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WHITNEY TO RETIRE GREAT PENNANT Bad Underpinning Stops Active Racing Career of Winner of 1913 Futurity Goes to Brookdalc. Louisville. Ky., December 21. A report has reached here that Pennant, Harry Payne Whitneys great race horse, will soon be retired to the Brook-dale Farm Stud in Kentucky. The information is said to have been given out by James Rowe, trainer for the Whitney stable. Pennant, unbeaten as a two and three-year-old, has had a precarious time since because of a bad leg which made it difficult to get him to the races. In many respects his career has been similar to that of Old Rosebud, the great rival of Pennant when both were two-year-olds in 1913, in which year they did not have an opixirtunity to decide which was the better. Both fell lame early in their three-year-old campaign, but by the exercise of great patience, they were brought back to the turf, Old Rosebud meeting with such success that he obtained the leadership of the handicap division in the season just ended. Pennants performances, though not so remarkable since his return to racing, stamps him as one of the best thoroughbreds of recent years. After a late start as a two-year-old, he gained the crown of his division by winning the Futurity. The following year he held up only long enough to win a couple of races at Belmont Park, i
