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GREAT YEAR IN NEW YORK Over Million Dollars Distributed Among Winning Owners Horsemen Enthusiastic Over S C CHildreths Hildreths Recently Acquired AcquiredTracery Tracery Colt Cirrus in Xew York State for the year 1918 is over Tlie largest attend ¬ ance in tlie history of the Empire City course jour ¬ neyed to Ydiikers Saturday to say adieu to the tlior oiiirlilircil until next spring It was a fitting climax to tin greatest racing year enjoyed by the metro ¬ politan racing associations since 10 It also markid the first time in ten years that tin stake tiil purse distribution of the various Xew York tracks reached ovor 1000000 During the spring slimmer and fall racing then were STi7 races de iiiicd in the Empire State and i total of 1155299 distributed in stakes am purses making a splendid daily average of 8143 8143Witli Witli the conclusion of the Empire City meeting ovrners intending to race in Maryland shipped their liorses to Lnurel and Pimlioo the stables of A K Macomber S C Hiidreth F M Taylor J Fitz jjiiniiions T J Ilftilcy Andrew Miller ami K E Aillins arriving ther yesterday yesterdayOiji Oiji stable that will In watched with more than usnil interest is that f Samuel C Ilildrcth which lias Ixeii considerably strengthened during the past liii days or so His recent acquisition of Cirrus Out the Way iid Lord Brighton not to say any ¬ thing of Purchase Iwiight some time ago has made the Hiidreth string quite formidable Horsemen in general say that Hiidreth picked up a star in Cirrus bought from II 1 Whitney for the reported lirice of 25000 25000Cirrus Cirrus is a Ixautiful bay colt with black M intK stands alioiit fifteen bauds and an inch of symmetrical and substantial conformation Trainer Tjiomas 4 Healcy as kexn a judge of a horse as any man in this country says of him himI I believe he is a bargain He is the best look ¬ ing horse in training and I will be mistaken if he does not make the best threeyearold next year yearWELL WELL BRED IS CIRRUS CIRRUSTo To this Thomas Wolch added He is one of tlie bestbred as well as the bestlooking twoyear olds in the country His sire was Maj August Belmonts great horsu Tracery which is conceded to be the best horse seen in England in many years if not the horse of a century I trained his dam Morningside for Mr Whitney She was by Med ¬ dler Sunnyside by Mortemer Morningside was one of a collection of selected mares which Mr Whitney sent to England to be bred to the most highly prized stallions over there Jack Joyner who had charge of the mares selected Tracery as a mate for Morningside Tracerys service fee at tile time three years ago was 2000 An offer of 200000 for Tracery was declined by Major Bel inont inontFrank Frank Xolan owner of the Beverwyck Stable has shipped bis horses in training to Saratoga where they will join Mr Nolans other thoroughbreds iwcniytwo in number which are quartered at the Nolan Slock Farm near Saratoga Springs Among these horses which have been at the Spa since the close of racing there is the big sprinter Old Koenig It had been feared that this splendid horse had broken down in his last race but lie seems to have doniplelcly recovered and now he is reported to In going sound as ever everHoward Howard Ools will ship his stable to Lexington as soon as cars can be secured
