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SIZING UP THREEYEAROLD ELIGIBLES ELIGIBLESOpinion Opinion Held in Some Quarters That Horse of That ABO Is Likely to Win Kentucky Endurance Stakes Louisville Ky September 1C Now that the en ¬ tries for the 15000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes four miles to be run on the opening day of the Churchill Downs ninedays meeting on October 7 are known keen speculation Is being indulged in concerning the probable winner of this event eventBecause Because of the fact that Messenger Boy a three yearold was triumphant in the race last season and set a new record for four miles the time being 7141i turfmen have been analyzing the chances of the eliglbles of that age with the idea that history will repeat itself next month monthMessenger Messenger Boy carried 10G pounds Threeyear olds this fall are asked to pick up 108 pounds Horsemen still think that a racer of this age lias the advantage over older hordes as In the autumn a colt gelding or lilly of this age is almost a four yearold yearoldThe The report is in circulation that trainer Frank Taylor Is preparing H C Hallenbecks Kentucky Derby winner Worth for the longdistance struggle Although J N Camden has his good stayer Boola Boola entered for this event he has also nominated a threeyearold Manager Mack MackGeorge George J Long has Instructed trainer Peter J Coyne to prepare the threeyearold Nicias for the Endurance Stakes as a substitute for his great La tonia Derby winner Free Lance which went wrong in training this fall fallR R J Mackenzie the Manitoba turfman has en ¬ tered his lleet threeyearold colt Ruckhoru and although J V Schorr has a performer of excep ¬ tional merit in Star Charter he has also named Froglegs the Hamilton Derby winner as one of his entries to this race Threeyearolds were not always regarded as prom ¬ ising material for fourmile races The oldtime tnrlineii wauled a hardy horse of more mature age and racing ability to carry Ids colors at four miles or in fourmile heats It was not until 1S70 that any threeyearold of prominence hooked up with an older horse in a race of this distance That season Hurry Bassett began his threeyearold career by winning the Belmont Stakes at a mile and live fur ¬ longs at Jerome Park lie followed this by taking I he Jersey Derby one mile and a half at Long P ranch From there he went to Saratoga where he won the Travers Stakes at a mile and threequarters the Kenner Stakes at two miles and then went to Jerome Park where he captured the Jerome Stakes at two miles and the Annual Slakes at two miles and a quarter Next lie went to Baltimore where he took the Dixie and Breckenridge Stakes the dist ¬ ance of each being two miles There was but one more Important event for him to win that season iu the east That was the Bowie Stakes fourmile beats also run at Baltimore He was a champion threeyearold but lie was expected to meet defeat in that event because Ilelmbold the best fourmile horse in America was to start When Harry Bas wtt beat Ilelmbold iu the lirst heat admirers of the older horse said Wait until the next heat Harry Bassett won and retired that season an un ¬ beaten threeyearold threeyearoldFor For several years afterward horsemen held to the opinion that a threeyearold was not suicrior to an old horse They reasoned that Harry Bassett was a freak horse Since Harry Bassetts time threeyear olds have frequently demonstrated that in the fall of the year they are equal if not superior to older horses in longdistance races racesThe The two miles and onehalf American record l21V was made by Kyrat as a threeyearold The two mile record 325Vf held by Everett was made when that horse was a threeyearold The best mile ami a quarter and the best mile and a half record are both to the credit of threeyearolds GiMxliicb having run a mile and a half in 230i and Broomstick a mile and a quarter In 202f At Saratoga Olanibala as a threeyearold ran a mile and threequarters in 25S which equals the record there for that distance At Sheepshead Ray Fitz Herbert as a threeyearold established the mile and liveeighths record of 245 At Gravesend Bal ¬ lot as a threeyearold established the mile and a half record of 231 At Morris Park the two mile and a quarter record of 350 was made by the throe yearold Gold Heels At Aqueduct the mile and a half record of 235 was scored hy the threeyearold lieaiiclere At Belmont Park tin mile and a quarter the mile and livesixteenths mile and threeeighth mile and onehalf and two miles and a quarter rec ¬ ords are all held by threeyearolds Master Robert having 351Tin won at the lastnamed distance in 351 Tin record for two miles and a half at Pimlico 43lU stands to the credit of Ballankeel made when a threeyearold The three mile record at Benniug 534 was likewise made by another threeyearold Ben Crockett
