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i : . I i j 1 j ! ! j i . ; j I j i I j I I I ; j I ; ! . i I j j i j ! j I j i : i j ! j j ! ! I , ! j ! ! ! , I j I j i ! j j j ! i j j ; " i BELMONTS COLOR BEARER t How Fair to Represent Him in the Pimlico Futurity. "JJiiil" Fisher to Establish breeding Farm with Sporting Blood as Its Premier. 6 NEW YORK, N. Y.. October 30. There was more at stake than the purse when August Belmonts How Fatr was started in the live and a half furlongs dash at Empire City last Friday. That was to be a trial to determine whether or not she would be started in the 0,000 Prmlico Futurity, the mile race for two-year-olds to be decided ; at the Maryland Jockey Club course Satur- j day. November 4. Major Belmont had made j up his. mind that if his home-bred daughter j of Fair Play and Hour Hand beat T. W. OBriens Shamrock in the Yonkers race he would send her after the big Pimlico prize. It is remembered how she beat him f ron. barrier rise to finish and now she is named las a sure starter for the big prize, barring accident. It costs ,000 to start for this $ I0.C00 added race and it is natural that care should be exercised in making the selection from any string. This fast brown miss has done just about all that George Odom has asked of her and, when she is sent to the post in the Pimlico Futurity, she will be j ready to race all the way. In all of net j races she has shown both extreme speed and j stamina and she is the type that should find a mile well within her possibilities. The Pimlico Futurity closed with 703 entries on i November 8, 1920, and in its list are found j the names of about all the best juveniles; that have been shown this year. It is a j race that has been looked forward to by i everyone with a good colt or filly and it cannot fail to bring about a notable race, II. C. Fisher has promised to blossom out I as a breeder of thoroughbreds and to that end he is looking about for a suitable farm in Kentucky. He will use Sporting Blood as his premier stock horse and already has the nucleus of a good beginning in the mares that he -will send to his court. There are few more stoutly bred horses than Sporting Blood and he ought to quickly give the Fisher farm an importance in the thoroughbred industry. He is a four-year-old son of Fair Play and the Rock Sand mare Felicity, and was bred by August Belmont. Alex Gordon, who has campaigned the Fisher horses with a full measure of success over the New. York tracks, has shipped an even dozen to their winter quarters at Douglas Park. Louisville. The eight yearlings that were purchased at the Saratoga sales are already receiving their early education. One of the severe losses of the stable this year was the" untimely death of the filly Brocade. She was a daughter of Broomstick and that good daughter of Celt, Embroidery, and was intended as a matron at the pro-! posed breeding farm, when she was through racing. Mr. Fisher is taking a deeper in-! tcrest in racing each year and his intention to go into breeding is an indication that his interest is a lasting one. In addition to the fourteen which now comprise the Fisher stable the following year- lings will be added : Chestnut colt, by Ballot Eden Hall, by Armeath II. I!ay filly, by Luke McLuke La Vciiganza, by Abor-eorn. Bav or brown filly, by North Star III: Dismiss, by Osden. Chestnut lilly, by Omar Khayyam Chemulpo, by Ben Slrome. Hay colt, by Omar Khayyam Honey Bee, by Hamburg. lirown lilly, by Short Grass Junta, by Burgomaster. Chestnut colt, by The Finn Lady Tarantella, by Plaudit. Chestnut colt, by AVormlei;;hton Daisy Piatt, by Marta Santa.
