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OMAR KHAYYAM TO BE CONSIDERED When Question of Championship of Older Division Is Discussed Says His Owner W Viau Laurel Mil Septcmlier 27 If Colonel Matt Winn who specializes in specials and in champion ¬ ship special at that witness the Hourless and Omar Kliavyuiii championship special of last year at Lau ¬ rel Park succeeds in pulling off a special race IK Iween Koamer nd Sunny Slope or Koamer and Sun Itriar or a tinHe cornered match in which Sun SunBriar Briar Koamer ami S iv Slop may meet at weight weightfor for age or any other race of that sort before Omai1 Khayyam is readv for a bruising gallop of one mile and a quarter Wilfrid Viau the owner of Omiir Khayyam will demand the privilege of meeting the winner with his great Englishbred fouryearold fouryearoldAnd And meanwhile Mr Viau docs no quite under ¬ stand whv there should be talk of a race at Laurel to decide the championshiv of the older division that does not include Westy Hogan The Canadian turf ¬ man i willing and a little more to race Westy Hogan against any horse in the Iliiled States and at any distance at weight for age Westy Hogan is in tip top condition at Havre de Grace anil he will be going to Ijiurel Park toward the end of the cur ¬ rent week Mr Viau believes that Westy Hogan when he defeated his stable companion and some other long distance runners of distinction in last years renewal of the Bowie Cup at Pimlico and ran one mile and a half in 2314 proved his ability to maintain his speed over a long distance of ground Most horse folk agree with him He thinks also that when Westy Hogan forced Cudgel to gallop one mile and threesixteenths in l liI iI a new American record to iMat him in the Schenectady Handicap at Saratoga that he won the Hght to be counted in on anything like a championship contest that might lie run this year yearBut But Westy Hogan even if he did beat Omar Khayyam in last years renewal of the Bowie Cup is not considered by his owner to be as good a liorse as Omar Khayyam Moreover Mr Viau be ¬ lieves that in a few weeks Omar Khayyam will be in condition to meet the best horses in the land and beat them at any distance He does not bar Cudgel which beat his horse in the Pimlico Spring Handicap last Slav and which may come to the races again tJxis fall fallREPORTED REPORTED IN GOOD CONDITION CONDITIONOmar Omar Khayyam after his failure to belli Cudgel in tin 1IKiHiV MpjjiigJjndjKipiiiiHJi to the sur xrisc of li jjwitcr itlso to a vast gathering of MarylsmJers who Considered him invincible wont on to New1 York Vnd nm a hoikingly bad race in the Metropolitan Handicap After this he was put by fur a freshening up and he began to show his speed once more at Aqueduct in July But just about tlie time it looked as though he was going to tntin successfully for another brilliant campaign at Sara ¬ toga he spread a foot and had to be thrown out of training again Happily that trouble is all reme ¬ died and then is no liorse at Havre de Grace that is going better He has been getting threequarters in lir or thereabouts and miles in 141 and 141 141Mr Mr Viau who was here Sunday looking over his stable said that Omar Khayyam would be ready for the colors sometime during the first week of the Laurel Park meeting and that he would surely start in the Dixie Handicap HandicapWesty Westy Hogan will come to Laurel Park with Omar Kliayyjm and as already related he is ready Th other breadwinner of the Canadians establishment is George Starr which beat Mary Maud at one mile ami seventy yards the other day at Havre d Grace The only twoyearold Viau has in racing condition is the Star Shoot colt Due de Guiss which Joes not call for praise The star juveniles of the establishment Pibroch a Freilchbred son of Macdonald and The Tank an Englishbred giant by Fowlingpiece ait turned out on a farm near Ited Bank New Jersey
