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GREAT RACERS IN THE LATONIA CUP. A. K. Macombers champion three-year-old Dodge is the first double winner of the Douglas Park and Latonia Autumn Inaugural Handicap races, and he also has the distinction of being a double winner of the Latonia and. American Derbys. His brilliant racing at the present time points to a Avonderful race for the Latonia Cup this fall, as trainer Walter 1.. Jennings says that if not asked to make such great dder performers as Fair Mac and Boots too much concession in weight, ho will send Dodge, as well as Star Hawk, to the post in that stake, to be run Saturday, October 28. Oscar Lewisohns great five-year-old P.oots, which at Laurel, Md., last Saturday scored a mile and a sixteenth in the Baltimore Handicap in the same time, 1:43, in which Dodge Avon the Autumn Inaugural at Latonia. both marks being track records, was bred at the Elmendorf Stud in Kentucky and exported to England as a yearling in 1912. His best races abroad were: At two years old he Avon the Kempton Park May Plate and the Seghill Juvenile Plate at Newcastle. As a three-year-old he won the Old Newton Cup, one mile and a half, and the Oadby Handicap, one mile and a half, at Leicester, and ran second to China Cook in the Liverpool Spring Cup. Boots Avas returned to this country" last year as a four-year-old, but Avas not raced here until this year. He lost his first race this year, but since has made a clean sweep of all his starts. Boots sire, Hessian, is a son of Watercress and Colonial, by Trenton. His dam, Fleurette, by Star Ruby, is a half-sister to the great mare Firenze, Avinner of forty-eight races and 12,580. Boots is a half-brother to eight Avinners.
