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THREE-YEAR-OLD MONEY WINNERS SIR BARTON THE LEADER WITH THE GREATEST SUM WON IN AMERICAN RACING SINCE 1907, WITH MAD HATTER SECOND AND PURCHASE THIRD IN THE LIST OE THIRTY BEST WINNERS IN 1919 The best three-year-olds of 1919 were noble race horses, better than in any KCCBl years. Sir Barton Bad Purchase were of high lass, exceedingly fast, great weight carriers anil gifted with bulldog gametics-. Mr Barton won more money than any horse of tiie year of any age. Had Hatter was second to him in that respect, because of being the winner of the richest race ,,f the North American turf. Purchase was not aide to race for the most valuable -taki - for horses of his age and so did Weil in ranking third. It is worth noting that, while each of this.. |uu young horses had to submit to defeat on oc casions. none of them was ever unplaced last venr. something that annot he said of any one of the other three-year olds in the list of thirty beat money winners, not one of which was a weakling in racing, according to its class. Twenty -one of thi- list are colts or gelding- and. aside from the three leaders. Billy Kelly. Be Frank. Hannibal, Thunderclap. Audacious. Eternal, I nder Fire. Sway and Seiming- Park were racer* of a rare degree of excellence. While not less can be said of the lillies Milkmaid. Vexatious, Ophelia. Ormonda and Lillian Shaw, of which Ophelia died after making I great impression in the autumn b.v winning six of her last seven race-, being beaten a neck by BUppeij Klin in her one failure while carrying IB! neaaxbj to his ill. Fifteen of the three-year-olds won 8,808 or more, and the records ,,f the entire thirty were as follows: Horse. Col. and Sex. Pedigree. Owner. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Flip. Won. Sir Barton eh. e. Star Shoot i.ady Merlins .1. K. K. Hoss...K K 3 2 0 ,250 Mad Hatter b. c. Fair Play — Madcap S. C. Hildreth... 7 4 2 10 54,981 Purchase eh. c. Orinondale— Ik rryola S. C. Hildreth. .. 1 1 9 2 11 tl 38,710 Vexatious b. f. Peter Pan -Contrary II. P. Whitney.. 1 J 1 II 1 J7 !»:il Be Frank b. g. Sir John Johnson — Frankness ...C. M. Uarrison. .14 3 :i 3 3 27.313 Billy Kelly h. g. Dick Welles Olena I. K. K. Boss... lit • 7 2 1 28,5a Hannibal eh. c, Olambala— Mexc.ana U. T. Wilson. . . . 10 B 0 3 2 19.291 Milkmaid b. f. Peep oliay— Nell Olin J. K. K. Boss. .14 S 2 2 2 18.087 Thunderclap blk. g. Vulcan Bandana S. C. Hildreth. . .10 7 4 5 :i 16,981 Incler Fire . . ..b. •, Swynford — Startling I*. Illume 2.". lfl 7 :; « 12H27 Stoc!r*ell ch. c Ballot .ramcr. 4. K. Hawkins. .. 11 t 4 1 1 11,733 Audacious ch. «-. st:" Shoot Bold Girl M. K. Bchwarta..lg 7 1 ." J 11.."i77 OpheBu b. f. Senseless- Client Azalea Mrs. .1. K. Davis. 22 s r, r, 4 1 |..-, »S I£f r;ilo b. f. Sweep — Lady Strathmore Galhtber Bros. ..17 4 : : 7 10.17.-, Omond ch. c, Lomono— Gateshead M. Qniaa 25 "1 • ."• !» 18.158 Eternal".*.!*..! br. c Sweep— Haael Burke .1. W. McClelland 7 2 : o 2 it. 700 Bway .......... .b. g. Vulctin-Huby Bight c. W. Clark 13 •; 4 2 :s !».3i0 Polka Dot ch. f. Celt— NetWork P. A. Clark 14 1 O 4 !» !l 210 Ormonda ill. f. Supermun — Princess Ormonde . . . W. A. Shea lu 7 3 0 ." s.7i!l Sennings Park ch. e, •lim Gaaney— Irish Queen K. Waterbury ...11 Q 1 J : 82J25 Bapid Day ..... ch. g. ltapid Water Sweet Day I. F. Schorr ....81 .". :i 3 in 7.Sii Col Taylor! l . g. Plaudit - Looking Ola-- K. II. Taylor. Jr. s L 1 | 2 7.H2S St. Bernard ....... .ch. g, Ivan the TcrribK Beatrice K B. .1. Brannon ..11 4214 7.4«3 CamoaBear " ch. c, Astronomer — Penitence II Win. Martin ...1H g 4 4 o 7.301 |WU br. f. Br. Keggo — Bremcrhafen K. B. Bradley ..0 s .", 7 ! 7.298 Duchess Lace b. f. Fair Play — Dragnet 11. I. Miller 3« 4 !» 12 11 7.294 Lillian Shaw eh. f. Fair Piny— Karly Kove I. Livingston ... S 4 1 2 1 7.273 Vniericati ce .br. c. Von Tromp — Base gal E. Cebrian 2t fi 7 1 ti 7,2." 0 lord Brighton ch. c. Bitl!"t— Miss Crittenden S. C. Hildreth ... 11 I 1 4 7.041 Boi Craig b. c. Roi Herode — Candacraig Greentree stable. 20 0 4 3 7 7,000
