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BANNER YEAR FOR RACING Close to 3000000 Distributed in First Six Months of 1920 Records of the Ten Leading LeadingOwners Owners Horses Jockeys ir and Trainers Close to 3000000 or to be exact 2980988 was distributed in stakes and purses during the first six months of 39120 racing in the United States Canada Cuba and Mexico It was pre ¬ dicted earlier In the spring that with the reopen ¬ ing of the Canadian tracks and the resumption of racing at Tijuana the prosperous figures of 1905 and 1007 of 420381 and 375553 respectively would be reached this year In view of the fact that already more than half of those sums has been distributed it now seems quite probable the above prediction will be fulfilled Indeed it would not be surprising to see them surpassed With the great array of valuable stakes to be de ¬ cided at Saratoga in August with increased stake and purse values for New York autumn racing together with the great annual harvest which Mary ¬ land yields in the fall of the year not to say anything of the stupendous sums to be given away in Kentucky the Kentucky Jockey Club announc ¬ ing that more than 500000 would be distributed the six million mark may be reached reachedOne One of the most interesting features of this years racing is the close rivalry between the stables of II P AVhitney and J K L JJossfor the leadership of the money winning ownersr Up to July 1 Mr Whitney had a slight lead over the Ross establishment the first named having 100 840 to his credit while the Ross figures stand at 100313 Capt Ral Parr is third on the list prin ¬ cipally through the successes of Paul Jones Then follows the Glen Riddle Farm of which the cham ¬ pion Man o War is the main contributor The disappointment of the year has been the powerful stable of S C Ilildreth which was expected to play a most important part in the 1920 campaign However the season is young and the Ilildreth stars will be heard from later The ten lead ¬ ing winning owners from January 1 to and includ ¬ ing the racing of Juno 30 are as follows followsOwner Owner 1st 2d 3d Amt AmtII II P Whitney 40 27 25 100840 100840J J K L Ross 59 40 30 100343 R Purr 19 7 li 01791 Glen Riddle Farm 7 3 5 43083 Suiinyhind Stable 10 22 13 32109 E R Bradley 15 7 31845 S C Ilildreth 13 5 G 23823 Arthur J 21 20 20 23551 Irwin Bros 49 48 50 22955 Salmon W J Paul Jones victory in the richest of all Ken ¬ tucky Derbys gives him the leadership of the moneywinning horses to date The peerless Man o War is a close second and it is only a question of another race before he will be leading as a champion should The good handicap horse Bonlfilce is third the following being the record of the ten leading moneywinning horses up to July 1 1Horse Horse 1st 2d 3d Amt AmtPaul Paul Jones 3 1 0 39843 39843Man Man o War 4 0 0 39025 39025Boniface Boniface 830 31324 31324Upset Upset 2 2 0 24909 24909Tryster Tryster 4 0 0 15730 15730Careful Careful 7 0 0 15991 15991Irish Irish Kiss 5 2 2 14312 14312Centimeter Centimeter 5 0 0 13 500 500King King Gorin 1 1 1 12770 12770Blue Blue Wrack 2 1 0 12550 Jockey J Carmody still maintains his pride of place at the head of the jockey list for the year but his lead is not such that any one of the ten leaders cannot overtake him in fact C Duggan J Rodriguez K Coltiletti and L Lyke arc all within hailing distance Lyke has the best aver ¬ age of the leaders The records of the ten lead ¬ ing riders from January 1 to and including the racing of June 30 are as follows Jockey Mts 1st Id 3d Unp PO Carmody J 452 98 77 70 200 22 Duggan C 450 82 09 05 240 18 Rodriguez J 79 07 197 18 Lyke L 271 04 37 30 140 24 Coltiletti F 298 02 511 47 133 21 Wida S 428 r9 i 78 07 224 224r 14 Roberts J 337 57 r 54 41 185 185i 17 Murray T i 45 30 130 130i 21 Stack G i 37 41 200 10 Connelly D 274 50 44 37 143 18 Kay Spence has saddled the largest number of winners during the first six months of racing the thefollowing following being the records of the ten leading trainers trainersWin Win Amt AmtSpence Spence K 50 48041 48041Clopton Clopton S A 38 58377 58377Bedwell Bedwell II G 37 70893 70893Arthur Arthur J 32 33120 33120Burttschell Burttschell W A 32 31752 31752Rick Rick A 28 13185 13185Davis Davis II E 27 15215 15215Hafley Hafley W 25 12250 12250Perkins Perkins W 23 28K0 28K0Schelke Schelke F 23 23900
