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GOOD FIELD FOR BREEDERS FUTURITY Crack Band of Two-Year-Olds to Contest for Valuable Raco to Bo Run at Lexington. COVINGTON, Ky., August 23. The" impending renewal of the Breeders Futurity, the Kentucky Jockey Clubs greatest produce race -for two-year-olds, which will be run at Lexington in the course of the first of the fall meetings in the Blue Grass " state, will attract one of the best two-year-old fields that will have been seen under colors all season. The Breeders Futurity will have a value of between 0,000 and 5,000 and it will bo run over the so-called Futurity course of the old Kentucky Associations track, which is a little less than 200 feet short of three-quarters of a mile. Last seasons lenewal of the Breeders Futurity was won by B. J. Brannons gelding Colonel Livingston, whose only opponents were Col. Taylor, Ginger and St. Bernard. It was strictly a western affair as regards the ownership of the contesting youngsters. This years Futurity, in addition to attracting a bigger field, will have more the character of a contest between east and west, as had the renewal of 1917 when Papp, winner of the Belmont Park Futurity, racing under the silks of George W. Loft of New York, fell a victim to the speed of Kenneth D. Alexanders Broomstick colt, Escoba. Western ownership will be represented by colts and fillies appearing under the silks of former United States Senator Johnson N. Camden, president of the Kentucky Jockey Club and chairman of the Kentucky Racing Commission; Edyard R. Bradley, proprietor of the Idle Hour Stud; II. P. Ileadley, II. H. Hewitt, John Oliver Kcene and his brother, Hamilton Keenc, the former a member of the state racing commission; John E. Madden, master of Hamburg Place; Mclfrayer Moore; Maj. Thomas Clay McDowell, proprietor of the Ashland Stud; AT. F. Poison, Jerome B.-Kcspcss, John W. Schorr, W. V. Thravcs and C. T. Worthington. FINE EASTERN REPRESENTATION. The easterners who are planning to send youngsters west for the Breeders Futurity are such representative metropolitan horsemen as W. R. Coo Philip A. ClarK, Maj. Robert L. Gerry, Samuel C. Hildreth, Capt. Ral Parr of Baltimore,, J. H. Rosse-ter and James W. McClelland. Probably it la stretching things a bit to be calling Mr. Rosseler, who is now the leading producer of thoroughbreds in California, and James W. McClelland easterners. Mr. McClelland is a Kentuckian. But Mr. Rossetcr and Mr. McClelland do most of their racing on the other side of the Appalachian divide and the youngsters that will bear their silks in the Breeders Futurity are colts and fillies that have won such distinction as they may lay claim to at Saratoga and on the tracks about New York City. The "Hard Boots" at Saratoga entertain such a high opinion of the powers of the western owned youngsters High Command of the McDowell stable, Host Pal of the Bradley establishment, the brilliant Cotton Blossom of the Moore menage and the Poison crack, Peace Pennant a half-brother of War Pennant, he the winner of a half dozen stakes in the east last fall, they are convinced that the eastern candidates for the Breeders Futurity are going to find the sledding hard when they come this way in September. Cotton Blossom and High Command, especially, enjoy distinguished consideration among the horsemen who raced at Louisville and Latonia. Major McDowell considers High Command, a son of Tlic Manager and Ellen-a-Dale and a winner in dazzling time at Eafonla", about as good a colt as he ever bred. And in this opinion many of the shrewdest of the Kentucky horsemen concur. High Command is at Saratoga with the McDowell string now, but he has not had a chance to show the easterners his stuff because he has been suffering from shin bucking. High Command was not broken last fall, while he was. still a yearling, and he did not buck his shins until after he had won at Latonia. But he is fast getting over his soreness and he will return to Kentucky in grand condition. COTTON BLOSSOM HIGHLY CONSIDERED. Cotton Blossom, a superb daughter of Luke Mc-Luke and Crownlct, remained in Kentucky after the Latonia meeting, and by keeping her out here Mr. Moore probably deprived the easterners of the privilege of looking on one of the best fellies of the year. Nothing in the filly line that lias appeared in the east all season has shown more brilliant form than Cotton I.Iossom disclosed when she won the Cincinnati Trophy from By Golly and Marjorie Hynes. She had previously won a maiden race in impressive fashion. These two, probably, are the most formidable of the wests prospective Breeders Futurity candidates, but Peace Pennant is beginning to attract attention. Nevertheless it is conceded by westerners who have looked over the eastern-owned youngsters at Saratoga that Dominique, Shoot On, Feodor, Capt. Alcock, Blazes, Ralco, Hasten On and Hurry arc two-year-olds that are not to be trifled witii even by such exponents of speed as High Command and Cotton Blossom. Dominique, a light-footed son of Peter Quince and Berry Maid, is a colt that cost John E Madden only 00 at the Camden sale of 191S. Like most of the sons of Peter Quince, he developed early and after he had won a couple of races at Belmont Park in May in spreadeagle style Madden had no trouble whatever in persuading Samuel C. Hildreth that he was worth 7,500. Dominique was on the shelf for a long time as a result .of an attack of influenzh, but he is training satisfactorily again and Hildreth has. announced that he will come to Kentucky for the Futurity at Lexington. Feodor is a 0,000 brother of Hodge that is slowly coming into his own. He is owned by Major Gerry. BLAZES FORMIDABLE CANDIDATE. Blazes, a strapping bay colt by Wrack Blazing Star, is one of the high-class two-year-olds that 1 has developed at Saratoga, and he has proved that he is good on muddy tracks as well as on the : fastest going. Blazes has been top weight in a couple of Walter S. Vosbiirghs handicaps. In Kaleo, a son of Rock View and Black Mantilla, : I", lazes has a stablemate nearly, if not quite, as good as he is himself. Ralco lieat Wildair at Bel- mout Park. Wildair is credited witii being the fastest colt of the Whitney stable. Shoot On, a son of Star Shoot and Offensive, was late coming to hand, but lie showed at Saratoga on August 15, when ho outgamed Kallipolis, the winner of the Spring Juvenile Stakes at Pimlico, in a hard homestretch drive that he is a colt of good . class. Young Kenneth Karrick will bring Shoot On to Kentucky for Mr. Coe, who has become one of i the most considerable producers of thoroughbreds i west of the Mississippi River. Mr. Coes stud is domiciled in Wyoming. Hasten On, a sou of Great Britain and Crystal Maid and Hurry, a son of Bock View and I Moonet. are the crack Juvenile developments of the i powerful establishment of .lanies W. McClelland, i ahd they are conceded to be about as good as the best two-year-olds developed iu the east. Capt. , Alcock, a son of Ogden and Mallard, showed his : quality in the Sanford Memorial, one of Saratogas i best two-year-old stakes, to which he was an. added starter.
