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HONOR DIADEM GREATLY IN WEIGHTS [ Officially Appraised as the Best Handicap Horse b in England in Big Spring Races. Weights given the nomination* to tbe great bandii apu of He- BugUsb sin-ins racing campaign ■ were shade puMic January St. Acceptances were due February Sand will soon bi available. oi until i then ran the probable starters be selected with any approximation to the uHimate occurrence. In a the meiiniinie a lew item- are of Interest. Lord Olnnelys six-year-old Urand Fleet has been i, given top wei-ht in the Lincolnshire Handicap. Liverpool Bpring Cup and the Queens Priae :it t Kemptoa Park, which amounts to an official I declaration thai be i- the best hot—- in tbe three ■ races. Bui .-i higher compliment bus been paid Lord dAhemona spsendM ssare Blade m in giving L her the post of honor In the three moot Important of all the ups Ini handicaps. For the City and II Suburban, to be ran April 21, Bl .-i mile aafl ■ quarter, her bnpoal is !l".i pounds. Bcatwell being I second with 1-M. For the Victoria Cup at Hurst t Park May 1 a dash of seven-eighths of a mile, , sin- has US pounds, Bcatwell again ranking next j to her With Ilii pounds. The Kemptoa Iark Great , .lubib-e Hand rap at ;i mile and :t quarter, and to ,, be i uii May 8, is the most valuable handicap of I the Knglhdi turf and attracts the highest das* handicap berau*. lb re Diadem hi oa top with ISO I i". mills. Arion next with 127, Grand Fleet following g with 128 and Bcatwell with 121. One would have e to go far back la find another year la which a a mar.- was thus declared by competent authority v t., in- the beat rnce horse la England in the four .Mar olds and mer division, sin- i- unquestJonablj 1 .1 wonderful creature, but the tasks thus allotted ■ her. especially so early in the year, are simplj mormons in ilnir exactions. He Roes one of 1 the best two-year-olds of last .Mar. is only ask d to carry KMI pounds in the Jubilee.
