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HOLD THE WINNING HAND Kentuckys Rich Fall Turf Prizes Seem to Be at the Mercy of Eastern Turfmen. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 17. Nominations for the rich stakes to be decided on the Kentucky racing circuit at the coming autumn meetings at Lexington, I-atonia and Louisville closed today, and present indications are that more entries will he made to them than ever before for the fall season. While the Latonia Championship Stakes is naturally the big event of the autumn racing, the various cup races will attract more attention than ever this year. General manager Matt J. Winn of the Kentucky Jockey Club, who is at Saratoga looking after the stakes offered by his organization, reports that the easterners are showing decidely more interest in the cup events than ever before, and already some of the best longdistance horses of the older division have been named for them. Several of the Latonia Championship eligibles have shown creditable performances since the Saratoga meeting opened, among them being J. E. Wideners Fair Gain and E. R. Bradleys Best Pal. Both were returned winners during the first seven days of the Spa meeting. It begins to look as though the west will have to place its chief reliance in Best Pal, as the son of Helmet Padula is on form the best of the three-year-olds from this section still eligible for the rich race. It is going to be a tough proposition, however, for any western three-year-old to buck against the stars from the cast in the championship affair, as the later section is too well fortified with high-class horses of this age. Incidentally the easterners kept their best three-year-olds, with few exceptions, eligible to the Latonia Championship Stakes, while the Kcntuckians allowed many of them to drop out. Eastern ownership will be brilliantly represented in the two-year-old stakes. Considerably more than. SSrg.OOO. will be distributed .mohsithe-.lioVse. men ,who"rnee at Lexington, Latonia and Louisville this coming fall. It is possible that the total may run over 1920.sh00,000. The exact sum cannot lie announced until the last declaration fees and the starting charges of the great stakes are computed. The Breeders Futurity, a race of about three-quarters of a mile, is a produce race that will have a value of between 0,000 and 2,000. It is a special of long standing, and last years winner Blazes, a fleet son of Wrack and Blazing Star, bred at Arthur B. Hancocks Claiborne stud in Kentucky, scored under the popular silks of .dipt. Ral Parr of Baltimore. Blazes is owned by Captain Parr and J. A. Cosden, one of the oil millionaires of the southwest. The Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a 0,000 added money affair at one mile, that, will have a gross value of about 5,000, will be run this season for the first time at Louisville. It bids fair to become one of the greatest of mericau two-year-old specials. STAR YOUNGSTERS IN FUTURITY. The most formidable eastern-owned two-year-olds that will take part iu Lexingtons Futurity, probably are Brigadier General, Star Voter, Intrigante, Eternity, Mercury, The Bohemian and Sun-brae. The iast named is a son of Sundridge and Sweet Briar and a brother of Mr. Kilmers great stallion Sun Briar, the American ,two-year-old champion of the season of 1918 and the winner in 1919 of the Delaware Handicap and the Travers Stakes. Sunbrae has not been rushed this year, but he is slowly coming to himself. He will be ready for the colors by the end of the present month and at the top of his form by niid-September. Brigadier General, a giant of a two-year-old, by Light Brigade, bred at Senator Johnson N. Camdens Hartland farm in Kentucky, was purchased by Mr. Riddle from the Quincy Stable while the horses were racing at Aqueduct in July, after he had demonstrated that he was a colt of the highest class. He is improving all the while. The Bohemian is a son of Jim Gaffney, that won at Jamaica in June, beating Mr. McClellands swift-footed Sweep colt Scrapis. He is just recovering from the effects of a fall at the finish of the Great American Stakes, when he appeared to be winning. The Bohemian is to start in the Hopeful at Saratoga and the Futurity at Belmont Park before he conies down to Kentucky for the Breeders Futurity. Star Voter, a son of Ballot and Starry Night, is already known to patrons of Kentucky racing. He came to Kentucky some weeks back and show.ed a clean set of heels to a formidable field in the Cincinnati Trophy. Intrigante, a daughter of Ultlmus and Intrigue, is one of the fleeted stake-winning two-year-old fillies of the east. It Is not improbable that Commander Ross will seiid to Kentucky with these winning youngsters his Snnstar Marian Hood colt Sun Turret, which cost him 5,000 at Emil Herz Short Grass stud sale at Saratoga last summer. Sun Turrets development was retarded by an accident, but he is training brilliantly now. Mercury, a highly tried maiden by Vulcain Rose of Pink, will be Mr. Wideners best two-year-old in the fall. Eternity, a fast son of Ballot and Golden Fancies, is one of the foremost youngsters of the stable of Edward F. Simms and James W. McClelland. Eastern representation in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes will be heavier and stronger than it can be in the Breeders Futurity, because the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, which did not close until last July, attracted more entries than did the Breeders Futurity.
