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WAR SPIRITS LATONIA CHAMPIONSHIP CHANCE Beautifully Bred for Both Speed and Stamina, Vulcain s Son Is Accounted as a Contender for the Big Event By EXILE Rock Sand blood is on top these days. The offspring of his daughters have placed him first as winning brood mare sire; he himself is the sire of the Ebor Handicap Winner, Race Rock, and his sons Rochester and Rock Flint in England and Rock Flint, Rock View and Vulcain are all of them sires of good winners in this country. In estimating chances it is well to pay heed to that indefinable something called luck, and in this A. D. 1919 the luck of the Rock Sands is certainly in the ascendant. War Spirit, a Championship eligible, and an acquisition of the Fayette County turfman W. V. Thraves, has recent winning form to recommend him, and is reckoned by others, a.3 well as his owner, to hold a more than good chance of success. Vulcain himself did all of his racing in La Belle France, where he proved conclusively that neither weight nor distance had any terrors for him, as his victories in the Prix Noailles, 07,000 francs, one and one-half miles; Prix" Miss Gladiator, 40,000 francs, one and three-eighths miles, and Prix Reist, one mile and seven-eighths, all under heavy imposts, go a long way to prove. Rock Sand was, of course, the crack race horse of his day and time in England, and Lady of the Vale, dam of Vulcain, a daughter of the St. Leger winner Rayon dOr, is a member of a family noted for .the excellence of its members as race horses, but as yet no sire of extra merit has come from the Philo by Mariner branch of the Layton Barb mare family. Thirty-third, dam of War Spirit, could win herself, and is the dam of those two honest and capable race horses Buckhorn and Midway, either of which as three-year-olds would have given the winner of the big race the stiffest sort of an argument for first honors. The get of Sir Dixon, as good a horse, I am .told, as the Dwyers .ever had, stay well. His son, Kilmarnock, won the Alexandra three-mile Plate and Prix du Conseil Municipal some few years back. Running Water was a tower of strengtli over a long-distance of ground,. Blues won the Saratoga Cup, so that no lack of staying power can come from the introduction of the Sir Dixon Voltigeur cross. High Degree is by the Futurity winner His Highness. Next in line comes Nettie, by Neptune, a really well-bred son of the best of that great stayer and weight carrier, the Ascot Gold Cup winner Mortemer, which on the day of his Ascot Cup victory was reckoned to be by no less an authority than Admiral Rous seven pounds the best horse in England. It is from such breeding as this that the long-distance runners must come. Besides the Blacklock line is a direct ontcross for the Stockwell strain of Rock Sand; also the Voltigeur of Billet is well returned to the Voltigeur of St. Simon. I am therefore quite prepared to see War Spirit give a good account of himself on Championship day. Springfield 12 j ..Albans . ......... .2 E r Sainfoin ....... 2 j r Rock Sand.. 4 I chestnut. 1887 j Sanda J Wenlock 4 E brown. ,., mnn 1000 1 . Sandal 2 E u 0aIop5n 3 E s S .1 Roquebrune 4 J I St. Angela 11 E f a.-t , . . .-St., Marguerite J:Hennitl.........,-5 Ei -kp - f . T-r----Devotibn . . . . 4E S . . Vin, ,vnr I Flageolet ...... C Plutus 15 E . S f Rayon d0r -3 J 1 La Favorite 0 E 2 La,dy, of the chestnut, 1870 j raucarja .. J Ambrose ...10 E S I ale, . .. Pocahontas 3 H bay, 1897: The 111 Used.. 18 i Breadalbane 10 E ; t l Lady Violet 4 - I Ellermire 18 E pj I Lady Rosebery . . . i Kingfisher 12 H to 2 I Lady Blessington 4 E Sb , nniof o Voltigeur ...... !2 i Voltaire 12 E 2 . r n B,Uet 2J 1 Martha Lynn 2 E .2 , Sir Dixon:.. "4 " . bay, 1805 j Calcutta J Flatcatcher . 3 E 2., f brown. 18S5 . . Miss Martin 2 E g Leamington ...14 J Faugli-a-Ballagh 11 E g S . Jaconet 4 J I fDaughter of Pantaloon. H . . I Maggie 15. B J Australian 11 M I. "! I Madeline 4 H at , rrie ti!i 11 I Tbe 111 Used. .18 j Breadalbane ....10 E Si r nis Highness... 11 I Ellermire 18 E g bay 1889 "Princess J King Tom 3 E B I DeRree .. m 10 J Mrs. Lincoin n E chestnut, r189G Neptune .......27 J Mortemer 1 II I Nettie 10 J Highland Lassie 27 E I Alma H. J tKing Alfonso E ., ;. Ultima 10 H Imported. No famijy number.
