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Son of Bimelech Very Appealing If Nashua Saturday is to show us something more than a mere exhibition, the responsibility for making a contest of this Belmont Stakes will probably lie with the colt Jabneh, sold by Laudy Lawrence only yesterday to Eugenia Bankhead and Louisa DA Carpenter, who has been prepared for this great objective in the French, rather than the American fashion. And this is quite natural since Lawrences colors, seen only occasionally in this country, have long been among the most successful on the French turf. Jabneh— a handsome and well-bred son of Bimelech— Bellesoeur, by Beau Pere — has earned compliments at his every public appearance here this spring, but the truth is that the colt has never been extended, and we do not know at all how good he may be. Back in Citations year, we were perfectly content to watch a marvelous mechanism in action, nor did the fact that the dead-game C. V. Whitney colt, Phalanx, could not pretend to extend Calumets great champion detract one iota from our pleasure in a glorious spectacle. In his three-year-old form, Citation illustrated the poetry of motion and the only contribution his rivals could offer to the occasion was to prompt him. Now Nashua is no Citation, once in a generation being as often as we can hope to see that kind of thoroughbred, bulj Nashua is and always has been a thoroughly good colt. With his great speed, speed resembling that of his dams sire, the Belmont Stakes winner, Johnstown, this rugged but perfectly balanced individual combines a soundness of limb that is all too rare, and that has already carried him through a schedule that would have been fatal to the chances of any but the stoutest "-
