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Here and There on the Turf Papyrus and His Chances. The Latonia Championship. Chacolets Victory. Sarazen and St. James. Ever since Mr. Ben Irish agreed to send Papyrus to America to run a mile and a half against the best three-year-old that could be found to opposs him much has been written and said of the tremendous handicap the English colt would suffer. There is still talk of the big handicap and much of it is without sound foundation. Papyrus may be at a slight disadvantage in the interruption of his training, but even that is questionable. He will be racing over a strange course, but that does not mean that it will be a course that will prove a disadvantage. The most nonsensical contention probably is that he will not have time to become acclimated. In this connection he would be in much better health for the test racing within six weeks of his landing than he would be in six months. The trip over should do him good rather than harm, and that is the opinion of as expert a horseman as Dr. R. W. McCuUy. There really has been no chance for the son of Tracery to "go off since the St. Leger, and he will need no sympathy when he goes to the post on October 20, provided he meets with no accident between now and that date. With the recollection of how Whisk Broom II. was brought over from England in the spring of 1913 and was the winner of the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps should set at rest the question of the necessity of acclimation for a horse that is fit when he is shipped. Whisk Broom H. carried 126 pounds in the Metropolitan, 130 in the Brooklyn and in the Suburban he took up 139 pounds, ten pounds more than any other horse carried to victory in that famous old race. The case of Short Grass was similar. He was a better horse immediately after landing in this country than he was at any time afterward. It is admitted that Papyrus may be acczpting something of a handicap, but it would not seem that it is in any sense a serious one, and he may be looked upon to be an exceedingly fit colt when he is called to the post. There is really no need for a special match to bring Admiral Cary T. Graysons My Own and the Rancocas Stables Zev together after the running of the International match on October 20. Both of these celts are engaged in the Latonia Championship, to be run at Latonia on November 3, and Colonel Winn has had assurances from both Admrial Grayson and Mr. Sinclair that they will race. This is a race with 5,000 added, over a mile and three-quarters, at scale weight It comes in the natural course of the engagements of both celts and at a date that should make it possible for each to be on hand. The only difference between the Latonia Championship Stakes and a special for the two celts is the matter of distance. All the proposals for a match have been at a mile and a half, but Hildreth has agreed to send Zev over this extra distance, and naturally it is to the liking of Admiral Grayson. Thus it is readily seen that as far as a meeting between these two great colts is concerned there need be no special arranged, as far as Kentucky h concerned. Should Papyrus beat Zev on October 20 there will be bids, and big ones, for a match between the English colt and My Own. That would prove a race of almost equal interest as the coming International match and would probably indues another 00,000 offer. It was a great surprise when Chacolet came home winner of the Kentucky Special Handicap at Latonia Saturday and was just as much a surprise to the Kentuckians as it was to those who had made the trip from the East to witness the race. The daughter of St. Amant and Martial Note had never shown enough to warrant the belief that she was capable of her mighty deed and, even admitting that she was in the handicap exceedingly well when only asked to shoulder 103 pounds, it seemed too big a contract. But there Is always a reason for a winner, and Chacolet, though she had not shown Kentucky Special quality in her racing, surely had it in her veins, for she is a chanly bred mare and of stoutest stock. Her dam, Martial Note, is a daughter of Carbine, and that at once takes her to what is most desired in the thoroughbred. Sarazen is going right along on his winning way, and his latest accomplishment at Laurel has added another deep notch in his gun. He simply played with his opposition in the ,000 National Stakes, over a three-quarters distance. In this he gave away from ten. pounds to Moon Star all the way to fourteen pounds to Aga Khan, and it was no race. Just now it would be interesting if this brilliantly fast son of High Time and Rush Box could meet St. James, George D. Wideners Futurity winner. This may be possible before the end of the year, but it is hardly probable. The fact that Sarazen is a gelding is a serious bar to him in many big engagements both this year and next, but all of his races suggest that t is lucky for the reputation of both the colts and the fillies that he is unsexed and accordingly ineligible. Kentucky has its star in Wise Counsellor, and there are those in Kentucky that are willing to believe that he is better than Sarazen. There would be a chance to settle this question next Saturday if both could be brought together at Latonia in the Fort Thomas Handicap, to which both are eligible. .
