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"RED LETTER DAY" IN TURF HISTORY Dato of .Latonia Championship Stakes to Bo Such According to Manager M. J. Winn. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 30 With the Latonia autumn race meeting less than one month off, and the Saratoga racing season at an end, it is expected that- the most prominent of the candidates for the 0,000 Latonia Championship Stakes will soon be licaded westward. Trainers still have plenty of time in which to fit their charges for such a grueling struggle as this- race promises to be, and they will be aided considerably by having numerous opportunities to run them in long-distance stakes and overnight handicaps at Lexington and the fore part of the Latonia meeting. . General manager Matt J. Winn of the Kentucky Jockey Club, who is on a business visit here, said that he has not as yet selected a definite dato for the running of the rich event, as he is waiting to see .the dates for the worlds series baseball games, part of which no doubt will be played in Cincinnati, before he settles on a day for the big stake. October 11 may be the date agreed upon if it avoids conflicting with the big baseball scries, and it would no doubt prove a .popular one, as it would give thousands of baseball fans who will travel from all parts of the country to see the worlds championship games an opportunity to witness the initial running of Americas richest turf event. Judging from the number of inquiries received by the Kentucky Jockey Club regarding the Championship Stakes, there is not a state in the Union that will not bo represented at Latonia on October 11. Coming as it docs in the fall of the year, when three-year-olds should be at their best to go over the route of one and three-quarters miles, and witli a prize of 0,000 attached to it, there is little wonder that the Latonia Championship Stakes has created nation-wide comment and that lovers of the thoroughbred will travel thousands of miles to see it run. . LARGEST PURSES EVER HUNG UP. "I am determined to make the day the rich race is run a red letter day in turf history," said .manager Winn, "and not only will the 0,000 Latonia Championship Stakes have its first running, but I have instructed racing secretary Will Shelley to surround that event with a program calculated to bring every high-class race horse at the track into action. The total of purse money run for on that day will far exceed anything of its kind in the history of American racing, and Ave will make the entire turf world sit up and take notice. -What the Kentucky Derby is to the people of Louisville each year in the spring, so will the Latonia Championship Stakes be to the people of Cincinnati and vicinity in the autumn, and the thousands of visitors who come from afar to see the latter race run will realize the esteem in which the sport of kings is held in this section." From New York comes the report that trainer Jack Goldsborough is preparing The Young Cavalier for the rich Latonia stake, and this is welcome news to the turfites hereabouts, as Goldsboraugh is popular in this section, due to his numerous visits here witli the Andrew Miller horses. He sent ids old campaigner Roamer after the Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park several times, and although he failed to get the big portion of the purse even once, Goldsborough kept right after it with him like a true sportsman. The Young Cavalier- is the property of J. G. Ox-nard,. and he is a bay son of King James Cadcau. Ho was the only horse nominated by Oxnard, who hails from Garden City, L. I., and for a while it looked as though he Was not going to develop into a good enough three-year-old to be sent after the rich prize. Trainer Goldsborough is a shifty man with a horse, however, and his patience has been rewarded by having the colt show signs of regaining his best form. Mr. Miller nominated eight of his own horses to the Championship Stakes, but he has not one eligible left: now to carry his colors in it. One by one they failed to live up to expectations, and finally all were withdrawn. Determined that he should send a horse to the post in it, Goldsborough redoubled his efforts with The Youns Cavalier, and it looks as though success has come his way. REST HAS BENEFITED ETERNAL. A noted absentee from racing at Saratoga was Eternal, and he was given a rest that should do him a world of good. The son of Sweep Hazel Burke had a hard spring and early summer of it, always meeting the highest grade of horses, not only of his own age, but older as well, and he raced over all kinds of tracks and in any kind of going. He is sure to have a large following in the Latonia Championship Stakes if the track be fast on the day the big event is run, as owner James W. McClelland and trainer Kim Patterson are extremely popular in this section, and they can be depended upon to have him as lit as hands can make him. Owners and trainers are beginning even this early to scout around for the best jockeys available. A good and well-timed ride is going to count a whole lot in this stake, and it is a certainty that the riders of the old school who are left and who are excellent judges of pace will be much in demand. The weights to be carried 122 pounds for colts and geldings and 119 for fillies will g.ive all of the belter class of jockeys a chance to ride without having to reduce, and the best pigskin artists in the country are sure to be seen in action. Jockey John Loftus, who is riding better this year than ever before, will in all probability have the leg on War Pennant, the representative of Commander J. K. L. Ross. It is in such a race as tltis that Lof tus shines, as he has always been noted as a judge of pacewith fewequals. -He can rate a horse along in front or come from behind as well, and when it comes to a rousing finish he can hold his own with the best of them. Two other veteran riders who will no doubt ride are "Bill" Knapp and Andy Schuttingcr. Knapp lias been riding witli marked success this year for Harry Payne Whitney, and it is more than likely that he will come along with Vindox to pilot him in the big stake. Schuttinger lias ridden Eternal in all of his starts and it is hardly likely that McClelland would change riders this late in the year. Thus it can be seen that the race will resolve itself into a battle of riders as well as horses, which will add more interest to it than ever, Also it is apparent that the east will be called upon to furnish its star jockeys as well as thoroughbreds, and at the present time it looks as, though the Kcntuckians are going to have a hard row to hoe if they expect to play much of a part in the decision of this stake from any angle other than having bred the winner. OLD AMERICAN RECORD IN DANGER. To the winner of tfie Latonia Championship Stakes will in all likelihood fall the honor of setting a new American turf record for oie i and three-quarter miles. The present mark, 2:57, Iwas made at Morris Park, X. Y., by Major Daingerfield, as a four-year-old, with 120 pounds up. He set it on October 3, 1903, and the main reason that it has stood for sixteen years is that the distance is one seldom raced over, especially by stake ami handicap horses. A high-class thrcc-year-old should have no "trouble running this fast judging from the way they have been going a mile in 1:3S or better all summer, and witli .plenty of weight aboard at that. This week will mark the return of the last of the westerners who went to Saratoga to try their luck against their eastern rivals, and quite a few of the stables will stop off here to rest their horses until the local meeting opens. This will not include many stake horses, however, as those which are entered iu the Lexington Cup Handicap, at one and ether-half miles; and-"the eligiblcs for the rich Breeders Futurity will lie sent to Lexington to fill their engagements. Several of the entries in the Latonia Championship Stakes were nominated for the Lexington Cup Handicap, and the latter race will give the racegoers in this section a good lino on their ability over a loug route of ground.
