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FUTURITY NEXT SATURDAY Rich Prize of 5,460 to Go to This Years Winner of Famous Race Prudery Big Favorite. The famous Futurity will be run next Saturday at Belmont Park. Time was when the Futurity was not only the most historical, but the most valuable of two-year-old races. In . 1890, when Potomac won it, it was worth 1920.sh7,075, the largest in its history. For the first nineteen years of its running the net value to the winner never fell below 0,0C0. Then came the lean days of the turf, with a corresponding decline in values to the Futurity and other noted races. However, tlie tide lias turned and tlie Futurity once more takes its pride of place among the richest prizes :t the American turf. The 1920 winner of the Futurity will receive 5,400, the largest return since 1900, when Electioneer won. There were originally 940 entries for this years race, of which 301 were void as per tlie conditions. Declarations further reduced the eligibles to the number of 101. While the West Chester Racing Association guaranteed 0,000 for the race it will not be obliged to pay one cent, the subscription and declaration fees bringing the total above the guaranteed sum, as the following shows: 98 eligible at 00 each 5,CS0 03 eligible at 170 each 10,710 120 declared at 00 each 7,200 253 declared at 10 each 2,530 33 declared at 70 each 2,310 72 declared at 20 each 1,440 Gross value 9,S70 Net value to winner 5,400 The above docs not include the starting fees, which in this race are divided, two-thirds to second horse and one-third to tlie third horse. In addition the nominators of tlie first three horses are rewarded, each receiving ,000, 00 and 50, respectively. Of tlie remaining 101 eligibles H. P. Whitneys grand filly. Prudery, appears to have the best chance of landing the rich prize next Saturday. That she was tlie best horse in the Hopeful Stakes when beaten by Leonardo II. few who witnessed that contest doubt. With, the McClelland star, Inchcape, and Tryster not in the Futurity, none of the others appears up to the standard of the Whitney filly, which, if successful Saturday, will be the first filly to win the race since 190S, when tlie late James R. Keenes Mnskette led home Sir Martin, Helmet and other grand horses. However, Prudery will not lack opposition, as such good ones as Ilildur. Careful, Believe Idle Hour, Smoke Screen, General J. M. Gomez, Tiie Bohemian, Brigadier General, Sailing B., Playfellow, John Paul Jones, Montalvo, in addition to her own stable mates, Ararat, Broom Spun, Dartmoor, Exodus, and the Wilson pair, Kirklevingtoii and Dimmesdale, tlie considered among tlie likely starters.
