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ESC0BA TAV0RED FOR CINCINNATI TROPHY. Viva America Expected to Furnish Plenty of Contention in the Valuable Lator.Ta Race Saturday. f abasia, Ky.. June 23. The championship of the west in the two ear "Ids division will be settled on next Saturday with the running of the Cm cina.iti Trophy at the Mitldale coarae. It has as added value of 94.090 and with 110 nominations at 9 each should - rloae to ,000 mt. There ; hardly any deeJM bat that Bseeba, Kenneth P. Alexaadera raa year old son of Broom slick Chiisfni.is star udl be the most fancied for the stake. 1 ause of Irs three stake victories in Kentucky this spring, the Idle Hour. Rash ford Mam.,- .,nd Harold Stake-.. He has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the turfniru in these parts thai ho can carry weight. the Cincinnati Tropin is at three qaartera and that will be in ivoobas favor, as with one exe| tiou. that being the HaroM stakes, he begaa afcnrly and rasir from behintl with a rush. . intention apbnly will be furiii-hed bv Aiva America, c. T. Worthiagtoaa McQee Piab Bos-filly, which has yet to tiste defeat and farther still, which has yet to he extended la order to win a race. Morning trial- of five-eighths in the vicinity of 1:01 are rasa 11 with the Worthingtoii filly and her early speed will carry her a long way. Viva America has been pronounced by expert tnrfmen as the most promising flUj turned out in the Blae Graaa state in a long while and. so mach does owner Worthingtoii think of her. that he his refaaed sen ral offers for her that ran into five figures. A neeting between these two young Bten is anxiously awaited by the patrons of racing here abouts. bat it was impossible to bring tin m together until they clash la the Cincinnati Trophy. Worthiagtoa says that be does not fear any two-year aid in ile- country with hi- filly and thai liis glad that Bscaba, .las. T. lark. Ocean Sweep and all of the other high-class two year olds are eligible and probable sinters in the Trophy, as it will giv ■ hi. a 1l»- much si nght 1 lian-e to prove that his ysusg liter is chssaaaaa. Jas. T. Clark Schorrs Chief Reliacce. The "lost cteii.;ve aaaafaaator to the hip two-year-old stakes this year was John W. .Schorr, wi.o u.imeii eleven for it. ten colts and one filly, including the Spring Trial Stakes winner. Jas. T. Clark. Last year the Schorr stable furnished the beates favorit.- for this race. Ilarrv Kellv. which was defeated by Major T. C. McDowells good filly America, aas. T. Clark will be the chief re- 1 Uaace of the Schorr rataUiahateat in the Trophy, but in all probability he will have a atablesMte i:i it also. The son of Dick Finaell -Paradise Won made a disappointing showing in th" Harold Stakes, in which he carried 123 pounds and. perhaps, the weight told on him. At any rate he is capable of doing much better and his owner fancies his chaacea in tin- Trophy, as much now as he did before the Harold Stakes was ran. K. It. Bradley, who named seven for the stakes, will most likely be represented by Broom Peddler, a son of Sweep Whisk Broom, which has shown high class form in his recent starts and which lias demonstrated that he is of stake caliber. This is another colt which works fire -eighths in 1:01 or better for the asking and lie likes to go on. as he comes from behind. Mr. Bradley is one of the most liberal nominators to all of the Kentucky stakes, but thus far this spring his only representative to win one of them wns Blind Baggage, which won the Memorial Handicap at Douglas Park. Cincinnati Trophy Day is regarded as next to Derby Day at Latonia and the railroads of Kentucky, sa well as a number of them in Ohio and Indiana, offer unusually low rates to excursionists in order that they may see the two-year-old championship decided. It is hardly likely that the Kast will be such a contender in this stake, but of the eastern stables which have two year olds nominated for it none of thr m to date can boast of a youngster, which on form, is capable of taking the measure of Kscoba. Viva America, Jas. T. Clark. Ocean Sweep, Gipsy Queen and others of such high class as will sport the silks of Kentucky owners in the big stake. Beautiful ,000 Trophy to Winner. In addition to first money, the winner will receive the beautiful Cincinnati Trophy, which is a silver service or plate, and which is donated by the Latonia Jockey Club. The trophy costs in the neighborhood of ,000 and to many of the owners the horses named for the stake, the monetary value of the purse is .1 side issue. The silver service or plate will be placed on exhibition the fore part of this week in Cincinnati. Only nine more days remain of the spring racing season in Kentucky and four stakes will be decided in that time at the Latonia track. The others besides the Trophy are the Valuation.. ,500 added, for two-year-olds at five and one-half furlongs; the Quickstep Handicap, ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, at threc-ijuarters, and the Independence Handicap. ,500 added, at one and three -sixteenth miles for three -year -olds and Continued on eighth page. ESCOBA FAVORED FOR CINCINNATI TROPHY. Continued tlvm first page. over. The Valuation will he run on Monday. June Si. the „»uickstep on Wednesday. June 2T, and the Independence on Wednesday, July 4, the closing day of tie- meeting. The Inst sprinters in the country will clash in the Quickstep including K. It. Itradleys j.lind Riggago. which has beatea everything that lie lias met on the Cluegrass circuit this spring at three-quaiters. This race fell to Kathleen last year and had a let vali f , Iff".. It dosed this year with sity-five nominations, which will bring its net value up to as high a figure as last year, if not higher. Once more this spring, on next Wednesday, the members of the fair sex will be the guests of the Eatonia Jockey Club, that day being set aside as Eadies Day. East Wednesday the Eatonia plant was taxed almost to capacity when the gates were thrown open free to the ladies and they took a keen interest in the proceedings. Qeaetal Mana ger John IE Hachmeister always combines Eadies Days with stake days, so that the women will be treated to something out of the ordinary while the guests of the racing association. Black Tony May Return to the Races. Trainer Cliff Hammen, who trains the E. It. Bradley horses, is fast bringing another cripple back to the races a sound horse and this is Black Toney, son of Ieter 1iin- -IJelgravia. This colt has not started in two years, as he went amiss soon after the running of the Canadian Derby, in which he finished unplaced am! for which he was the choice. It was feared tor a time that he was done for, as far as racing was concerned. He was turned out at the idp. Hour Farm and was not taken up until this spring and now he is working five-eighths in the vicinity of 1:03 and he goes about his work easily. He still has all of the phenomenal •peed which enabled him to run one and one-eighth miles in 1:."i0,., over the Eatonia track when a three -year old, a mark that still stands and which many high-class horses have shot at. The "halter brigade" has commenced operations with a vengeance at Eatonia and the new claiming rule, which provides that a horse must be claimed before the race, is working to satisfaction. Frequently there are two or more claims in, but owners do not mind losing their horses under the present conditions, as llie.v are well paid for them and they do not have to fork up any "dead money," as the runup money was called. The firms of Iearce and Henry and Fink and Dolling have been the most active in claiming horses and the latter combination lias also lost a few horses via the claiming route. Dr. H. M. Miller finally got his campaigner For Fair patched up and ready for a winning effort and he managed to win a race, even though he had to send him in with cheap horses to do it. It takes a long time to get For Fair ready, as he has gone amiss upon numerous occasions. If he was a sound haree he would be a high-class stake racer. He CaaM out of his recent winning race in good condition and Dr. Miller is hopeful that he will stand racing from now on. Jockey Kussell McDcrmott is riding for the first time on the Kentucky circuit this spring. He is with the Riverside Stable, which is owned by Howard Oots and T. Cook. He made his debut on the Uluegrass circuit in fine style by winning with Bolster, which paid odds of 50.30 to . Alma Louise, a two-year-old chestnut filly by Transvaal — Ballerina, which is owned by W. D. Bernhardt of New Orleans and for which he asked ,000 last winter, started at Latonia recently and her first start was disapi ointing to her stable connections. She may improve from this race, but she would have to show to much better advantage to confirm the many good things that were said about her speed previous to her coming to Kentucky.
