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Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park High Class field Carded to Start in One of the Most Famous Races of American Turf History i iThis This days racing at Belmont Park will be marked by the running of the Suburban Handi ¬ cap Time was when the Suburban weights were announced early in the year and their ap ¬ pearance was eagerly awaited by followers of racing the country over The fact that future books soon afterward blossomed being not entirely disconnected with the widespread interest in the imposts allotted It is not that way now The Suburban is deprived of much of its former value and high repute as thci foremost of American handicaps but it is not deprived of its wealth of historical associations and to New Yorkers at least its running is still a great racing occasion and sure to draw a great crowd of spectators to the big Long Island track trackThe The Suburban of today brings its winner more money than it did on the occasion of its lirst running away back in 1884 when General Monroe War Eagle and Jack of Hearts fin ¬ ished heads apart in a desperate struggle But there were years in its more recent history when it was a handicap of greater value than any now run Its high tide mark was in 1908 when Ballot took 19750 when he defeated King James and Fair Play but it brought the win ¬ ners 17750 when Montana and Lowlander won in 1892 and 1893 respectively and over S1G000 rewarded the winners in 1903 1904 1905 1900 and 1907 However the crack horses of those years were no better than the crack horses of today and those who will witness the nice today will lack none of the thrills evoked by its decision in other years Weather Probabilities Threatening Track Slow SlowJockeys Horse HorsePrinceps Breeding Jockeys Trainers Owners OwnersE Princeps Fair Play St Priscilla E TaplinS C HildrcthS C Hildreth Boniface Transvaal Cerina T Nolan H G BedwellJ K L Ross Papp Peter Quince Phebe G W Kelsay M Hirsch G W Loft Star Class Star Shoot Lady Bedford J Wessler W J Speirs F Slocum Corn Tassel Santoi Cornfield L Lyke T J Healey R T Wilson Exterminator McGee Fair Empress J Butwell II McDaniel W S Kilmer Sweep On Sweep Yodler L McAtee W H Karrick W R Coe Viiidex St Victrix Bellefontaine E Ambrose Jaii Rcwe H P Whitney War Cloud Polymelus Dreamy W Knapp W B Jennings A K Mcomber Lanius Llangibby Southern Belle J Loftus A J Joyner G D Widener Over There Spearmint Summer Girl II Myers W H KarrickW R Coe The prospect is that at least ten swift ones will go to the post in the big race today Maybe more The somewhat annoying freedom with which owners are permitted to scratch from and add to stake races on the New York tracks renders precision in forecasting out of the question But at any rate a fine race is in view with fine and fast horses clashing clashingThe The theoretical aim of handicapping is such an adjustment of weights as to give each horse an equal chance If this aim was reached the inevitable outcome would be a dead heat between ril the starters That this aim is never attained is demonstrated by the patent fact that dead lcats seldom ever occur in handicaps Not one has ever marked the long history of the Subur ¬ ban although it has been attended by finishes mighty close to the dead heat line There is none better at weight allotting than the official handicapper Mr Vosburgh His adjustments always bring racing puzzles and there is no exception in the case of this years race raceOn On the basis of the announced starters the only question presented by the race is whether Exterminator can concede the weight the others ask from him or not He is a fine race horse fast a sturdy yeight carrier arid as game as they make them But he is set a tremendous task here and it may be doubtful if he is equal to its exactions There is a world of speed opposed to him under lighter imposts and it does seem that the prize is more likely to fall to fJich as Princeps Papp Star Class Boniface or Corn Tassel They can all run with the speed o the winds and appear to have the best of the sterling top weight weightThe The following table shows the races and money won by the horses carded to start in the Suburban Handicap Scale Wt Performances to Date Horse Col and Sex A Wt Jockey JockeyPrinceps On Off Sts 1st 2il 3d Uhp Winnings Princeps ch c 4 102 E Taplin 24 10 3 0 4 3 1562 Boniface b c 4 107 T Nolan 19 25 7 9 2 7 10010 Papp ch c 4 109 W Kelsay KelsayStar 15 33 9 3 11 10 43725 Star Class ch f 4 98 J Wessler 23 18 5 1 5 7 3148Corn 3148 Corn Tassel br g 5 108 L lyke 20 53 17 17 6 13 18869 18869Exterminator Exterminator ch g 4 128 J Butwell 2 2614 5 4 3 45922 45922Sweep Sweep On b c 3 108 L McAtee 3 18 6 3 36 2X247 2X247Vindex Vindex b c 3 106 E Ambrose 5 7 2 0 0 5 2093 2093War War Cloud b c 4 122 W Knapp 4 22 9 3 2 8 33392 33392Lanius Lanius ch g 4 120 J loftus 6 15 6 1 1 7 11048 11048Over Over There b c 3 102 H Myers 9 19 4 5 2 8 3455
