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THIRTY LEADING AMERICAN 0 WNERS IN THE RACING OF THE PRESENT YEAR TO DATE When the table of winning owners of 1918 was last published the stable of Commander J K L Koss was far in advance of all competitors But since then a decided change has taken place For a time the Koss horses have been absent from racing while being freshened and prepared for the big campaign at Saratoga In the meantime the A K 3Iacomber horses have made such progress that their owner is now nearly abreast with Koss in stable earnings being only 530 behind the leader his good throcyoarold War Cloud figuring as his principal winner II P Whitney is a good third to the two leaders and if Itosie OGrady and a few twoyearolds held in reserve make good in some of the big Saratoga stake races may be found giving the two present leaders a strenuous battle for lirstplace honors In his stable is a Bayardo colt named Bayard concerning whose excellence rumor was busy at one time Whether lie was found wanting or whether his training revealed him to bo a real star is a stable secret and the Whitney stable knows how to keep its secrets Among strictly western owners Williams Bros have fared l ost and are next to Whitney in stable returns Avith considerably more to their credit than they won in all of last year E It Bradley comes fifth and is another western owner to whom Datne Fortune has turned a smil ¬ ing face this year The five leaders have each and all won 30000 or more but no other owner has as yet gathered so much However it is quite manifest that several are close to the gathering of more than that sum The stable accounts of our thirty leading owners are now Leading Winner Winnerin Leading Winner Owner OwnerJ in 1917 in 1918 J K L Itoss Priscilla 3Iullens Cudgel A K 3Iacoinl cr Sunbounet War Cloud II P Whitney Itosie OGrady Johren Williams Bros Sedan Sun God E It Bradley Blind Baggage Batter Cake W E Applegate Jack Hare Jr Jack Hare Jr E B 3IcLcau Leochares Leochares J E Widener Naturalist Trompe La 3Iort Brighton Stable Tippity Witchct Lord Brighton J Livingston Colonel Veunie 3Ia jor Parke W It Coo Town Hall Terentia K Spence Hodge Bigtodo 15 J Braunon Squeeler Colonel Livingston W S Kilmer Sun Briar Exterminator Oueck Stable Elfin Queen Quincy Stable Quincy Stable Compadro G D Widener Lanius Rose dOr J IS Goodman KInncy Brib a Voter It K Carman CarmanA Startling IT Startling A Miller Itoamor Roamer W F Poison Bac Billy Kelly G 31 Hendrie Itauchcr Rancher It T Wilson Straight Forward Hannibal J Arthur Edith Bauuiann Bondage Beverwyck Stablo StabloP Fizer Old Koenig P A Clark Battle Duiiboyne C Buxton Sasiu Sushi A L Kirby Dr Tuck Violet Bonnie J F Sweeney Hauberk Hauberk J Umeusetter Billy Juo J J Murdock
