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FITTING A FILLY FOR ENDURANCE STAKES Louisville Ky August 17 The coming 10000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes to be run on Monday October 7 at Churchill Downs will have among its Btarters this season for tin first time a filly which when last on the turf in 1JI1I was rated as of the highest class This is Swaimanoa owned by K C Cowdln of Mt Kisco N Y Of recent years there have been few good long distance mares on 1he turf but the time is not so far distant when mares outranked horses or geldings in covering Jong distances of ground Unless Swannanoa is a Kood filly at four miles there Is no mare now on the course showing a disposition to run such a race un ¬ less It be the Texasbred marc Meadow The latter is not in this race raceIt It would be pleasing to horsemen to see this good looking daughter of Watercress capture this rich event as her owner has long been a staunch patron of racing and has spent a fortune to secure a high lass turf performer As far as Swaunaiioa went as a threeyearold she raced brilliantly winning thr v races and being only once unplaced She seemed then to possess dazzling speed and to all appear ¬ ances could stay as well As an individual she was one of the grandest looking thoroughbreds in training a real picture type with the length and leverage of the great Epsom Oaks winners winnersIn In the old days mares figured remarkably in the running of four mile races Nearly eighty years ago Black Maria and Ariel dominated such events Trille was another wonder of those times Then there was Fashion Slie defeated Boston the great ¬ est of all four milcrs She in turn was defeated 1 y Pcytonla another mare It was not long then until the remarkable Idlnwilil appeared Afterward cauie such stars at the distance as leannette KUi Pease Mollie McCarthy and Fcrida The record for fpur miles is 711 and is held by Lucretia Borgia a mure Until Lexington and Lecoinpte appeared mares had the better of the argument with horses in fourmile raws Old timers will always say that Fashion wis Bostons superior although it Is ad ¬ mitted that when she met him he was in the decline of his career careerWhen When Idlewild ran her great fourmile race she defeated a great horse in Jerome Edgar and when Katie Pease ran her fourmile race for a 20000 stake in California she beat every good horse at tue distance In this country This she accomplished in heals healsA A wonderful performer at long distances in recent years was Mamie Algol She would one day win a short race at a mile and a sixteenth for instance1 and In a day or two after beat all the cracks t three and four miles Her Thornton Stakes per ¬ formance at Oakland Cal in 1907 will always be referred to as one of the greatest longdistance races ever decided in America She lost that event to Los Angeleno but her defeat was due to the supe rior bundling of Los Angoleno by W Kiiapp For the last two miles the pair ran head and head for the entire distance The gameness that Mamie Algol displayed under an inferior ride probably has never before nor since been duplicated in this country Mnmle Algol was beaten by a nose Mamie Algols record at throe miles at City Park New Orleans 5s 510 and is still the record for the distance distanceIn In reviewing the brilliant record of longdistance mares as noted it is seen that E C Cowdin may not IK doing an unwise thing in titling Swannanoa for tho Keiilurky Endurance Stakes Fillies and mares are at their best in Oetol r It was in that month that Firenzi lieat the marvelous Hanover It was in the fall that Miss Wood ford defeated such stars as George Kinuey Eloe and the Epsom Derby winner Iroquois IroquoisSwannanoa Swannanoa is now four years old and may he called a matured mare She never has been raced excessively has been given every attention in her long retirement and it may bo that she will develop info an Idlewild or a Katie Pease in the Kentucky Endurance Stakes by leading to the finish all of the noted performers of the opposite sex that race against her herSwannanoa Swannanoa probably will have to meet in tills race that trio of great threeyearolds Free Lance Froglegs and Worth all Derby winners and such fouryearolds as Star Charter and Meridian as well as such a superior fiveyearold as The Turk Then too there is Messenger Boy winner of the event last fall fallThe The horses that will compete in this race on Octo ¬ ber 7 will break all records as to quality in such 1 contest The entries which will be named on September 2 are sure to embrace almost every goo1 burse now in training Such a rich stake is now rarely heard of in America and all of the leading turfmen are keen to win the honor as well as the money and the 1000 gold cup donated by the Ken ¬ tucky State Racing Commission
