen have begun to keep their best twoyearolds in training beyond the ordinary time for their retire incut to winter quarters for it itThe The only highclass twoyearolds of the current yar the Walden is certain not to attract are Dun boyne Terentia and Elfin Queen all three of which have been put by for the year on account if tlie development of trouble with their under ¬ pinning James W McClelland has said that lie intends to retire Eternal winner of the John R McLean Memorial Cup at Laurel Park but horsemen have been known to say such things and change tlicir minds WILL BE RACE OF STALWARTS STALWARTSBut But without Dunboyne Elfin Queen Terentia and Paternal tlie coming Walden will be a race of stalwarts Than Billy Kelly Cirrus War Pennant Be Frank and War Marvel a greater quintet of twoyearolds could not be found and all five of them will answer the Walden roll call next Sat urdayl urdaylThe The easterners who saw Billy Kelly and Eternal race for the John 11 McLean Memorial Cup a week back declare that there were two horses in New York that could beat either of the contestants and the youngsters they had in mind were War Pennant and Cirrus These easterners had seen War Pennant win five straight races at Belmont Park Aqueduct Jamaica and Yonken and Cirrus after winning four straight run War Pennant to a nose in the Ardsley Handicap at Yonkers It is a waste of time to write of Billy Kelly Everybody knows what a great youngster Commander J K L Ross Dick Welles gelding is Be Frank a strapping son of Sir John Johnson and Frankness proved his worth in the Potomac Handicap at Laurel Park on Tues ¬ day last when he won in a canter over a mile course after being practically left at the barrier barrierOther Other crack youngsters eligible and considered probable starters in the Walden include Question ¬ naire Lord Brighton Purchase Over There Ophelia Balustrade Routledge Milkmaid Knot Alphee Tuscaloosa Pen Rose Hannibal and Thunderstorm
