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EQUIPOISE OUT FOR YEAR More Serious Trouble Than Quarter Crack Develops, Necessitating Retirement of Colt. When it was discovered on Kentucky, Derby morning that Equipoise was suffering from a blind quarter crack there wa_ a confidence expressed that the magnificent son of Pennant and Swinging would bo brought back to the races for his fall engagements. In fact there were high hopes that he might be made ready for racing late in August. Now it develops that Equipoise has a much more serious trouble than this quarter crack, and there is small hope of his being seen under silks again this year. NoW. the trouble is in the coffin joint, and it is of a nature that is much more serious than the foot injury. This is one more bit of misfortune for! the C. V. Whitney stable, and there has already been more than a share of misfortune. After much care and nursing Boojunt was brought out by Thomas J. Healey, and he ran only once to go amiss again. Last year Boojum was denied his opportunity by reason of infirmity, and Whichone, never entirely sound, broke down rather badly in the Travers, where he seemed to have a royal chance to wrest the crown from Gallant Fox. At the same meeting Equipoise developed a blind splint, when he was beaten by Jamestown in the Saratoga Special. True,; Equipoise came back and his last race as a two-year-old, the Pimlico Futurity, was the greatest of his career. During the winter the Whitney silks promised to dominate the three-year-old classics with such a colt as Equipoise. He was brought back to the races magnificently by Fred Hopkins, but he failed in each of his big engagements. His first was the Chesapeake, at Havre de Grace, which went to Anchors Aweigh, and the other was the Preakness, while he was not even able to get to the post for the Kentucky Derby. Thus it happens that the Whitney stable, with all the winter promise, is left in a more crippled condition for the racing of this year than it was last season.
