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300-MILE ENDURANCE RACE Forty Horses of All Classes Entered, Including Six Thoroughbreds. Six thoroughbreds have been entered for the endurance test which will start from Fort Ethan Allen, Vr., Monday, October 11, and finish at Camp Devens, Mass., the following Friday night. Four of these have been entered by the Thoroughbred Endurance Test Club of Kentucky. This organization is composed of admirers of the thoroughbred horse who got together in a determination to see that the thoroughbred was fittingly represented in the great contest this year. A year ago only one was entered, but he failed to start, and it was suspected at that time that the thoroughbred men did not care to accept the issue in suclt a grueling test. The Kentucky organization, however, gives assurance that four horses will go to the line, fully prepared to go through with the long grind. Two other thoroughbreds have been entered by individuals. The Thoroughbred Club has named Moscowa, a bay gelding; Majella, a chestnut mare; U Twenty-Three, a chestnut gelding, and David Craig, a chestnut gelding. These horses and one other were shipped from Kentucky to Vermont several weeks ago and have been in training ever since over the stiff roads of the Green" Mountain State. Edward R. Bradley has entered his brown thoroughbred stallion Helmet, while Joseph H. Choate, son of the famous lawyer, has named his chestnut gelding Sunfisher. Every one of these is a recognized thoroughbred. Moscowa is a grandson of the great English sire Persimmon, which won the Derby in 1890. Moscowas paternal granddam was Isonomy, and these two were among the most famous horses on the English turf. His maternal granddam was Eolus, than which there was no better In this country in her day. Isonomy and Eolus were great stayers, and Moscowa is expected to prove one of the really great horses in the test. Majella is a daughter of imported Carlton Grange. Helmet is a son of Disguise and St. Mildred the latter the imported daughter of St. Simon, a Derby winner. U Twenty -Three is by Ivan the Terrible Colloquy, and comes of noble lineage. David Craig is by Peep oDay Avon II. The Choate entry is by Woodson Lady Betz, the latter being, the daughter of the great Hanover. The trotters will be represented by two entries made by John E. Madden, while O. B. Brown has entered an American saddle horse. Among the entries thus far tabulated are three grade thoroughbreds, three registered Morgans and nine regis-, tered Arabs. It will be a number of days before the final entries are in, but it is expected that forty horses will go to the line.
