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McKINLEY OWNED BY C E DURNELL Light Furnished by London Reference Buchan the St legcr and The Panther The reference to McKinley In the matter below throws some light on the statement made In Chi ¬ cago about a month ago by Boots Dnrnell who was here with his wife a French actress playing an engagement at the Majestic Theater Darnell told Mr William A Plnkerton the famous de ¬ tective that he owned McKInley and that Mr W K Vanderbllt merely hod a lease of the running qualities of the son of Macdonald Mrs Despard Durnell also declared at the time that McKinley was a certainty for the Epsom Derby and on the Strength of his declaration about the colts great quality several wagers were cabled to London about the chances of McKinley over the big Epsom race He was kept in France and of course there was no action over the wagers After that probably through bad racing luck McKinley was beaten in the French Derby won by Tchad his stable com ¬ panion McKinley was cut up in the Frencli Derby race and did not start in the Grand Prize of Paris won by Galloper Light Just now the colt is laid up for repairs Darnells statement about the ownership was probably true It is likely to be U joint ownership however shared by C E Durnell and Mr Marghiloman They were associated in racing when Durnell was training for the king of Roumania and other owners with headquarters at Bucharest BucharestRecent Recent impressions writes the Sportsmans Special Commissioner W Allison leads to the idea that Buchan will win the St Legcr and as he lia8 always beaten Dominion there BQCms nothing much to stand In his way unless indeed The Panther should come back which is I suppose improbable This contingency is however not im possible though between two schools of advisers George Manser may find himself In an unenviable quandary Some say the colt did too much work between the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby and some that he did too little Others declare that he was too frequently disturbed by visitors Anyhow having regard to the fact that he won the Two Thousand Guineas in most honest style without being specially trained I cannot but think that his best chance is to have an easy time until within ten days of the St Ecger and then only two or three good gallops Naturally however this is only a matter of surmise and as likely as not The Panther will never again give his true running no matter how he is trained His old opponent Galloper Light has trained on more happily and a 9 ble was received from Buenos Aires this week inquiring if the son of Sunstar could be bought I take it however that Galloper Light will go nowhere except to the Soutbcourt Stud when his racing career is ended He iinay have been lucky not to encounter McKinley for the Grand IMs but lip was evidently niuch too good for the re t of the French threeyearplds A valued French corre ¬ spondent questions the accuracy of my statement that Mrs Despard the dam of McKinIoy was at one time bought by Durnell for sir Marghiloman JJie Roumanian owner but there is pp doubt about the fact and the gentleman from whom 3Ir Yan lorbilt bought the mare and foal had only been keeping her for the Roumanians until such time as he was obliged to sell tp pay expenses There jjave been many similar cases during the war though I do not know of one in which so good a cplt as McKinley changed hands Mr Marghilo mans purchase or intended purchase of Mrs Des ¬ pard was mode because he owned the unbeatenZou de Ze her first foal foalThe The English critics are still all at sea over The Panjther and in the Sportsman recently Vigilant writes of the colt in this way Here I may re ¬ mark that tjie reports concerning The Panther arc the reverse of reassuring Tlje glorificiitiqn which followed the Two Thousand Guineas has been ef ¬ fectually jiut an end to and the latest report is that he 1143 given trouble in the stable leading to tho fear that his temper may go wrong
