Show SEASONS SEASON'S BEST TO COMPETE ON EMPIRE COURSE Brilliant Track Performers Will Race at Five-day Five Meet at New York loll 1 the first time since 1310 the thet FOR Fon t grand circuit harness races are swinging r around to Now New York and with all aU the advantage of heightened interest t In what tho results will be bo when shen the tho many man brilliant track performers performers per per- formers torment elsewhere this season come to together to gether Kether at Empire City park In tho the five five- day mooting meeting beginning Tuesday In connection with the third annual l Greater Great Great- er em Now New York fair fall Local horsemen have havo kept kepl on breeding trotters and pacers If It not so 80 extensively at least as successfully through the period Just past when whoa most of or tho the race tracks In Inthe Inthe inthe the tatu statu were Idle This Is strikingly ly shown In the tho fact that of the fourteen horses eligible to start in the tho 00 raco race for trotters on the opening day dU at Yonkers six ix were bred by NewYork NewYork New Now York horsemen Three are arc owned b by metropolitan and three others are arc the offspring of noted trotting sires owned In New York There Thero is Bonington ton 2043 a sensational sensa sensa- young ir stallion bred and still r n T I 1 VIIU U uy H. H j i. i v. v J MUX I mini l president of or the tho New Now York stock exchange ex ex- change at his Hill lull and Dalf Dale farm near Mamaroneck 1 Bonington's dam Nettle King 2203 was also the dam darn of oC The Abbot 03 the tho worlds world's record trotter of fifteen years earS back Ed Geers' Geers first attempt to handle Bonington a afew afew few rew das da's days ago ao at Kalamazoo brought the tho stallion his fast record and convinced convinced con con- vinced a great many horsemen that Bonington ton will bo be an important factor factor fac tac- tor In tho the race raco for Cor the Greater NewYork Now New York stakes stukes at the Empire track Worthy Worthy Wor Wor- thy Prince winner of ot second money in the race Mr Dickerman's horse captured is coming back to race in the count county wh where re he ho was bred b by the late John II H. Shults of oC Brooklyn Mr Shults' Shults farm near Port Chester Isnow is isnow isnow now owned by another well known New Now York hor horseman eman Nathan Straus If It orth Worthy Prince continues to finish second second sec see ond he ho will be eligible for the same races again ne next t year Jear and ond so far tar he has hag not won anything better than second second sec see ond mono mone money for Cox who is partial to horses that can go through the circuit arid and keep in their class timers Old-timers tell teU of or one instance when his breeder Mr Ir Shults had to pin a 20 bill on tho the halter halter halter hal hal- ter of or a well bred colt at the American I horse exchange e before the auctioneer could get a a. bid bid but It was not quite that bad when Worthy Prince came under the hammer as a year old And I yet et the tho for tor Which ho was sold represented represented rep rep- resented only onh a fraction of ot what he would bring today Now owned In Illinois bred by Mr Ir Shults at the Westchester est chester farm is another horse to be bo reckoned with In tho the race at New ew York His sire Axworthy was tho the best besl stock horse Mr Ir Shults over oYer owned and cost the least It w was at a sale of at trotters trotter owned b by A. A B. B Darling of ot the Uio theold old Fifth Avenue hotel that the son of oC Axtell 2 1 was picked up for tor Ho Ito afterwards brought 1 when whon Mr Ir Shults sold him thereby making the biggest mistake of ot his career as a breeder Four of ot the tho best trotters In Inthe Inthe inthe the coming race raco at Empire City park are arc direct descendants of oC Axworthy A. A and Bright Worthy 08 are his sons and Lee is by an another another another an- an other son eon Guy Axworthy 2081 while Worthy Prince is out of at Nell Noll Worthy orthy by A Axworthy worthy Ono One of ot Thomas Thomaa W W. Murphys Murphy's entries In the New Ne York race Lulu Lumine 2061 a heat hent winner in the tho mud at Kalamazoo Kal Kal- was bred by L L. I. I of or Now New York and Is now owned by bv A A. H. H Cosden a wealthy amateur r of or the New York Driving club Sho Is tho the smallest trotter In the grand Arand circuit cir elm weighing weighing- just pounds in r racing mac rac cInE c- c ing InE trim Asked how much she cost Mr Ir Cosden usually says Just 16 a pound which is exactly correct since ho he paid for tor her a little more morn tha than a ay year ear ar ago Though he did not breed Peter Scott and Peter Mc- Mc CormIck W. W E. E D D. D Stokes owns the sire siro of oC both of oC these fast stallions entered in the race raco The They are sons of or Peter th the e Great 2 the sire of ot Peter Volo Yolo Peter Scott was beaten only a head in 2043 2042 when I Lee e Axworthy won tho the thoI thoM M M. M I M. M at Detroit and so 50 good a Judge as Ed Goers Geers is reported to have ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the opinion that he will yet take the tho measure of ot tho the champion 4 year old However Lee Axworthy is still the favorite since he lowered the tho colors of ot Peter Volo 02 at Cleveland two weeks ago and the tho crack year 4 I old wa was bred b by William Bradley who formerly owned BIngen the sire lot of Uhlan All ll considered the tho Greater New York stakes Is so full cun of ot possibilities that promise well for tho the excitement of at the day that Its position following Montreal is like bringing the big news homo home again aln NEW SE F. F A A. A M. M i I. I OI OFFICIALS I A A. A B. B Clark of ot Pittsfield Mass Ic- Ic Nary Brothers of Salem Ore and 0 O. B. B Hughes of at Battleboro Nt have been appointed to act as F. F j i M. M attorneys In their respective by b Chairman Chair man John Johnson of at the F. F A. A M. M legal ac actiOn action ac- ac tion committee George e W. W Lewis of ot Stockholm N N. J. J has been appointed local F F. A A. M. M commissioner for Sussex Sussex Sus SUs- sex county count while Lincoln Holland Jr of ot Newark in tho same famo state has been beci appointed to a similar capacity for tor Esex Essex Essex Es Es- sex ex count county A A 2000 MILK E VACATION Cecil Bro Brown n a motorcycle enthusiast ast 1st of or Pipestone Minn lInn spent his months month's vacation In the tho saddle of or his I motorcycle cle Brown rown left leU Pipestone on I Juno June 23 and rode to Dodge City where ho he arrived in time Hmo to s see ee the mile mUe International motorcycle race Ho He then passed through Sioux Falls Sioux City Omaha Lincoln Manhattan Council Bluffs and back home bome The schedule showed a mileage of ot over 2000 |