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GOLDEN HARVEST OF 1920! + Wonderful Opportunity Presents Itself for a Truly Great Racer. • Over 00,000 in One Years Racing Awaits the All Conquering Hero. The year of golden opportunity. Never were there so many rich take* in the history of Asaeri-.-. ii racial an are offered for the year MSB. Never w.is there such aa opportunity far ■ truly treat race horse lo break all existing American records far winnings in ■ single year. Bat it will hare te he "the horae o# the century" nan ■ three year-aid. i tare year eM or harae aMer than three years had the same opportunity thai a taaee-year-ahl , arill hare. Here is haw the feal eaaM he a»- , complished: Beginning with the Kentucky Derby, which this year linn SH.OUQ added, he winner, with ahwai :,ii.ipMi to hi* credit, would have to go eaal and win the Preakaem Stakes : t PtaHea, aa Bit Bar- i lid met rear. Thai victory would iai about pjZi.ftuu asore ta iii- totni. certainly ■ goad start — j." ."..iKMt for two races. The next atare would be to the aietropolitan track*. At Belmont Park racees* in the Withers Stakes woohl yield aboal svoou. and thea ■ qaick trip to Keatackjr and victory ia the Latoaia Derby u, 1 1 1 : i riac I13.0M or mare. Back to Belmont Hark in time to farther enhance liis fmnc ia the Belmont Si. ike- :iik1 .-nl l slJ.itoO or so to liis ra-t climbing total. Ilic Dwyer Shakes arid the Kmiplre City Derby. each worth about sri.ooo. woaM he plums worth picking oa tie way to Saratoga. At the Spa it would only be aeisHimj to win one race, thai the famous Trarera Btakea, which will tiiis year be with ahaal .sio.ihmi to the wfcaaer. The plan of campaign would thea take the eounjueriag beta hack J Belmont Park, where the rapture of the it.-.iliz.ition would acad the total ap another tlu.OOO. Thea on to Keatacky for the richest arise of the year the Latoaia rhampionship Stake* af an estimated ralne of sin. mm ta the aiaaer. Here i- ■ total of approximately Mao.OOO to be won in lea racea by a three-Tear-ali without •ace going aal of his claea and without iaiag as much as Boase of the old-time Btoroachbreahi were a-k.-,i to do at that age. A colt that outclassed his competitors as Man o* War outclassed the ether two-year-oMa of 1910. and thai had the campaigning qualities of Rpendthrift, Man o Wars great -graanetre, might pile ap earnings to eclipae those of Domino, the greatest moaey wiaaiag harae la American tart history, and da it all la one seanon. Only HO.OM woaM hare to be aided to the total mentioned ■bore lo reach sjmi umi and surpass nominoa record • t sip:; :..~,n. WHAT STARS OF OTHER DAYS DID. Spendthrift started eight limes .-,- ■ taree-yaar-i id ta 187», wiaaiag f i ■■ race- and raaaiag second in the other three, in .lie of which, the Withers, be was pulled doable to lot his table companion, Han BparHag, win. This race was run aa May :il al Jerome Park, and aa .lune S Spendthrift won the Belmoal Slakes, then ■ mile and a half, defeating Monitor and other cracks. Fire days later ai the same meet lag be won the rich LorU-lard Stakes al one mile and three-eighths, beattag Harold, Monitor. Dan Sparling and a 1 . of others in what was for year- referred to a* the greatest performance ever made by a three-year-old in America, At Monmouth Park on .Inly § be won the Jersey Derby at one mile and ■ half, and tea days later was in Saratoga, starting agaiaal lal-■etto for the Trarera Stakes at one mile and three -qaarters, when -ore from the effects of a kick. Though beaten hj ■ great horae be eaaae hack after an Interval of three day- and reaewed the coatest in the Keaaer stakes at two miles. again soetaiaiag defeat. At Ifoaaaoath Park aa AukosI a he won the Champion Stakes at one mile and a half, defeating Bramble and other- of high class, and on del., her -J be closed the campaign al Jerome Park by raaaiag secoad ta Monitor la ih.-Jerome stake- at one mile and three quarters. This campaign, though far more severe than any twentieth eeatary three-year-old Is ever asked !■• endure, was mild and Indulgent by comparison with thai of I. uke lUaekiiurn la the foil owiag year. After bavin* -tailed thirteen times as a two-year-old and wiaaiag naly twice, the -tout soa of Bonnie Scotland eaaae out early in the spriag al iss i aad -tailed la iweug ha, racea, tweaty-two af which be woa, meet ins and bealiag aol only the beat three year ohis inn raaae of the besl older aged horses of bis time at distaaces up to two miles. Akamai as strenuous was the campaign endured by Hindoo In the followtag year 1881. He started in twenty racea, of which be woa eighteea, including the Kentucky Derby. Lorillard. Traver*. Cham- pi,,,,, etc. liindoo l- bos considered a the greateal her-,-- of all tine -. Later eaaae the araaderful Hanover, which as a ti, ii-.- ,ar old outdid even Lake Blackbarn aad Hindoo as far as -ti einioii- campaigaiag i- roa-ceraed, with a record of tweatj victories oal or twentj -even -tar:- to his credit, Bseetiat and defeating the l»e-t of hi- rear, aol only of hi- own age but those of the matured divisiou. However, th -tar- of other days hail no pucfa ri.li and tempting prices offered them a- i- now proffered to the three-year-a*aa of l»2B, is II . i t.i in ih.n the bitters owaers will i" willing to ri-k such a -treniieii- campaign, even to win the hage fortune at stake. He that a- it may, there i- no deayiag thai tin- i- a year ol golden ocmortanilj "i, the turf, and a goMea harvesi awaits I,, ilea- sarla a- I. uke Blackburn, Hindoo. Hat over be af more i" rwl year-, a By* mby or a i .in . I I
