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RENEWAL OF THE SUBURBAN Most Famous of Eastern Handi ¬ caps to Be Run Next Saturday Sir Barton Boniface Extermina ¬ tor and Other Stars Among the Probable Starters NEW YORK N Y June 2 The Suburban rich ¬ est in romance and tradition of the great metro ¬ politan spring handicaps of continuous history the successive runnings of which have brought year after year to Sheepshead Bay and Bclmont Park immense crowds of sport loving men and women of every quarter and section of the United States aiid Canada will be renewed at Rclinont Park next Saturday with a big field of unusually highclass thoroughbreds three years old and over competing A gallop of one mile and a quarter the Suburban will this year have a value of about 10000 of which 5000 will be added money moneyThat That next Saturdays nenewal will be witnessed by another vast throng in which will be found every age and condition of American life is a foregone conclusion Not in fifteen years has the attendance ar metropolitan race courses been as generous as it is this year Racing appears to have taken a new and unshakable grip on the imagination of the American people and 110 other great special of the permanent metropolitan program has ever had the popular appeal the Suburban has enjoyed since its institution at Sheepshoad Bay in 1881 TheSub urban along with the Futurity and thij Lajvrence Realization are Bclmont Parks invaluable legacies from the defunct Coney Island Jockey Club ClubThe The colors of some of the most distinguished American sportsmen will be borne by the ten or a dozen seasoned racers that will constitute the Suburban field Sir Barton the winner last year of 88250 and acknowledged champion among the threeyearolds and Boniface winner already this year of the Pimlico Spring Handicap 4ln Maryland and the Clark Handicap in Keiituckyalso an un ¬ successful contestant in the recent reijcwal of the gDbbO Torontp Cu will represent Cpmiriaiider J LV Rbss of Montreal who for two years has been the leading money winner of American horsemen Unluckily Purchase Sir Bartons greatest rival among the threeyearolds of the season of 1011 is not to start Purchase broke down training for the Metropolitan Handicap some ten days back It is improbable that he will appear on a race course again But Exterminator Dinner of the Kentucky Derby of 1918 and conqueror of Purchase in last summers Saratoga Cup is in rare condition and he will bear the silks of Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Blug liamton now one of the considerable producers of thoroughbreds of the Empire State WEALTH OF GOOD MATERIAL MATERIALIn In lieu of Purchase the starters under the silks of Samuel C Hildreth and his racing partner Harry F Sinclair one of the great oil producers of Okla ¬ homa and the southwest will be Thunderclap win ¬ ner in October of last year of the Annapoli6 Handi ¬ cap in the running of which he established a new American record of 229 for one and a half miles and that staid little gelding Corn Tassel which de ¬ feated Sweep On In last years Suburban Over There which won last falls Lawrence Realization but was disqualified on a protest lodged bythe rider of Thunderstorm is galloping promisingly and he will race for W R Coc a thoroughbred producer of Wyoming along with the promising threeyearold David Haruni On Watch will start as thcreprescu tative of George W Loft of New York and UpsLt the contender in this years Kentucky Derby will race with Wildair whmerof the Metropolitan Han ¬ dicap for Harry Payne Whitney proprietor of the Brpokdale Stud of New Jersey andtJieJeadjng thor ¬ oughbred producer of the Atlantic Seaboard Both Upset and Wildair have given unmistakable proof of ability to take excellent care of themselves in com ¬ petition with horses of mature years over long dis ¬ tances of ground and there are many who think that On Watch with fair raeing luck would have de ¬ feated Paul Jones in the Kentucky Derby DerbyPaul Paul Jones the Virginiabred gelding bj Sea King May Florence that astonished thousands of persons at Churchill Downs on May 8 by winning the Kentucky Derby is another probable starter of renown Vflth the possible exception of Man o War Paul Jones is the most talked of threeyear ld in the United States He has galloped so en ¬ couraging since his return frtwi Kentucky William Jarth has about decided that it would be folly not to give him a chance to show his quality to a iietroimlitan crowd next Saturday The ultimate ibjective of Paul Jones is the 15000 Latohia Derby a race of biie mile and a half for threeyear lds that will be decided in Kentucky on June 1 aid Garth is not unmindful of the fact that Johrcn journeyed to Latonia in the summer of 1918 and von the Latonia Derby after having defeated a bund f splendid racers of mature years in the Suburban f tliat year Johren was one of four stout threc1 rearolds to win the Suburban The others wctru friar Rock Africander and Fitz Herbert Garth s confident that he has in Paul Jones in this year f grace as good a threeyearold as was any of hese Paul Jones will represent next Saturday J Cosden another considerable producer of oil of he southwest and Captain Ral Parr a popular sportsman of Baltimore BaltimoreAll All things considered this years Suburban re lewal promises a contest worthy of the blst tfadi ions of a race that has been won in the course of lie last forty years by such celebrated flyers as ontiac Troubadour Rateland Siilrutoty Montana lenry of Navarre Ben Brush Imp Kiiiley Mack Sold Heels Hcnnis Beldame Ballot Olambala Ahisk Broom II Stromboli and Boots as well ns y Corn Tassel Africander Fitz Herbert Friar lock and Johrcn
