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Show ENTERED IN FLIGHT STAKES. Blair Athol Considered a Horse of Some Promise. Trlbuno Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Feb. 10,-That Roscbcn's thrco-year-old full brother, Blair Athol. Is a horso of somo promise Is evidenced by tho fact that Maurice Hayman has put him in tho Flight stakes for next fall. Hayman mado the nomination on tho recommendation of David Walklns, a man who knows pretty well what to do with a horse. Blair Athol is a llno-look-Ing colt. Ho was developed by Bud May for Walter Schcftel, and Scheftel took a cnanco in tho Saratoga Special on him. Tho colt did not win tho Special, but he took a brace after the Saratoga meeting and landed a good race and a good bet for his owner and his owner's friends at Sheopshead Bay. ol-Ilooks something Ilko his brother nnd ho has plcntv of speed. If Blair Athol Is a horse of "the Roseben kind he will Improve with ago.Tlosobon, it will bo recalled, did not raco as a two-year-old. He was a big and bulfcy Enoch u Ishard d!d not want to tako chances with him. Horsco of Rosobon's heft break down easily whon raced too young. It was not until tho fail of his throe-year-old season that Roseben got out of tho maiden class. Rosobon also Is In tho Flight, and It Is safe to figure that he will do his running next year In soven-furjong races of that sort. Why ho was put In tho mllo and a quarter handicaps is not clear. It was demonstrated last summer by his easy defeat of Molly Brant that Rosobon Is no distance horse. He was uuablo to cam-Ilia cam-Ilia speod one mile, uvon. Training a sprinter like Roseben for distance races Is a. bnd business; It Is apt to deprive him of the speed he needs to win within his distance. Gould a Likely Candidate. Tribune Special Sporting Service, NEW YORK, Fob. 10,-Jay Gould's recent re-cent work In tho racquet and court tennis events has singled him out as a likely candidate for national honors. Both the racquet and tennis amateur chnmplou-shlpsj chnmplou-shlpsj aro held In New York. Lawrenco u aterbury Is racquet champion, and will defend tho title ln February in Boston and also holdn the gold racquet championship champion-ship of tho Tuxedo club, The national championship will bo held at Now York in March, and tho gold racquet rac-quet contest In February, having boon postponed to got Jny Gould as a competitor, competi-tor, loung Gould will also play in tho National, nnd with Joshua Crane, Jr., three times a former champion, ho ranks as advance favorito with Sands. |