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FORTUNES FOR TURF STARS 1 All Racing Associations Will Raise Stake Values for 1921. Champions of Younger Divisions Can Amass the Largest Winnings in History Next Year. jj of y The turf world looks 1o Saratoga to develop a two- p year-old which may prove not only another Man o War; but in all likelihood the largest winner, in a monetary way, of any racehorse in recent turf his- 1: tory. What the name of this colt or filly is and f who is its owner, is at present a quandary, as there are so many good youngsters out this year that I the animal to bring fame and glory may have never i been to the races. s In any event, the colt or filly which carries off . the honors at Saratoga, barring accident, will have 1 a chance next year to earn the largest sum ever recorded in the history of American racing, for it seems that not only the eastern racing associations, but tiie Maryland and Kentucky Jockey Clubs, ara 1 going to vie with each other as to which will hang 1 up the largest money for stakes next year. Heports come from all three of these localities where the sport of racing is flourishing that next year stake- ! of the value of from 5,000 to 0,000 will be of common occurrence. , During the recent meeting at the Aqueduct course i a story was sent out which stated that persons officially connected with the American turf were planning the runuing of a 0,000 Derby at Belmont Park, next spring. The notable turfmen mentioned with this project were Joseph E. Weidencr, Harry . Payne Whitney, August Belmont and Harry F. Sin- 1 clairw the sjatter a inemljp r. of the New. York-J3tn,te- -Baclng: Coiniiilssion.T"Mr. WcTdeiifer -"seems to be one. of the progressive spirits which suggested the 0,000 Derby, and it is said he found willing 1 abqUiesencc in the proposal from the others. AMERICAN DERBY A PROBABILITY. i Commissioner Sinclair, who is part owner of the racing establishment trained by S. C. Ilildreth. , . which recently purchased the two-year-old Inch-cape from J. II. Rosseter for the reported price of 50,000, the highest -price ever paid for a two- 1 year-old, talked over the Belmont Park Derby with Messrs. Weidencr. Belmont and Whitney, and it is said they all agreed that such a Derby, which it is said will be named the American Derby, would be feasible and entirely within reason from a viewpoint of the present healthful condition of the sport in the East. As it had been practically agreed that the management of the Belmont Park course ,wouId change the manner of racing the reverse way of the track ut Belmont Park next year, such a Derby would j attract a field of the highest class three-year-olds i in training in America. That such a race would i " attract an immense crowd of lovers of thoroughbred 1 racing, it followed that the officials of the Westchester Racing Association would be taking no i dangerous financial risks, as such an event would I draw for admission something like 00,000. It also followed that such an attractive money value ; for this event would bring many entries from Great t Britain, France and Ireland, giving the race an 1 international flavor. PIMLICO HAY HAVE FUTURITY STAKES. Maryland and Kentucky Jockey Clubs, not to be : outdone by the East, also have come out with announcements they would increase their notable fixtures, which would equal those proposed by eastern sportsmen. Announcement was made by the Maryland Jockey Club Monday to the effect it would J add a Futurity Stakes to its list of events at Phhtlco next year with 0,000 added money, the 2 first running cf the race to take place in the 2 autumn of 1921. The Preakncss Stakes, which has about the same conditions as the Kentucky Derby, also will be raised to 0,000 added value, it was s announced. Manager M. J. Winn of the Kentucky Jockey r Club, who claims that the Kentucky tracks will 1 break all records this year in the amount of money y given to horsemen, said recently that the racing ; public need have no alarm that the Kentucky " Jockey Club will not again stand at the top 1 next year in the value of its stakes and n dried fixtures. He did not say whether the Kentucky f Derby would have an added value of 0,000 next year, hut intimated that the "blue riband" of the Americun turf would still be not only its most 1 historic event, but would be its richest. Charles F. Grainger, who looks over the destinies of Churchill Downs, agreed with Manager Winn that the Kentucky Derby next year would still be e Americas principal running event. Before the organization of the Kentuckv Jockey y Club and the combination of all the Kentucky y tracks Mr. frainger was president of the New if Louisville Jockey Club Churchill Downs, and d helped to build that course up from decadence to o its present prosperous condition. Mr. Grainger has s ever been a stickler for big money races and increased i- purses. It was Mr. Grainger who set the e pace when he suggested that the Kentucky Derby be Increased to 0,000 added, then 5,000 added and last year 0,000 added. If the best two-year-old of this year should prove the best three-year-old. like Man o War. of next year, there is a possibility that such a thoroughbred could capture a fabulous sum in stakes j alone. Also the possibility of a coming two-year- j old for winning the largest amount ever credited I to a racer of that age is the promise held out at j present. I
