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FITTING FINALE FOR KENTUCKY SEASON. Good Horses for Latonia Cup to Be Run on Closing: Day of Latonia Meeting, Cincinnati, O., October 25. The ,000 Latonia Cup, two miles and a quarter, to be run on the closing day of the meeting here on Saturday, November 8, bids fair to be an unusually brilliant event and to furnish a fitting close for the 1913 season of racing iu Kentucky. Among the eligibles to this rich stake are a uumler of horses which have made good records this year over a considerable distance of ground. One of these is Mrs. L. A. Livingstons three-year-old filly Pandorina, winner of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes at Churchill Downs this fall, and another long distance star is M. C. Moores Clubs, winner of the ,000 Louisville Cup, two miles, at the recent Douglas Park meeting. If Pandorina is shipped here to run In this event, which is more than likely, jockey C. Gross having been engaged to ride her in case she starts iu this race, it will mark her first meeting with Clubs, as that gelding was not engaged in the Kentucky Endurance Stakes. Another good iverformer eligible to the Latonia Cup, which has been racing recently in high-class form, is Samuel U. Meyer and, while .this horse ha,s never gone anything like the cup distance, he has won up to a mile and an eighth iu close to record time. Cousin Puss is another that is expected to run a good race in the Latonia Cup. She had much bad racing luck in the Louisville Cup. and is capabl? of a much better performance over a long distance than her recent race at Douglas Park would indicate. Other eligibles to this race that are still in training here include the Kentucky Derby winner. Douer-ail. Harry Lauder. Marslion, Sir Catcsby, Foundation, Just Red and Jenny Geddes. Manager Hach-meister looks for a field of record-breaking size In the Latonia Cup this season, as the event Is a haudicap and the weights which will be adjusted bv Secretary E. W. Mnginn are sure to be so allotted as to give each or the various starters a pood winning chance. The weights will be announced Wednesday, November 5, four days before the running of the race. All of the boxes at Latonia have been reserved .for Latonia Cup day, and Indications point to the presence of one of the largest crowds that has ever seen a days racing at Latonia in the fall of the year. In arranging his program for the day. Secretary Maginn will offer a most attractive list of over night races, as a setting for the chief event of the meeting-. A irsual. the winner of the Latonia -Qui will receive a beautiful soltfl silver loving cup. which is now being finished by the-manufacturer at a Cost to the Latonia Racing AssnjjIntJon of 00. Two miles and a quarter, jte rdjtawo of the Latonia Cup. is and always has neen the popular distance in this country as well as in England, for a cup race. Many great contests have been run ir this country and In England, over this route, and iu the opinion of trainers, it is the ideal distance to really test the merits aud stamina of the thorough bred race horse. One remarkable race at this distance was run in the Saratoga Cup of 1S73. when Springbok, then a live-ycar-old and ridden by W. Clark, and Preakness. a six-year-old, ridden by William Hayward. ran a dead heat in :i:5GVi, th fastest time run at this distance up to that date. The afterwards great California sire, Grinstead. ran third in that race, and in fact it was one of the most brilliant bands of cup horses that ever met in a race of this character in this country. The record these two great dead-heaters established that day. now nearly forty years ago. still remains the track record or two miles and a quarter over the Saratoga course. Springbok, one of the heroes of this famous race, passed his stud days in Kentucky, and among the brilliant winners he sired was Audrain, which in 1SS4, won the Hindoo Stakes, the race which developed into the present latonia Derby. Preakness. the other dead-heater, went to. England and anion? the good horses lie sired there was Fiddler, which also nroved a cup race performer. Of Griustcad, which ran third in that great stake.tt is sufficient to say that he contributed more tlian any other horse to the fame of E. J. Baldwin as a turfman by sending to the races the many stars that in llaldwins early career made his black jacket and crimson sash so noted on American tracks, and he still ranks as one of the most successful sires of great horses in the annals of American thoroughbred breeding. The public is fond of long-distance racing and for this reason the Latonia Cup is Invested with more interest than any other race scheduled to be run here this fall.
