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S J I t j t 1 1 , , , s , i , SEABISCU1T GIVEN 133 POUNDS i John B. Campbell Announces Weights for Yorktown Handicap, to Be Run at Empire City. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17. J. B. Campbell has assigned Charles S. Howards Sea-biscuit 133 pounds in the mile and a furlong of the Yorktown Handicap, to be run at the Yonkers course of the Empire City Association, Saturday. There is no chance the son 1 of Hard Tack will be brought from Maryland -to fill the engagement, but the weight as- ! signment is none the less interesting. 1 William Ziegler, Jr.s, good mare, Esposa, j which took the measure of Seabiscuit in the Bowie Handicap at Pimlico last fall, is re- : quired to shoulder 124 pounds, and from that : weight the handicap drops down to 116, with which Count Morse is weighted. Idle Miss is in under 115 pounds, and among the lighter weights is Mrs. E. Graham Lewis Great Union under 107. This fellow went a mile and a furlong in 1:53 between races this afternoon and it was a move to pronounce him ready. The weights follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Seabiscuit 133 Great Union 107 Esposa ...124 Sunsun 107 Count Morse.... 116 Fair Stein ..106 Idle Miss 115 Maeriel 105 Cant Wait 112 Piccolo 102 Mythical King. . .112 Vamoose 102 Go Home 110 Torchlight 100 Count Arthur 107 Consul 95 4 .
