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PROBABLE LATONIA CUP CONTESTANTS. Speedy and Staying Horses from Abroad to Measure Strides with American-Bred Stars. Latonia, Ky., October 21. The Latonia Cup, at two miles and a quarter, has the distinction this year of being the first American cup race in which the fields will be composed of stars of this country and foreign lands. This race, which is the chief feature stake of the present autumn meeting, has been set to be rim on the afternoon of Saturday, October 2S, the date which marks the wind up of racing in Kentucky in 1910. There has not been in many years a prospective field of starters in a long-distance race that, on paper, appeared more attractive than the Latonia Cup does this fall. No less than four of the most probable starters have all won good races in this country, as well as abroad, these being Star Hawk, Fair Mac, Boots and Killanna. Star Hawk was a double stake winner in England a3 a two-year-old in 1915 and in this country this vear has to his credit the Lawrence Realization Stakes and the Louisville Cup. while he also ran second to George Smith in the Kentucky Derby last spring, being only beaten a head after experiencing all the bad luck in the running of that race. To date this season Star Hawk has earned ,370. Star Hawks sire, Sunstar, won the Two Thousand Guineas and the Epsom Derby in 1911. Fair Mac won in Ireland in three years before his importation to this country last June and recently in Canada captured the Ontario Jockey Club Cup at two miles and a quarter. He is from the popular Gallinule line, which the famous mare Pretty Polly made so fashionable. Boots was a stake winner in England and, coming back to this country, has made a remarkable record this year. In his last six starts he has won five good races and earned so far this year a total of 2,2S0. AVhile bred in America, having been foaled at the Elmendorf Stud of the late J. B. Haggin in Kentucky, his sire Hessian is entirely of imported blood and his dam Little Flower is by Star Ruby. The latter won tho Thornton Stakes at Bay District, San Francisco, in 1S9G, running four miles in 7:23. Star Ruby is a half-brother to the remarkable mare Sceptre, which won the One Thousand Guineas, Two Thousand Guineas, Oaks and St. Leger and earned during her turf career a total of 03,903, a record for turf performers of her sex. . Killanna won some good races abroad and in Kentucky this fall has won at a mile and an eighth in 1:51 and ran third in the Louisville Cup, two miles, and second in the Kentucky St. Leger, two miles and a quarter. Both Boots and Star Hawk are owned by the California turfman A. K. Macomber, while the eastern turfman Grant Hugh Browne owns Fair Mac. and Killanna belong to the Kentucky turfman E. R. Bradley. . . Some other high-class horses of M American breeding will be almost sure to go to the post in this event the coming Saturday. Among these worthy of special mention are Hodge, Embroidery, Pif Jr. and Rancher. ,. , Hodge has, during his career on the turf, won the Louisville Cup at two miles, the Clark Handl- Continued on second page. PROBABLE LATONIA CUP CONTESTANTS. Continued from first page. cap twice and ran second in the record Kentucky Derby. Avon by Old Rosebud. In a recent race at Latonia he ran a mile and an eighth in 1:51, and he lias won a total of thirty-four races and 6,SS0 in the four years lie lias raced. He is a son of Ivan the Terrible, by Pirate of Penzance, and comes on the dams side from the family of the great Freeland, which, in the colors of Edward Corrigan, raced so brilliantly in the early days of racing at the Latonia course. Hodge is jointly owned by the Texas turfman W. J. Weber and the Missouri horseman Kay Spence. Embroidery won at the recent Churchill Downs meeting the Kentucky St. Leger at two miles and a quarter and ran second in the Louisville Cup at two miles to Star Hawk. A good race she won at Lexington this fall was at a mile and a quarter in .2:03;-.. She is a daughter of Celt, that won the Brookivn Handicap as a three-year-old in 190S, and ran third in the same race, when won by King James in the following year. Embroidery is owned bv the Virginia turfman A. 15. Hancock, who. at the present time, has a breeding stud located in Kentucky. Pif Jr. has always been a horse that, at a a times, runs races good enough to beat almost any horse. He seems now to race like a stayer and he may be the dark horse in the big race this fall. He is by Waterbov, that won the Brighton and Saratoga Handicaps in 1903, while his dam Anna Bain, a stake winner, is a daughter of the famous horse Kingston, which won on the turf eighty-nine races and S142.502. Pif Jr. belongs to the popular Lexington racing stable of It. L. Baker and Co. Rancher has done much brilliant racing in the last two years. He has carried big weight and covered a long distance of ground like an old-time four-miler. Last year he won the Ontario Jockey Club Cup at two miles and a quarter, and ran third to Fair Mac and Pif Jr. in the same race tins fall. On the opening day at Latonia he ran a close second to the great three-year-old Dodge, which has been in apparently invincible form in Kentucky this fall. Rancher is a son of Galveston and his dam Sweet Lavender, a stake winner, is by Goldfinch. The latter is a half-brother to Common, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and St. Logcr. Rancher is owned by the popular Canadian turfman George M. Hendrie. As usual the big race this year has, in addition to its money value, a trophy donated to it by the Latonia Jockey Club, which goes to the owner of the lucky winner. This trophy has been especially designed to the order of manager John Hachmeister, who has spared no expense in giving this year .a trophy in solid silver that is in keeping with the money value of the stake. This trophy will be on exhibition this week in a Fourth street store window, with some pictures of several of the noted horses that will race for the rich prize. A big day at Latonia the coming week will be the ever popular Ladles Day, which bus been set by manager John Hachmeister for the coming Wednesday, October 25. On this afternoon, all ladles ac companied by escorts, will be admitted to the grounds and grandstand of the course free. The feature race for this day is the Queen City purse for two-year-olds at a mile. On Tuesday, before the races begin at the Latonia track, will be held the regular annual yearling sale, which always draws to the course a majority of the prominent breeders of Kentucky and other states and, in the last few years, this day has become one of the most popular occasions of the entire fall racing season in Kentucky. There is one thing, however, that would greatly please all horsemen and that is a meeting of the Kentucky Racing Commission, to assign dates for the spring and summer meetings in this state for 1917. The race track managements want to know this as well and, in fact, manager Hachmeister only recently addressed a strong letter on this subject to the racing commission. Everyone interested in the turf is anxious to know on what days next spring such races as the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Handicap and Latonia Derby will be run. It is not possible for the tracks to announce the date of the running of these popular races until the commission decides what dates will be granted the tracks for their spring and summer meetings.
