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Here and There on the Turf Rumor About Kai-Sang. Jockey Club Gold Cup Horses. Now there is a fear that Kai-Sang will not fill his engagement in the Lawrence, Realization Saturday. It is to be hoped that the fear is groundless, but at this time the son of The Finn and Kiluna is looked upon as a doubtful starter. He came out of his last race and its following work-out for the Lawrence Realization sore, and Hildreth has said since that he was afraid he would not be able to bring the colt to the post Saturday. At Saratoga Kai-Sang struck himself in work, but it did not bother him to any extent until the running of the Jerome Handicap. He came out of that race nodding slightly, and since it has been found necessary to apply a blister. The injury is not a severe one, but may be enough to prevent the colt meeting Buntnig in the big race. With the prospect of a meeting between the Futurity winner of last year and the star of the Rancocas Stable three-year-clds, the Lawrence Realization had a new interest after the sterling performance of Bunting Wednesday. It would be a real disappointment if the. two are not brought together. Sometimes before something has happened to prevent championship candidates coming together, and this year the three-year-old championship, if there is any, is still much in the air. Early in the year Lucky Hour and Oceanic were two that loomed big in consideration of that age division. They both went wrong and have been away from the races since early in the year. Morvich was eliminated after his victory in the Kentucky Derby. Then Whiskaway, the one to knock Morvich from his pedestal, went into the stable of C. W. Clark, and he still was the colt of the year until Barnes started him when he was not half fit and he was beaten. That was not the fault of the colt and he is undoubtedly one that must be seriously considered when the best three-year-olds of 1922 are under discussion. Snob II., after his Withers Stakes victory, and after he had been purchased from John Sanford by J. S. Cosden, went wrong. Seren-ader did not last long in his race for the top of the class. Pillory started off well when he won the Preakness Stakes, but Whiskaway attended to his bid for the championship. Surf Rider, from an inauspicious beginning, raced his way well up in the division at Saratoga and has done well since at Louisville. Ilea went wrong before he had a complete chance to show his worth. It has been that way all through the racing year and now when Bunting is brought back, after having been away since the Havre de Grace spring meeting, he may find no colt of demonstrated championship caliber to meet him in the Lawrence - Realization, if Kai-Sang is an absentee. If Kai-Sang is out of the Lawrence Realization there appears to be little chance for a suitable opponent to Bunting in the running of the big prize. Pillory is not in the Realization. Richard T. Wilson doubtless now regrets exceedingly that the son of Olambala and Hester Prynne was not entered. He has shown in his racing that he is a long-route traveler and, in fact, right now Tom Healey has designs on the Jockey Club Gold Cup, at two miles, that is to be run September 16. That is a weight-for-age race for three-year-olds and over, and Pillory will be meeting Grey Lag, the bsst horse in its eligible list, with 114 pounds to 125 on the son of Star Shoot and Miss Minnie. Bunting and Kai-Sang are both eligible to the Gold Cup, and by that time Kai-Sang may be back in the robust racing condition he showed himself to be in all of his preparatory races for the Lawrence Realization. No hors3 will be brought on from Kentucky for the cup, as far as is known at present, and it will be strictly a New York race. What is devoutly to be hoped now is that it will not dwindle before post time, as it seems has the Realization.
