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WITHERS FINE ATTRACTION Blue Larkspur, Jack High, Dr. Freeland and Other Stars in Decoration Day Program. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 29.— The Withers alone would make the racing of the Westchester Racing Association at Belmont Park this afternoon remarkable, but It is only one of four specials for the Decoration Day entertainment. There is the Juvenile for two-year-olds, the Memorial Day Handicap of seven furlongs and the Potomac Steeplechase. The Withers holds out great promise and with a larger and better-balanced £jeld than has been the general custom for this great mile classic. Thirteen were named through the entry box and with continued favorable weather and track conditions, there is no reason to expect withdrawals. It is a race that will recall the rivalry between Edward R. Badleys Blue Larkspur and George D. Wideners Jack High. These colts met several times last year and Blue Larkspur had the count over the son of John P. Grier until the running of the Hopeful, when Jack High was winner, with the son of Black Servant second. This year Jack High made good in his only race, while Blue Larkspur failed in the Kentucky Derby, though there was every excuse for his showing in the muddy condition of the track. The Withers does not begin and end with Jack High and Blue Larkspur. There is Chestnut Oak from Clendennin Ryans Oak Ridge Stable, which was third to Jack High and Blue Larkspur in the Hopeful. The son of Apprehension has been brought back to the races a truly good colt and he is ready. Another is Walter J. Salmons Preak-ness winner, Dr. Freeland. Joseph E. Wide-ner is represented by Marine and the maiden Indigo and both have shown recent form to warrant sending both to the post. Begorra and Dail are to bear the silks of W. R. Coe. The others of the promised staters are Sun Broom, from the Sagamore Stable ; The Nut, which races for the Warm Stable ; Vermajo and Calf Roper, two that race for W. T. Waggoner, the Texas sportsman, and Beacon Hill, the hope of H. P. Whitneys popular racing establishment. Such a field can not fail to make the Withers renewal a remarkable one. The juvenile will see Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilts Sarazen II. matched against the best that have been shown in the juvenile division. It is at five-eighths and several have shown enough preparation to promise that the Van-derbilt colt will have his hardest test.
