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- j i , i I . I ; l ! ! INAUGURATION OF A GREAT RACE INJURIES OF MISS JOY ROB THE PIMLICO FUTURITY OF A MEETING BETWEEN HER AND THE CHAMPION MORVICH, BUT THE ELEMENTS OF A GRAND CONTEST STILL REMAIN The first running of the Pimlico Futurity is soon to occupy the center of the racing stage. This race is a mile dash, for two-year-olds, with 40,000 added. In time it is destined to be the most valuable race of the Amercan turf, but not until it is truly a futurity or produce slakes, with its accumulation of money to be augmented with fees to be derived from the entries of brood mares. The race has no penalties, so the top weight will be 122 pounds for colts and 119 for fillies. Under the conditions of the race there are certain breeding allowances, the limit of which is five pounds. The gross value of the race depends on the number of starters. Each youngster going to the post will cost its owner the neat sum of ,000 for the privilege of competing. It is safe to say this will not deter anv owner who feels that he has a chance to carry off at least a part of the money. Any race for a great sum of money enchains public attention and interest all through the racing world. This race will do so to an extraordinary degree. Aside from that evoked by the high value of the approaching contest was another potent reason. The racing of this year has been marked by the unusual prowess of the colt Morvich and the filly Miss Joy. Morvich has won every race, in which he has started and is now the undisputed champion colt of the year. He is truly a superb development of the young thoroughbred in his best estate. Not less imposing in. the racing, mind was Miss Joy. It cannot be said of her, as a matter of record, that she was undefeated, but it could be truthfully said of her, as a matter of fact, that she was -virtually so, seeing that-it is known of allJ thar she hacl only twice -been beaten and that on each of these occasions she was restrained to let her stable companion Fair Phantom win in order to save her from accumulating penalties. Like Morvich she was gifted With, speed of the highest order; like him she was a wonderful weight carrier and, like him, she was at home in any sort of going. But a real disaster, possibly a crime of intention, in connection with the running of the Breeders Futurity at Lexington ruined this glorious creature for any more racing this year, possibly for all time. So, unexpectedly, the Pimlico Futurity has been robbed of what would have been considered its most spectacular feature. Her removal will hearten owners of fleet-footed ones to send them to. the post, with the consideration uppermost that an obstacle as dangerous on public form as Morvich is no longer to be reckoned with. It is not to be supposed that the demonstrated prowess of Morvich is to scare other eligibles from contending. Owners arc prone to be hopeful and it is to be relied upon that such as Kai-Sang, the only one which has made Morvich stretch his neck in earnest this year; the fleet Futurity winner Bunting; the undefeated St. Henry, said to be a real crack; Star Hawks fine daughter Startle, and others of good repute, public and private, will muster at the starting post when the fateful, day arrives. There is good warrant for this. Wonderful as the achievements of Morvich have been, it is a fact that he has not raced farther than three-quarters of a mile. This he has done in irreproachable style. But he is a member of a family more noted for tremendous speed than for stamina. There are those who think that a mile at high speed may disclose hereditary softness in the case of this grandson of Voter. That is a theoretical element to be considered and it will be considered hopefully by owners of other aspirants. There has been nothing in his racing to suggest any lack of ability to stay a mile. He has done everything he has been asked to do. His nearest to defeat came in the running of the United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga when Kai-Sang, carrying 127 pounds to his 125, ran him to a neck in a desperately contested finish and in the fastest three-quarters of his career. The unflinching gameness with which he answered every call of his .rider on that occasion was one of the much admired features of the race. It may be said in behalf" of the splendid filly Startle that there is no suspicion of a lack of ability to cover a mile in grand. style. She won the Queen City Handicap in 1:39 with 115 pounds up and did still better when she took up 119 pounds and won the Kentucky Jockey .Club Stakes in the faster time of 1:38, with such good colts as Rocket, John Finn, June Grass and Horologe among those she vanquished. Obviously she is to be considered in the big Pimlico race and she will have her following there. . The record of Morvich to date, is no better than of Tryster last year, but this is no detraction from his unquestionable high class, for whatever he may have been this year Tryster was truly a marvelous two-year-old. But Morvich is the hero of 1921 and the performances lhat will send him to the post a prime favorite for the Pimlico Futurity are recounted in the following particulars of his record: MORVICH, brown colt, 1, by Rniuiymedc Ilymir, by Dr. Leggo, , Lengths Date. Track. Race. Dist. Odds. Wt. Won by Value. Time. May Jamaica Suffolk Stakes 5-S 30 112 10. 2,950.00 1:00" May 10 Jamaica Greenfield Selling Stakes 5. f 9-20 112 ! 3 !"5 00 1-07 June 17 Aquduct . Purse 5-S 1-3 110 5 lVslS :r,92 July 2 Aqueduct .Purse 5-S 1-1 122 2 9i! CO l:oiy" July 9 Empire City Purse , .....5. f 1-2 11; 2 83198 1-mV- ; July 20 Empire City Purse f y-r 122 2i 1,272 IS l:0fiV Aug. 5 Saratoga United States Hotel Stakes... 3-4 S-5 125 nlc 9,075 00 l-lli2 Aug. 13 Saratoga Saratoga Special 3-4 3-5 122 2 10 500 00 1-1"V- Aug. 31 Saratoga Hopeful Stakes 3-4 13-10 130 2 34,900 00 1-V4 Sept. 21 Havre de Grace Eastern Shore Handicap 3-4 15-100 130 4 7,100.00 1:13 Track slow.
