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KENTUCKY ENDURANCE STAKES HAILED AS BEING OF GREAT BENEFIT TO THE AMERICAN TURF New York October 24 One of the greatest things done for the turf in recent years was the IStablish ment of the Kentucky Kudnrance Stakes the famous fourmile race which the Kentucky Racing Commis ¬ sion fathered and which was ran for the first time last year when Messenger Boy won 1 had a sent mental interest in this colts success because I had seen him racing at Tampa in the spring of that yea and he always struck me as a natural fourmilcr That the big stake should have gone to a poor man was also something of a romance We haye prob ¬ ably seen the last of Messenger Boy but I dont think we have seen the lastof his successor in tle same event that wonderful mare Sotemia which sat a Ha me with enthusiasm 18000 spectators on OctO her 7 at Louisville when sheestablsh d a new ree ord for the distance She had also made a record in another respect she had only ten days before won the Ontario Jockey Club Cup twp and a quarter miles at Toronto iu which she also made a new Canadian record after having won the same race the preceding year aud having run second for it in 1910 when she was only a threeyearold If evei there was a living example of how the breed is be ¬ ing improved by racing it certainly is Sotemia I do not recall just such another case of a mare tak ¬ ing part for three consecutive years in the longest race run on this continent with the exception of the Endurance Stakes and that this same mare should be of such a robust nature as to withstand the journey from Baltimore to Louisville and within such a short period thereafter outstay all the best of her opponents was enough Io warm the hearts of the enthusiasts I envied Major Daingerfield and his associates the pleasure they must have had in realizing what a perfect success has been the En ¬ durance Stakes StakesWe We can quite believe In this announced plan of Air Wiiin that the New Loninville Jockey Club will in future go on building up the Endurance Stakes until it becomes of such magnitude that licrhaps English turfmen might make entries and race for the money as they did at Washington Park iu 1S93 And how truly grateful we all should be that there aro at least two states In the Union which welcome the thoroughbred instead of driving him eirt of the country With Kentiicky and Mary ¬ land still the arena racing is In some degree safe for a long time to come itJs hoped and with thoroughbred affairs are looking up partlcularly since the decision of Judge Scndder on the betting question and the statement made by Mr Belmon1 that matters looked better for the turf on account of the decision decisionWe We were talking over the Sotdmia race the other day Tom Gallagher and myself and he said It is forgotten apparently that her sire Locohatchee was formerly Curt Giiuu HIH wellknown on the western turf in 1S01 1 had not forgotten it however and was awaiting a little leisure time in whieli to sit down and write Racing Form a letter on the matter Of the 18000 who yelled themselves hoarse when Sotemia won I will venture to say that no one had a deeper sentimental Interest In the performance Jthan W II Laudemhn known all over the country as Hops Laudeinan It was this wellknown turfman who now holds tlie position of inspector of the parimutuel machines on Ken ¬ tucky tracks who raced Curt Gunu as a twoyear old iu 1891 when we all saw him win the Hyde Park Stakes worth 10550 at Washington Park and prior to that the Kenwood Stakes value 2555 In the latter he was ridden by Tiny Williams the most successful twoyearold rider of liis day but n the Hyde Park the colt was ridden by Isaac Lewis who had been W L Scotts jockey In the Hyde Park Cnrt Gunn carried 123 pounds he defeated all the best of the year on the western tnrf this including Bashford Chief Justice Fara dav each 12 pounds and others It hiust haye leant the survival of the best because four of le horses had up penalties for previous victories Curt Gunn finished up the season as the property of Mr Laudeuian but that fall lie was purchased by Mr Pierre Lorillard for a large snui of moniry and his first race in 1892 was in the Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park Here he first appeared as Locohatchet late Curt Gunn and with 105 pounds up Touy Hamilton in tho saddle he ran a strong second to Walcott Campbells Pesarra fourycarsold 117 pounds Taral up The beaten division included Plcknicker Russell and the Call fornla mare Fairy It was a line performance for 1 threeyearold As the season advanced Locohatcueo became a noted longdistance performer and among his victories were the Uackcnsack Puritan Palisade and Freehold Stakes the latter a mile and a half In the last named race he carried 101 pounds Bergen up and defeated Poet Scout 112 Tenny 115 and Bouquet 115 Simuis up The lastnamed finished first in a desperate race and fouled both Locohatchee and Poet Scout and was disqualified The race was run over the outer course at Mon mouth Park the reverse way of the track Loco ¬ hatchee did not race after 1802 and not long after ¬ wards became a stallion at Rancocas It was dur ¬ ing the successful period that John Huggins was training for Mr Lorillard and not even when Matt Byrnes had charge of the horses had the stable much greater success Mr Lorillard that year had bought Lamplighter for 20000 from Brown Rogers aud as your readers will recall the horse ran in the 25000 Columbus Handicap of 1803 at Washington Park but found the game much harder than ever before and was seventh in the memorable race won by Rudolph 107 pounds poundsIt It is well worth recalling the names of the horses which finished l ehind Rudolph in that great race Zo Tambien 118 Ray S 113 Londoun 101 Illume 100 Diablo 11C Lamplighter 120 Morelo three years old 113 Michael 110 Poet Scout 115 Highland 10S Huron Ill Ida Pickwick 118 Wildwood 10S Maid Marian three years old 105 and Santa Anna 108 In the after illumination of history this racenow looms up as one of the great ¬ est ever run on this continent No wonder Lamp ¬ lighter was beaten He was at once brought back to Saratoga and won five straight races before Sir Lorillard in a moment of irritation announced that he would sell out his stable and it was then that Fred Walbaum paid 20000 for Lamplighter whom you1 all again saw at Chicago that fall but again lie disappointed disappointedReturning Returning tb Lucohatehee or Curt Gunn he was by Onondaga one of Leamingtons best sops as a twoyearold and was out of the Teh BroeckV mare Sophronla A sister to Soteinia well known afbw years ago was Logistilla On the day that Sotemia won the two and a quartermile race at Toronto Mr Livingston told me that his wife has no inten ¬ tion of reducing operations on the twoi stock farms she owns in Now Jersey and at Cobourg Canada Mr Livingston said that his wife owns eleven stal lions and 140 broodmares With the racing as well as breeding she is doing In Canada her horses and marcs arc doing a lot of good there They arts al fine specimens large and symmetrical and the tur ¬ quoise blue white braid black cap has many fol ¬ lowers whenever any of her horses appear Mra Livingstone can be justly proud of Sotemias supe ¬ rior form this year over that of all others in races which really test stamina What a great colt such 1 a marc should thrmv to the cover of a stallion like Rock Sand for instance instanceCurt Curt Gunn after whom the colt was named was a wellknown sporting man of Chicago The day the colt won the Hyde Park Stakes Mr Gunn backed him to win a large sum of money At one time he was at 20 to 1 Oh he is backing him only out of sentiment the bookies said But Tom Stevens who trained the colt had told Curt Gunn about the good one he was wasA A member of the confederacy who raced horses in Tom Stevens stable at that time was Myer a tall Hebrew who owned the colt Palestine I saw Myer on Broadway a few days ago agoJOSEPH JOSEPH J BURKE
