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■ . - i • - • r - - s . s r g .. t d I. d - at t r .t r, ;. i i is e •e , ST. LEGER HANDICAP ANTICIPATIONS. Louisville. Ky.. September 11. — If there i- my nee that President Charles F. Grainger of the ■ Churchill Downs track is more partial to than the ■ Kentucky Derby, it is the St. I.eger Handicap, a l race revived at the Downs since the passing of the four-mile Kentucky Endurance stakes. This event. now a handicap for horses three-year-olds and over. . has an added value of SJ.imki ami i- D0« run al 1 the Downs over the lull cap course of two miles - and a quarter. It will he decided thi- year mi I the Closing dav of the romlUg fall meeting at t he Downs. Thursday, October 7. The St. I.eger Handi- rap is a namesake if the gnat English Doncaster r Sl. I.eger. The latter race was founded four years * before the lain MM Epsom Derby, being first run II in 177;. Tie first Kentucky St. I.eger was run as a race ■ for three year olds in 1s7o at tile first fall meeting ever held at ibis traek. Upon that occasion ii resulted in a brilliant contest between two horaefl tiiat have hit their impress on the American turf f and breeding world. King Alfonso won the first f St. Leger ami the reeseM-breaker Tea Broeek k finished s. |. The tir-t Si. I.eger and until iss;i was at two miles. Then it wa- run at a mile ,. and a quarter until rriacoutined in 1894. In l* 10 n it was revived and made a mile and a sixteenth. , II was then not run again until last year, when the ,, distance was the same a- this year, two miles and ,1 a quarter. The track record at i narchlll Downs for this s distance was scored by Hindoo, when that famous s rate horse won the Louisville Cup. then a spring ir ficul at lb,- Down* Hi- mark j»a- .: "■ . , . and ,i lie- dn.- he WOB III i:io- Was Mav 10" l»,-7 *" TtTt Is nil nl has never been beaten on a Kentucky track, .. though ; was tied al l.atonia November 6, 1904, I. bv Neversneh, he then being the same age that it Hindoo was iu l*s-. IjuL u« villi ctxrjei W liouuds, , w ii in ■ ft In it in m T is is b; by g di I. e. f. M ci the tl 7. 7. in in j" are while Hanovers sire had up 117 pounds, The race / which Hindoo made this record will ever be memorable as. upon that occasion, lie defeated the famous Checkmate, after the latter had previously beaten him in a stake race at the same meeting ] a desperate contest, at a distance, however, much shorter than the two mile and a quarter course" The American record for two miles and a quarter held bv Kthelbert and is ;;:t!i.-. and was ■cored him ai Brighten Beach August 4, 19W. Ihe I greatest race of late years that was run at this distance, with the exception of the- revival of the Latonia Cup, four years ago. was the Annual Champion Stakes al Shecpshead Bay, which was run continuously from 1!HM lo 1908 and won by such famous horses at David Carriek. Maid of Harlem. Major Dangerlield. IgaltO, Stalwart. Sysonby, Ac- , COOntant, Salvhlere and King James. Ih re are thirty two entries from which to pick field in the St. lger this year. The race i-BUM to bring to the neat at the Downs, on October I all the best ot the older division of horses now training here, and included in this collection several rack three- ear ohN that have raced ! brilliantly this year. w
