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GREAT INTEREST IN ENDURANCE STAKES People Who Have Not Witnessed a Race in Years Planning to See FourMile Contest Louisville Ky September 20 The winning of the Douglas Park Inaugural Handicap last Monday by the threeyearold Buckhorn increased the interest in the 15000 Kentucky Endurance Stakes which will open the coming fall meeting at Churchill Downs Monday October 7 7Buckhorn Buckhorn Is entered in the Kentucky Endurance Stakes by Mackenzie Adklns and Is regarded as a sure starter in the big fourmile race In winning the Inaugural Handicap he showed great gaineness Though carried out all the way through the stretch by jockey Buxton on the light weighted Princess Callaway he hung on like a bull dog and ultimately won the race by a neck in track record time of 140 for the distance one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthPrevious Previous to coming to Douglas Park Bnckhorn raced brilliantly during the Windsor September meeting He won there both the Ferry and St Clair Handicaps and in the former race one mile and a sixteenth he equalled the Windsor track record by running the distance in 145 Among the horses he defeated during this meeting in Canada was J W Schorrs crack threeyearold Froglcgs which is also an Endurance Stakes eligible and a stable companion to the great Star Charter CharterBnckhorn Bnckhorn is engaged in the Boulevard and Cardinal Stakes yet to be run at Douglas Park running in which will go a long way toward fitting him for a fourmile contest He possesses keen speed and his recent races go to show that he is more than a sprinter and is able to cover a distance of ground in true race horse style He will get into the Endurance Stakes under an impost of 10S pounds and with a boy as skilled as B Steele to ride him he must be given a great deal of consideration now in figuring on the probable winner of the race raceBuckhorn Buckhorn is from the Bonnie Scotland line of horses some of which have proven rare stayers He is by Broomstick and that gallant horse stilL holds the mile and a quarter American record of 202 Broomstick is by Ben Brush a Kentucky Derby winner as a threQyearoId and a Suburban Handicap winner as a fouryearold ften Brush was by Bramble a great cup horse and Bramble was the son of Bonnie Scotland ScotlandThis This tribe of horses Iwginning with Quartermas ¬ ter and Regent back in the late sixties and early seventies were all sturdy horses Then came Lo chiel which was nexer asked to run over two miles hut he did that well Frogtown was the next good cn JHlTljl5 jJhree miles in 529i is still the best performance at this distance over the Lexington track He made this record on September 21 1S72 1S72One One of the most remarkable longdistance horses Bonnie Scotland ever sired was the famous Bush ¬ whacker He won the Bowie Stakes at Baltimore after a struggle of twelve mjles Princeton beating him the first heat while he won the last two heats and the rich stakes It will thus be seen that on his sires side Buckhorn comes from a line of horses that were not only brilliant performers but horses of remarkable stamina and endurance Buckhorn gets his phenomenal speed not only from the Bonnie Scotland sire line but from his dams side His dam Thirtythird was a smart twoyear old and threeyearold winner in 1904 and 1JOj She is a daughter of Sir Dixon whose get are speedy as well as good stayers Sir Dixou got such cracks as Blue Girl Blues George Arnold Kil marnock and others of equal ability Kilmarnock won the Chester Cup in England a race that is over a long distance of ground Thirtythird is out of High Degree by His Highness The latter won the Coney Island Futurity Stakes and High Degree also ran second in that event She was a smart filly and among her successes were the Clover and Vernal Stakes She was a sister to His Royal Highness that In 1S won the Eclipse Stakes and finished second in tho Juvenile and National Stallion Stakes In addition to Thitrythird she produced quite a good horse in Delmonico DelmonicoThe The family line of Buckhorn on the dams side is prolific with speedy horses headed by the great mare Pearl Jennings which was a star in the early racing establishment of the noted turfman Edward Corrigan Another member of this family was the famous Attilla which in 1S74 won the runoff for the Travers Stakes from Acrobat after a dead heat in that event This showed great stamina the distance of the stake being one mile and threequar ¬ ters tersFrom From the Havre de Grace track in Maryland comes the word that trainer Frank Taylor is fitting Adams Express H C Hallenbecks noted fouryear old for the Endurance Stakes While in the east rtcently Col M J Winn was informed by this turfmvn that Adams Express would surely be shipped to Louisville to run in Hie rich stakes Mr Taylor seems to fancy the fouryearold to run four miles this autumn more than he does the Kentucky Derby winner Worth which is also in his stable and Mr Hallenbeck may let the trainer have his own way Adams Express will be piloted in the En ¬ durance Stakes by that great rider Carroll H Shilling ShillingCharles Charles F Grainger president of the New Louis ¬ ville Jockey Club who has just returned home from a long stay in the east on his summer vacation has much to tell of the talk of various people of prom ¬ inence relative to coining to Touisville to see the running of the Endurance StaKcs He anticipates many new faces will be seen here this fall and says that he never saw a race that had created more gen ¬ eral interest than the Endurance Stakes He talked with men of wealth ami influence who have not vis ¬ ited a race track for years who told him that they would surely come to Louisville this fall to see the S150CO fourmile race at Churchill Downs
