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Here and There on the Turf Hildreth Trusts Zevs Speed. Donoghue Studies Sande. American Colts Poor Trial. Parkes Unusual Feat. It is pretty well assured now that S. C. Hildreth will depend on ths speed rather than the staying powers of Zev in the 00,000 International match with Mr. Ben Irishs Papyrus Saturday. All of the training of the son of Hie Finn and Miss Kearney tends to indicate such a campaign. The colt has had many a speed exercise, and it is expected that an effort will be made for him to steal away far enough in the early race to come home winner over the mile and a half distance. With a trainer of less skill than Hildreth this would seem to be fatal in such a match. The mile and a half is the route of. a stayer, and it is a route that pretty thoroughly test all that is best in thoroughbreds. Zev has proved himself over sprinting distances, and he has won at the mile and five-eighths of the Lawrence Realization he was never far from the fast of the Kentucky Derby. In the last-named race he made pace all the way, while in the Realization Stakes Zev did not impress as being rushing pacemaker, Untidy. In this same Realiaztion Stakes Zev did not impress as being a long-route traveler, for while he was the winner by a comfortable margin his last quarter was a slow one and he was plainly tired. It is natural to expect Papyrus is a better horse than the Greentree Stable filly, but it is likely that Zev is a better colt today than he was for the running of the Realization. But if the surmise is right that Hildreth intends to have Sande set a sizzling early pace with Zev, that may induce Donoghue to change his plan in the riding of the challenger. Donoghue is a finished horseman, and he will doubtless adapt himself to what is best to bring about a victory. Incidentally Zev will have to take a big lead over the son of Tracery in the first three-quarters if he is to stick it out for the mile and a half, taking a line on what he has been showing in his trials for the race. But it must be remembered that Hildreth has no peer in the conditioning of a horse. He knows Zev thoroughly, and whether his training means sprinting away into a lead that the challenger cannot overcome or being saved in the early racing and outsprinting him through the last half mile it is natural to expect that the plan best calculated to bring victory will be carried out by Sande, Hildreth has not shown his hand beyond the fact that much of the training has been for speed. This speed, used at either end of the race, might bring the desired result, and it will be used as Hildreth in his wisdom directs. Ever a good matchmaker, Hildreth has been quietly confident of the result, and there may be a surprise in store for the crowd when the race is run. Stephen Donoghue had a good look at Earl 1 Sande in action at the Empire City Association i track Wednesday, particularly in the running i of the Scarsdale Handicap, which he viewed i from the stewards stand. The Scarsdale being i at a mile and seventy yards, Donoghue could i not have had a better view of the Sande method of rushing a horse away from the post. Of course, Knobbie, his mount in the Scarsdale, is not as rapid a beginner as Zev, but Sande gave an excellent exhibition of having his mount under way in rapid fashion. Donoghue never took his eyes off Knobbie and Sande all through that race, and he doubtless learned plenty of the tactics of our champion jockey. This may be useful to him Saturday, when he is astride Papyrus and Sande has the leg up on Zev. The Zev trial Wednesday morning caused another slump in his stock, for, while he showed his usual sprinting speed, he died away badly at the end of the mib and a quarter. There were those who watched who reported that the polt was doing his best all the way and was dead tired when he was pulled up. This can hardly be possible, for Hildreth is too shrewd a trainer to even think he had any chance whatever to beat Papyrus if the mile and a quarter in 2:09 or 2:09 , as some watches made it was a pace that would beat Papyrus over a mile arid a half. If Zev was doing his best and tired at the end of his mile and a quarter just four days before the running of the mile and a half of the International match he indeed has" scant chance against Papyrus, for the English celt, though he has b2en working at a slower pace, has always finished his exercises in a way that suggested much in reserve. Then it must be remembered that in all of these trials Papyrus has shown his best speed in his final quarters. He has never been rushed away at the start of his trials, though it is known that he is capable of sprinting away from the barrier should he be asked. Just how he would finish out a mile and a half after setting a fast early pace is another question, but Donoghue knows his mount and there need be no fear of his making a riding mistake. Little I. Parke, the apprentice who is riding at Latonia, has suddenly jumped into fame by riding ten winners in fourteen mounts at the Kentucky track. He brought five winners home Tuesday and then repeated that remarkable feat Wednesday. From time to time there comes a. riding sensation only to fade away quicker than he attained his fame. There have been lucky victories that gave the green jockey a false rating as a rider, but luck cannot bring about the riding of ten winners in fourteen races. This little fellow wa3 only once unplaced in his fourteen consecutive rides, finishing twice third and once second when he was beaten. Another remarkable thing in his feat was that Parke rode seven consecutive winners when he finished first in the sixth and seventh races Tuesday and then won- the first five races Wednesday. This is not luck, and it appears that L Parke has arrived and is one of our most promising of likhtweight apprentices. While Papyrus and Zev will be making glorious turf history at Belmont Park Saturday there will be big turf events at both Laurel and Latonia that will keep both Maryland and Kentucky well entertained. At Laurel the stake offering is the Laurel Handicap, a 0,000 race at a mile for all ages, while the Latonia offering is .tie Latonia Gup, at two miles and a quarter. Each of these big events has a brilliant list of eligibles, and there is every reason to expect that each will be a worthy renewaL
