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JUST MISSED BUYING LE0NATUS "The death of George Morgan recalls to memory how close I came to getting Ix-omitus. great horse and first Latonia Derby winner. said the veteran trainer G. W. Cadwallader at Douglas Park one-day last week. "Morgan and Chiiin hid a stable of racers. One day H. O. Bernard, who becaaee a warm friend of mine, called on me and said: Buy-as many horses as you wish and I will pay for them. I told him I had as good liorses as any excepting Leomttus and Strathmore. By that I meant Loveler and a few more. Henry Miller was the owner of L-onatus. I called on him and asked him what he would take for Le-onritus. He told nolle would rather see me have the horse than any IK-rson he kn-w of. but that Morgan and Chinn had an option on the animal up to noon and that if they did not come and close the ileal at the time in question. Ltie—t— would Ik- mine. Naturally, I wished they would not come, but v. hen they hove in sight I knew my chane-es were gone ami that a good horse- was going to be iu the burns of Morgan and Chinn. "I then started after Strathmore. property of James A. Grinstead and was successful in jetting the horse, which by the way, injured himself in a race and, although he had three b-eS practically, he could make many of the best get up and hump."
