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Show ting beaten here. The Rock Sand colts are all good lookers, but gie, one the impression that they will excel ex-cel with more age and over greater distances. Many a famous race horse has been n disappointing 2-year old. Francis R. Hitchcock will start Blackfoot a mighty good son of tho Yankee and Tepee. Hashl is tho greatest filly out this year, and will have a world of support. sup-port. She Is fast and game, and is easily handled in a race She may be depended upon to get neay. and she can stay. Her race In tho Spina way was a great feat, and the one that bents her will probably got the money. This one may be Noeltv. Nobody knows how geo.J he is exeeot Ulldreth, and If you could read his thoughts todny you could prlohaldv find that he thinks his "Custer"' will flnl?h in front Tohn Stanford's chestnut colt Paton will be a starter. He Is unknown in public form, but his private work is said to bo better than anything the Hurricane Pt"d hns nt the track. Tie Is a son of Chotfnunda and Retaliation., Retalia-tion., and that means speej and grit. FUTURITY TO BE ' HONORABLE THIS SEASON XBv Hillary Ollmann. From present indications It looks as tboush the Futurity this season would be a memorable one despite the awful handicap under which racing rac-ing is bng carried on. The probable : starters sent out by the Coney Island Jockey Club show nearly all the youngsters of class that have per formed this year. Naushon winner of the United States hotel stakes. Is row at his bet. This colt by Yankee out of the Royal Cun. is fast and game. H's finishes remind one of the run-niiTg run-niiTg of bis half sister Ounfire, a mate that carried the late W. C Whitney Whit-ney s colors In t lie front in man races with horses of the best class. Novelty showed his qualitv bv winning win-ning the Saratoga Special and in the match race with Textile proved tint quarter around twenty two seconds and keep on going. He was well named "Buster" by the stable hois and a good start menus a lot in the race like the Futurity. You can start letting now on one thing, and that Is that "Buster," will get away, or tbereab.ints. Th more one looks at this little colt the more he finds to admire. His legs are powerful, his muscles firm and he has that bull dos cut of head whlcli horsemen like to se He has more Individuality than almost any cdt it the track, and, individuality in-dividuality counts for more In race horses than most persons emagine. Hlldreih will hae him on razor edge. That shrewd owner Is on edge himself, him-self, and to us-- the- slang expression. Is stepping every eighth in eleven seconds As a trainer of race horses he Is probably now at his best, and lhat means a whole lot when It is applied ap-plied to such a veteran as the man from the middle West. Water-vale Is a handsome colt, hut has not done much since he won bis firtt race. He is a big Watercress who will impreuo In time, but not sufficiently between now and Ihe nod of the month to win the classic. Like several others of the same greed he Is sluggish. Babbler won the Tremont nt Grave-send, Grave-send, but he Is only a falrVborse. If tbo track should be muddy It will Improve bis chances, for the Hastings tribe can get through heavy going with the best of them. Footprint la, a rangv s-on or Rock Sand and winner of the great American Ameri-can at Graveeend, but has been get- |
