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Here and There on the Turf Papyrus Making Ready. Latonias Big Day. Zev Close to Record. Pimlicos Rich Stakes. It has been promised that early next week the real serious business of making Papyrus ready for his match of October 20 at Belmont Park vs-ill begin. Already every appearance of the handsome son of Tracery has created wide interest, and when Basil Jarvis permits his charge to show something in the way of speed this interest will naturally be greatly increased. When this greatest of all races was framed there were those who could see no chance for a colt to be brought over from England on such short notice and "have the ghost of a chance in strange surroundings to beat such a colt as Zev or My Own. But this idea has changed materially since Papyrus took up his abode at Belmont Park, and every day since his arrival there has been a revision of this opinion. Papyrus has adapted himself to Belmont Park so easily now that the best judges are willing to admit that the colt that races against him will have to be in every sense a champion to take his measure. Of course, our standards are different from those in England. That is, our estimates are reached in a different manner, and it is not until Jarvis asks Papyrus to do something fast that any real line will be possible on his chances. Thus far he has impressed greatly, and even in his slow, easy moves he has a way of going to suggest that he is both a fast colt and a colt that will stay to the end of the road. Saturday is the big day at Latonia with the inauguration of the 0,000 Kentucky Special Handicap, and indications are that the field will be a large one. For a considerable time the candidates have been arriving on the tcene and, while several of them have shown readiness in recent races, others have been working in a fashion to promise big things when they are called to the post. While the East will have a powerful hand in the various candidates that have been pointing for the race, Kentucky will also bz well able to meet this invasion. C. W. Clarks hih-priced Whiskaway is one of the latest to come to the fore. This vas when he beat a fast band of printers over the three-quarters distance. And what made the performance of particular merit vas the misfortune he overcame and the epeed with which he finished. Three-quarters can hardly be taken as an adequate test for a race of a mile and three-sixteenths, but it demonstrated that the son of Whisk Broom II. and Inaugural has all his fcpeed. He is well able and ready to race the Kentucky Special route, and it would not be surprising if he prove1 best, The Kentucky hope is not all wrapped up in Ux, Clarks good colt, There are other, well calculated to make it extremely interesting for any of tiie invaders, so that this newett of the rich etake opportunities U sure to bo inaugurated with a real contest, It is almost probable that the Rancocas Stables Zev will wind up the racing year the greatest money-winning horse of the American iurf. With his winnings now 75,903 a victory in the International match against Papyrus would make his total 55,903, or just ,438 over the figures of Man o War, whose winnings for his two years on the turf amounted to 49,405. And this is only the second year for the son of The Finn and Miss Kearney. Should he be beaten on October 20 his figures would still be 95,903, and he has other engagements that would make the topping of Man o War easily possible. It is safe to predict that Zev will not be sent into retirement at the end of his thrcc-ycar-old racing Ecason, as was Man o War. That is not the usual Hildrelh plan. Zev is a sound horse and he has every prospect in another year of topping every thoroughbred in history in the matter of winnings. Just now that proud place is held by Ksnr of the French turf with a total of 20,000, while the mighty Isinglass in England was winner of 91,000. Zev has made certain that the Rancocas Stable for the third successive year will lend all the winning owners, the total already being well over the records of both 1921 and 1922. The condition book for the twelve lays meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club has been issued, This meeting continues from October 30 until November 12, and for that meeting it, is, provided tmt 23,300 will be distributed in added money, Hie biggest prize is the 0,000 Pimlico Futurity, at a mile, for two-year-olds, "to be run November 3, Last year the starting list was so heavy for this that it was made two races, decided the same day, one being won by Sallys Alley, while the other fell to Blossom Time.. There will be no such split of the race this year, and it is a sure thing that the field will be one of the largest seen in any stake race in all the year. There are four stakes of 0,000 added in the Manly Memorial Steeplechase, the Bowie Handicap of a mile and a half, the Pimlico Cup of two miles and a quarter and the Walden Handicap, at a mile, for the two-year-olds. The book is the usual attractive one that is issued by the Maryland Jockey Club, and one of its features is the presentation of 0 to the trainer of every winner. Already horses are being shipped to the Baltimore courso, and everything points to a tremendously successful meeting.
