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YOUNG RACERS OF THE FUTURE DAYS High-Bred Coming Two-Year-Olds in Eugene Leighs Care at Oaklawn. In part for himself and in part for patrons. II. Eugene Leigh is housing arid exercising a big band of thoroughbreds at the Oaklawn track, Hot Springs. Ark. They are in the main youngsters purchased at last summers sales of yearlings and which will automatically become two-year-olds next Tuesday. Keyond the fact that, they are well bred, healthy, eating heartily and growing normally, nothing is known of what racing capacity may be enclosed in their symmetrical young bodies. When the time of active training arrives their schoolmasters in part will be the English-bred five-year-old gelding Stradivarius, by Neil Gow Dromdiah. and the useful three-year-old High Olympus, by Hastings Olym-pia, and the three-yeai-old filly High Vale, by Hastings Stind Vale. They are sufficiently speedy to ask their pupils to show their best when stretched out to the limit next spring in developing gallops. Few of them have stake engagements as yet, but there will be abundant opportunities to make entries for them before the racing season of 1918 arrives. One of them, Duke John, is one of the eligibles to the 0,000 Latonia Championship Stakes of 1919. Some of the youngsters of foreign origin were bought already named, and for others of domestic breeding, names have been recently claimed, the two classes forming the following band: Searchlight, ch. c, by Sweeper Gaslight. Rappahannock, b. c, by Sweeper Running Water. Trickster, b. c, by Irish Lad Artless. Conscription, b. f, by Sweeper Census. Lismore, b. f, by Klarney Lady Selina. Dispatch, ch. f, by Klarney or Sweeper Monroe Doctrine. Epsom May, b. f, by Durbar Mayflower. Klack Thong. 1. c, by Sweeper, Klarney or Irish Lad Ascot Kelle. Miss Cynthia, b. f, by Joe Carey Glencoe Maid. Krown Bee, br. f, by Toddiugton Adelaide Royer. Duke John, b. c, by Ivan the Terrible Lassie. Athene, b. or br. f, by Zeus Yuletree. Truant b. c, by Day Comet Pure Lily. Scotia, b. or br. f, by Zeus Dorothy K. Misericorde, b. f, by Assagai Bene. Stiletto, b. f, by Assagai Annie Lauretta. Anlace. b. f, by Assagai Ohiyesa. Poniard, b. f, by Assagai Niaxus. Adulation, b. c, by Ilaudit-r-Tardy. Creese, b. f, by Assagai Hawksflight. Lady at Arms, b. f. by Assagai Louisanne. Cobbler, ch. c, by Doctor Boots May Esterling. Pyramus, ch. c, by Peter Quince Kalkis. Kottom, ch. c, by Peter Quince Lass of Wheat-ley. Dione, b. f, by Assagai Bradawl. Earnest, b. c, by Handsel Santa Lucia. Cygnus, 1. c, by Star Shoot Copyist. 1 Javelin , , . 2 Armores f J Assagai Yankee Rose. 1 Athenian i 2 Pageaiit V b.c, by Peter Quince Baby Lamb 3 Roundel I It will lie observed that in the cases of the Peter Quince Baby I-imb colt and the Assagai Yankee Bose filly, a choice of names was submitted to Registrar Rowe, to provide for a contingency of one of the names having already been claimed. Names for the filly by Assagai Mountain Mist and by Assagai Gipsy Adams, remain to be selected and claimed. LEIGH COLORS BLUE WITH WHITE STRIPES. These young horses will be raced under the colors of II. E. Leigh and Co., blue with white stripes. The Leigh colors many years ago were familiar on all American tracks, but for the last decade or so were to be seen only on French courses. Their reappearance this year probably was for a permanent sojourn at home. Tlteiv is a decided tinge of aristocratic breeding involved in I he close up ancestry of these youngsters. Sweeper, the silv of several, is a sou of Broomstick Bavello II., and consequently a half-brother to the crack racer Frank Gill. He Continued on second page. YOUNG RACERS OF THE FUTURE DAYS Continued from first page. was himself a fine race horse and winner of the Two Thousand Guineas of 1912. His racing was all done abroad and. when a two-year-old, he won the Fifty-ninth Triennial Stakes at Ascot, England, and the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood. He was one of the best sons of Broomstick and should prove a highly successful sire. His dam. Ravello II., is a daughter of the Epsom Derby winner Sir Hugo. Besides Sweeper and Frank Gill, she was also the dam of the fast horse Sam Jackson, whicli won the Saratoga Cup of 1913. Irish Lad, the sire of Trickster, was one of the best American racers of his day and winner of 9,250. A gamer horse never stood on iron. His progeny have raced with distinction in France. His son Blarney, which is also represented in the list, was a great three-year-old in 1913 and winner at that age of big stakes of the collective value of 173,600 francs. His dam was the American mare Armenia, by Meddler. That same year the filly Banshee, by Irish Lad Frizette by Hamburg, won 110,355 francs. Irish Lad is a son of Candlemas and Candlemas was a brother of the Epsom Derby winner St. Blaise, The filly Epsom May boasts a distinguished father in Durbar, winner of the Epsom Derby of 1914, the last Derby run under its proper name and over the Epsom course. Durbar is toe young to have been represented in racing, but through his sire Rabelais, he is a grandson of St. Simon and St, Simon horses succeed in the stud the world over. Assagai, which is numerously represented, is a young English horse of high breeding, being a son of the Derby winner Spearmint, dam the St. Simon mare Charm. His breeding is that of a stayer and when a three-year-old he defeated Grave Greek, Lido and Dublin Bay, all proved stayers, at a mile and five-eighths in the Hampton Plate at Hurst Park in 1912. The first of his progeny will appear in racing in 1918.
