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MY OWN AND ZEYS CHANCE Latonia Championship Stakes Offers Opportunity to Pair. "Whatever the Outcome of International Race Public Would Like to See These Two Rivals Settle Question of Supremacy. LATONIA, Ky., Oct 15. Whatever the outcome of the 00,000 International race at Belmont Park Oct 20th, in which Papyrus, the last Epsom Derby winner, and American 3-year-old Zev are to gallop one mile and a half, the winner to take 0,000, the loser 0,000, the first meeting between the Ran-cocas Stables Zev and Admiral Cary T. Graysons My Own, may probably be in the fifth Latonia Championship Stakes. These great colts are in the Latonia Championship and no race that could possibly be framed would hold out the promise of a fairer test of their powers. A gallop of one mile and three-quarters, the Latonia Championship, was instituted in 1918. The winner of its inaugural was Mad Hatter, son of Fair Play and Madcap, one of the iron horses of the decade. Since his Latonia Championship triumph this aging companion of Zevs in the Rancocas Stable has won two renewals of the Jockey Club Autumn Gold Cup, a weight for age race of two miles for 3-year-olds and over, and innumerable other races. He demonstrated his versatility at Belmont Park last spring by beating, under 128 pounds, a field of dazzling fast sprinters in a renewal of the Toboggan Handicap, and going three-quarters of a mile over the Belmont Park course in 1:10. The second Championship fell to Cleopatra, a daughter of Corcyra, which Arthur B. Hancock, proprietor of the Claiborne and Ellerslie studs, imported from Great Britain and sold to William R. Coe as a yearling. When she licked On Watch, Damask and John P. Grier in 1920 Cleopatra galloped a mile and three-quarters in 2:56. She had previously compelled stout Exterminator, one of Americas greatest long distance runners, to lower the American record for one mile and three-quarters to 2:56, to beat her about a length in the Saratoga Cup. Exterminator has since won two renewals of the Saratoga Cup. In 1921 Sporting Blood, another son of Fair Play and a member of Bud Fishers stable, licked Black Servant one of the best horses Edward R. Bradley has bred at his Idle Hour Stud, also Humphrey. Last year Monfort Jones colt Rockminister, beat Edward F. Simms Lucky Hour and Surf Rider. The fourth Latonia Championship was epochal in American horse racing. Rock-minister, son of Friar Rock and Mallard, and Lucky Hour, son of Hourless and Lucky Catch, she a sister of Lucullite, were brilliant 3-ycar-old developments of last years racing. Beating Lucky Hour a scant length after the son of Hourless had set a murderous pace, Rockminister shaded by a second the American record of 2:56 Exetrminator had set when he won the Saratoga Cup of 1920. Moreover, he equaled the English mark set by Pommern at Newmarket in 1915, when he won the New Stakes. The New Stakes was a wartime substitute for the ancient Doncaster St Leger. Zev and My Own will meet, if they do meet in the Latonia Championship, which - has been appropriately dubbed the American St. Leger, under scale weight That they will Continued on sixteenth page. MY OWN AND ZEVS CHANCE Continued from first page. train satisfactorily as seems probable. Neither has any constitutional ailment, although My Own was laid up in the spring, and Zev was lamed by a training accident in June that prevented his starting in the last Latonia Derby. The son of The Finn and Miss Kearney was preparing satisfactorily for Kentuckys second most important spring special for 3-year-olds, when, in a trial gallop at Belmont Park, he cuffed an ankle. My Owns trouble last spring, the trouble that prevented him from taking part in the 0,000 Preakness and the 0,000 Kentucky Derby, was an osselet. "Whether these colts will prove capable of running such a mile and three-quarters November 3 as Rockminister and Lucky Hour ran last fall remains to be seen. Zev displayed speed and ability to carry on under weight in the Kentucky Derby, the Withers and Belmont Stakes and the Lawrence Realization. My Own, under 125 pounds, galloped a mile in 1:30 over the Saratoga course, and one mile and three-quarters in slow going In 2 :37 in the Saratoga Cup, in which he defeated Bunting. He does not appear to have as much dash as Zev. The son of The Finn probably would beat him in a race of three-quarters. But ho loafs easily behind " almost any sort of pace and, after ho has galloped seven-eighths or one mile, looks unbeatable. Expert opinion in the East is about equally divided on the question of the abilities J of these crack colts.
