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IMPRESSIONS OF GREAT RACE Compared With the Famous Doncaster Cup Clashing of Voltigeur and Flying Dutchman. BY exile. It now appears to be definitely settled that the big 5,000 special cup race between the champion, three-year-old Man o War and the chieftain of the four-year-olds, Sir Barton, is to tie brought off in Canada. Well done, Canada, for be it remembered Canada, hard hit by the war, is not in anything like so favorable a position financially as is the United States. And to her must be accorded nil honor for her pluck and enterprise in securing unto herself the biggest and best race ever brought off on the North America continent. Interesting sidelights on the big race, which is. by the way. strongly reminiscent of the Doncaster Cup duel hetween Voltigeur and Flying Dutchman, are that the claims of Gnome seem to have been ignored. Remember, it was only in the last two strides that Sir Barton got the better or Gnome in their Merchants and Citizens Handicap argument, and this, too, after the Ross representative had momentarily been lieiided a sixteenth out. when Gnome made his accustomed electric stretch rush, which same rush so quickly carried him past Exterminator, Naturalist and Mud Hatter in the running of the Champlain. Of course. Gnome each time was iu receipt of w ight, nineteen pounds from Exterminator and eighteen from Sir Barton. It was rather the manner and style of his running that was so convincing and it also is conceivable that Gnome can still be made a better horse. Also, it will never do to forget that Sir Barton, giving three pounds by the- handicap, had beaten Kxterminator with all ease in the running of the Saratoga Handicap. How. then, conies it that the claims of Gnome were overlooked? ,,Yet another most interesting, and also instructive jjoiDjtjis Hmtit!iiirutchiinjijii,artp.breil xnfiiF; itlending "if the bhiod ot hutting. Is "fins ask you, merely conihcidenceV I rather fancy not. 2klnn o War is a son of the Matehem sire Fair Play, and his dam, Mahubah, a daughter of the triple crown winner and Kclipse horse Rock Sand, and Sir Barton by the Eclipse triple crown horse Star Shoot Lady Sterling, by the Herod horse Hanover, with the Matehem strain brought in three times by way of Melbourne. For some time past I have been trying to convince others, ns I have convinced myself, that it is by a commingling of the strains of Herod, Matehem and Kclipse that the best results in .blookstock breeding are to be had and of the efficacy of this plan of mating there can be no better or more convincing argument than the pedigrees of the Kenilworth Cup contestprs. Tiie two of them were bred in Kentucky, Man o War by Major Belmont at his Nursery Stud, and Sir Barton by John E. Madden at Hamburg Place. As to size and looks, the dauntless Sir Barton is of medium stature, but strong and sturdy as they come, and Man o War a dreadnaught, of the Queen Elizabeth type, of truly Matterhorn proportions, with all the size and strength of a gladiator. As a spectacle the race will be worth going many a parnsang to see, and hereby I beg to extend to the Kenilworth executive the heartiest of congratulations iu having done the best tiling possible for the sport of racing in North America and also for the thoroughbred horse interests of this continent, and it only remains for mc to reiterate the adieu of that famous English starter, "Good-bye, God bless you; may the best horse win."
