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PROSPECTS OF KALITAN IN RACING Long in Retirement He Has Shown Encouraging Speed On Occasions This Year YearLast Last year when E R Bradley sent his colt Kalitaii to Pimlico tb run in the Preakness Stakes the venture was attended with a result that on the basis of comparison made out Kaiitan to be the peer of any threeyearold in racing then It is a matter of record that Kalitan won that race with ease Second to him was the colt Al M Dick subsequently purchased for a big price by i K Macomber and renamed Liberty Loan In the fullness of time this colt Liberty Loan started in the Latonia Derby Cudgel then in prime form was his most formidable opponent and was thought to be so nearly a certain winner that he went to the post a 3 to 5 favorite in the nintuels But Liberty Loan made an exhibition of him and win ¬ ning the big race in a canter by six lengths cov ¬ ered its mile and a half in 230 nearly throe seconds faster than Johrcns race of this year Both colts carried 122 pounds and Cudgel was second eight lengths in advance of Midway MidwayNow Now Cudgel was then and there a great race horse and has remained such to this day In fact nt weighcforage he is almost beyond doubt the Itest race horse now in the United States Then what kind of a colt must Liberty Loan have been on Latonia Derby day And going further back what a colt Kalitan must have been when he so easily defeated that same Liberty Loan in the Proukness Stakes It is not hard to conjecture that had both of these fine young horses remained in perfect form and racing condition Hourless and Omar Khayyam would have found in them oppo ¬ nents of the most dangerous description But for some undisclosed disability Kalitan had to be re ¬ tired from racing early in the year and Liberty Loan was put on the shelf because of being un ¬ wisely started in the Canadian Derby at Fort Erie in deep and holding mud and witli heavy penalties on his back backThe The racing of the present year is remarkable for the many problems attaching to brilliant race horses of last year Not only do they apply to Kalitan and Liberty Loan but to Omar Khayyam Westy Ilogan Tippity Witchet Rosie OGrady Papp Rickety Sun Briar and other noted ones as well those not as yet having appeared in the racing of the year or having proved lamentable failures when they did KALITAN RETAINS HIS SPEED SPEEDThere There may be hone in Kalitans case He has been given a few tentative races with some en couraging indications In these races he was in charge of Max Hirsch who has recently turned him over to Mr Bradleys regular trainer In respect to speed Kalitan showed little if any impairment but it seems obvious that the matter of nursing him along into condi ¬ tion to withstand the strain of a race over a dis ¬ tance worthy of a horse of his class is one of delicacy and difficulty In his first race this year at Pimlico May 4 he demonstrated retention of speed by leading into the stretch in a race won by Cudgel witli Johrcn second Then he ran rather poorly in the Pimlico Spring Handicap voii by Cudgel with Bondage second and Omar Khayyam third At Belmont Park June 14 he carried 130 pounds and showed considerable speed for n half mile but finished unplaced to Hand Grenade Trophy and Pplymellan His next race was a good one in respect to speed and weightcarrying This was at Aqueduct June 24 when at six and a half furlongs with 122 pounds up he defeated Old Koenig 124 pounds Corn Tassel 110 and eight more capital sprinters winning by a length in such excellent time as 118 This he folhnved lip by beating Star Master Gueland Tea Caddy Hank ODay and Cornelia III at threequarters in 111 with 140 pounds on his back and it began to appear that Kalitan was himself again But n shadow was cast on this rosy prospect in the sensational Carter Handicap July 4 in which Old Koenig with 122 pounds up defeated Roamer 130 Poly melian 12S and six more of which Kalitan carry ¬ ing 127 pounds dropped to the rear after being prominent for a half mile mileWhether Whether he has done well or ill since then is a matter of which knowledge is confined to the stable The answer may come in the Saratoga Handicap next Thursday in which he has been assigned the favorable impost for a horse of his natural en ¬ dowments of 119 pounds One thing is sure and that Is that his owner is deeply attached to him and would bo rejoiced exceedingly if lie should prove equal to carrying off such a highclass race
