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BITTER BOY BEST OF THE "BITTER FAMILY." J. C. Cahn Kay Send Bitter Root to Kentucky for Service Next Spring:. Louisville, Ky., September 11. The . frequent appearance on the. racing programs of J. C. Calms oddly-named horses, the three-year-olds Bitter Hand and Bitter Brown, and the two-year-olds Bitter Miss, Bitter Anne, Bitter Boy and Bittersweet, has aroused no little curiosity among the racegoers as to why Mr. Cahn should have selected this nomenclature for his youngsters. They are all by Bitter Root, an English-bred horse by Royal Hampton, a son of Hampton, out of Buttermere by Doncaster, which was imported in utero by Marcus Daly. While these sons and daughters of Bitter Root have shown little so far, several of them have been knocking in and around the money at long prices, and all of them have size and quality enough to develop into useful performers. Bitter Boy is the pick of the lot. He is a big, growthy colt which has not yet run anywhere near to his form, one that looks as though he might develop into a high-class three-year-old. He is out of the well-known mare Linda, bred by James Galway and by Linden out of Adele, one of the famous mares of the stud book that threw, among other winners, Belmar, Beldemere and Adelbert. and which was owned and raced by Mr. Cahn until she was ten years old, beating many of the best horses of her day, including OConnell and Mor-ello. Mr. Cahn has a breeding farm in the Florissant Valley, about ten miles from St. Louis and within a couple of miles of Mr. Schrelhers Woodlands Farm, where he has also Counter Tenor and, besides Linda, the mares Crocket, South Breeze and fifteen others. Bitter Root is a half brother to Bute a son of Hampton, .and. -Buttermere- - the-- virr, vT- Unmn Horn. As a two-year-old Mr. Daly expected great things of him, but he went wrong in front and was disposed of, Mr. Cahn eventually securing him. He was put in training and won two races at Harlem, seven furlongs in 1:27 and a mile and a furlong In 1:52, when he was retired. He is a seal brown In color,, a big horse, standing 16 hands, an English type, but possessing better bone and substance than English horses usually have. Mr. ! Cahn thinks of sending him to Lexington the coming winter, where he will have a better opportunity than in Missouri to show what he can do in the way of getting high-class winners. Counter Tenor, winner of the Brooklyn Handicap, has already shown some little quality as a sire, as he has to his credit the fair performers Light Opera, Count Em Out and Howling Dervish. Mr. Cahn has eight sucklings by him and five by Bitter Root. He has eleven yearlings by Bitter Root at Memphis, but just how he is going to continue his "Bitter" style of. naming them is puzzling hlra at present.
