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NEW RACING ESTABLISHMENT THAT PROMISES TO REVIVE OHIOS PRESTIGE IN THOROUGHBRED SPORT Louisville Ky March 1 The new racing firm of Corrigan A McKinney has mane an auspicious I beginning with its newly organized stable These sportsmen are looked noon as turfmen who wll give i ttu city of Cleveland Ohio a place of high honor in racing In the next few years tboy will send to i the races the product of the jnares which once com ¬ posed the famous stud of James R Keene by the sires which made that New Yorker so famous in his life time as a turfman both in this country and abroad abroadIn In recent years Ohio has had no turfmen of marked prominence wealth and social standing In the old days D 1 Crouse who raceii Ciiillicotiie Add Business and Willie D was rated as a r pic setntative turfman and the same applies to I R Harness who became famous as the breeder and owner of that sensational marc Imp John R Reber who imported Hurrah and Kyrle Daly will always have a place in the racing annals of the Buckeye stale ami Harry M Xeigiers name will ever be prominent whenever the turf triumphs of the mighty Hermis are recalled recalledThough Though Corrigan McKinney have at present but live horses in training they own in Ghetto Girl a lilly that many horsemen think may prove a turf queen This lilly won her first start February 2S at Juarez the race lioing the ChapiItepcc Handicap In this stake she met and defeated a good lot of threeyearolds some of which have fair race win ¬ ning records Her owners have entered her for the Kentucky Derby as well as the Kentucky Oaks and have abtrut decided to have her trainer W C Clancy tit her for the hig H 0H mlded event as well as train her with the Oaks race in view The Derby this year will be run on Saturday May S the opening day of the spring meeting of the New Ixmis ville Jockey Clnb and she can run in the race and then have a rest until Friday May 21 when the Oaks is run or the closing day of the meeting at Churchill Downs DownsThe The Kentucky Derby has never been won by a tilly but new things often turn ni in racing and some day oven if Ghetto Girl fails as has so often happened to horses of her sex iu the historic event a filly will come to the big raee with tile speed en ¬ durance and class that will enable her to siiowlior heels to the colts iir ll blR rhre7 if lufiT ebfucTfo pass on several oce ICpsoin Downs DownsGhetto Ghetto Girl wn bred and foaled in Kentucky though her breeder the late J S McCnllough was an Illinois turfman She was broken as a yearling and trained as a twoyearold by James Grifliu Be ¬ fore he coulil race her however her owner died and this necessitated her being turned out of training with the rest of the horses as the executor of the estate entered all the thoroughbred stock sold The entire collection was disposed of at public auction last fall at Lexington and Ghetto Girls present owner got her on a bid of iflCW iflCWShe She is a daughter of Ben Brush which won the Kentucky Derby in the colors of M J Dwyer in 1SDO and whose grandsou Meridian beat Governor Gray in tin classic in 11111 Her dam Debacle is an Knglishbred mare a daughter of the Kpsom Derby winner Bend Or and a stud matron which has never as yet failed to produce a winner She has so far had only four foals to live to a racing age namely Ilanbridge Judge Wright Crash and Ghetto Girl Crash was a smart lilly raced by Pat Dunne and was cut dawn iu a race at Churchill Downs as a twoyearold Mr Dunne succeeded in saving her for breeding purposes and she is now In the Mere Hill Stud of C W Moore near Lexington which breeder owns her sire imported McGee Hanbridge is in the stud of his owner William Gerst in Tennessee lie was a brilliant race horse and won a long string of races Hanbrldge is by Banastar winner of the Brtoklyn and Mctro olitan handicap and her other winner Judge Wright is a son of Snperimm an ¬ other Brooklyn Handicap winner AH the good per ¬ formers so far produced by Debacle are by different sires Her son Judge Wright was unbeaten as a twoyearold and had he stood training as a three yearold he might have won the Kentucky Derby of his year He is still owned by F J Pons and like his near relative Ilanbridge Is destined for stud service iu Tennessee TennesseePrice Price McKinney now owns Debacle but he will have to wait awhile for a foal of his own breeding from her as she was barren to the Futurity winner Sweep ibis season Her only other foal was a colt by the Futurity winner Yankee which died as a yearling and if he was alive now would be a four yearold Clarence H Maokey once owned Debacle but for some reason his manager Charles F Hill formed a dislike for her and in this way she became Sir MeCnlloughs property She was a good pur ¬ chase and has so far tilled every requirement as a stud matron matronGhetto Ghetto Girl is rather a dark Day TII color and a Btiimie Scotland type to a great extent She re solubles in no small degree that great race mare of the late seventies and early eighties Beatitude though of a bigger mold than was that performer She will go to Kentucky with an unbeaten rvcord and this prestige with her high conformation and fashionable breeding entitles her to consideration in any race In which she goes to the ost If sue eoud win either the IHJCby or the Oaks bet viefory woiihj be popular since her owners are newcomers iu rac ¬ ing and gentlemen of the most liberal ideas li all their undertakings Her success In any big rijep in Kentucky would bring back to mind tile lny whnn Dwycr Bros raced many famous lunsps as she will carry the colors borne to victory by Hindoo In the Kentucky Derby of 1SS1 P J Dwyer has passed on to this firm the historic red with blue sash sashWith With the exceptions of turrman Xelgler Messrs orrigau McKinuey will in the next year or two race the biggest stable owned by any Ohio racing establishment slnci the late Doe McLean who won the Tennessee Derby with Perclair and Jam ¬ boree and captured many other Iiig races with var ¬ ious other members of his powerful racing stable liefore his tragic end at the Oaklev track in 1Si
