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5,000 AND ,000 GOLD CUP Man o War and Sir Barton Meet at Kenilworth Park October 12. Manager Winn Offers Like Sum for the Big Race to Be Run in Kentucky. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., September 24. Man o "War and Sir Barton will meet on October 12 at Kenilworth Park. Windsor, Canada. They will race over the mile aiid quarter course at weishtsx for age. A sum of 5,000 and a gold cup worth ,000 will be awarded the winner. The facts were disclosed today at the conclusion of n meeting here between A. 31. Orpen, owner of the? Canadian track, and Samuel D. Riddle and J. K. L. Ross, owners respectively of Man o "War and Sir Barton, the three and four-year-old champions. The race goes rain or shine, according to a published contract signed by the three interested parties. Mr. Riddle and Commander Ross each will choose a steward to represent them during the running of the race under the terms of the contract and Francis Nelson, Canadian racing steward, will represent the Kenilworth Jockey Club. Jn case either Man o AVar or Sir Barton is unable through disability to compete on the date set, the other shall receive the gold cup without the money-at . the completion of a mile and a quarter gallop. Man t? War-.will carrjvl20 pounds and Sir Bar-i ton 120. . .. ..j BY J. L. DEMPSEY. LEXINGTON, Ky., September 24. Matt J. Winn, vice-president and general manager of the Kentucky Jockey Club, late Thursday night made the largest offer ever made for a race between thoroughbreds in America, when he announced that the organization of which lie is the moving spirit stands ready to give 5,000 and a ,000 gold cup for a three-cornered race between Mini o War. Sir J!artcn and Exterminator. The offer came following a conference between Mr. Winn and James B. Brown, prominent banker of Louisville and a director of the Kentucky Jockey Club, in which tiie latter- gave the general manager carte blanche to make any proposition that he saw fit in an effort to get the big race for the Blue Grass State. "There is no use in being a piker if you feel .that we Should have the race at any cost," said Mr. JVinn, "so I will ju3t offer 5,000 and a 85,000 gold cup for it." "Go as far as you like," was Mr. Browns comment, "and I know that is the way that the other directors of the Kentucky Jockey Club feel about it with whom I have discussed the matter." Mr. Winn is confident that neither Commander T. K. L. Ross, Samuel D. Riddle nor Willis Simrpe Kilmer, owners of Sir Barton, Man o War, and Exterminator, respectively, have closed a deal with the Kenilworth management, which made a 0,000 offer for the race, as he was assured by trainer H. G. Bedwell that lie would have the last say in competing for the race because it was he who first began the negotiations for it. "The offer of 5,000 and the ,000 cup carries no stipulations with it other than the race must be at one and one-quarter miles or farther. It is up to the owners of the three horses to agree upon the division of the money and they can make it a winncr-takc-it-all affair if they want to. It is up to them to select the track to run it over, as ray offer simply states that it must ba run in Kentucky, and they can pick either Latonia or Louisville. In the event that they pick out Latonia, however, I will make a condition that they run it either soon before or right after the Latonia Championship Stnkcs so that the visitors Avho come for that affair can hnve a chance to see botli races decided. If they choose Churchill Downs I have no objection to them even naming the date for it." OFFER NULL IF KENILWORTH GETS RACE. Although positive that Kenilworth has not clinched the race yet, Mr. Winn said that if the eveut should be held there he would withdraw his offer. "We will get first call on the race or we dont wnnt anything," he said. Negotiations for a meeting between Man o War and Sir Barton began during the recent Saratoga meeting, but Mr. Winn did not openly make any proposition, out of courtesy to the Saratoga management, as both horses were eligible for the Saratoga Cup- and it looked as though they might meet in that race, which was at one and three-quarters miles. When they failed to come together there he had clear sailing and has since left no stone unturned in an effort to get it. Trainer Bedwell and Commander Ross both suggested to Mr. Winn at Saratoga that a race between Sir Barton and Man o War would be a grent tiling, but that it would come pretty high from a money standpoint. Bedwell said that an offer of either 0,000 or 5,000 would prove a sufficient incputivp to get the "pair together, according to Mr. Winn, and lie was immediately informed that the latter figure would be given. The following day one of tlje Maryland tracks made an offer or 0,000 for the race, and as soon as Mr. Winn saw that It was a competitive proposition lie got busy with the directors of the Kentucky Jockey Club, who assured him that this state must have the race at any cast. "As long as the obtaining of this race is an open proposition I feel sure that we will get it if money can turn the trick," said Mr. Winn. "I also know -that In a spirit of fairness I am entitled to last Bay as to the financial proposition necessary to get it and I do not see how the owners of these three great horses can turn down such an offer as I made tonight." Mr. Winn leaves for Latonia tomorrow morning and on Sunday lie will depart for the East. While in that section lie will call on Commander Ross, Mr. Kilmer and Mr. Riddle and he hopes to make the announcement within a few days that the race is clinched for Kentucky. I
