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MC DOffEl LS NEW STAR Tom McDowell, the young Kentucky turfman, has come to the front with a colt that will undoubtedly prove to be one of the seasons two-year-old champions. His Excellency, a big and handsome son of Esber— Excellenz*, made his first appearance at Latonia Tuesday, and the race he ran impressed everyone, and the opinion was unanimous among shrewd trainers that the colt is the best in the west. His Excellency is about the best looking colt that has been raced in these parts in years, and his running does not belie his looks. Down at Louisville this spring His Excellency made his first start of the season, and wai winning bis race in such a bis gallop that jockey Joe Hill eased him up at the sixteenth pole. Before he coald get the colt going again* be was nipped by a nose on the post by Estill. Shortly afterward His Excellency was taken ill, and he did not recover until the Latonia meeting was well under way. Yesterday was the colts second start, and he made a show of his field, literally walking away from the hithnrto 1 regarded crack, Lieutenant Gibbon. He turned five furlongs in 1 :0t4, and the way he did it was decidedly sparkling Tom McDowell purchased His Excellency from J. N. Camden, the owner of the Bartland Stud in Kentucky. Mr. Camden bred the colt, and Mr. McDowell, on account of his magnificent locks, picked bim oat of a bunch of forty jearlings. That Mr. McDowells judgment was good was evidenced yes-] terday, and as smart a judge as Ed Corrigan veo- tured the opinion that His Excellency wonld prove one of the best youngsters of the year. His Excellency is engaged in the Sensation Stakes, and will be seen in that event. He was also eligible for the Harold Stakes, won last week by St. Ivor, but Mr. McDowell deemed it best not to start him so soon after recovering from a spell of sickness. Mr. McDowell is very sweet on His Excellency, and says he is the best | racehorse he ever owned, which is saying much I in view of the performances of Rush, Spirit- uelle and Batten as two-year-olds.— Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, I
