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TURF PRIZE OF YEAR Col. Winn Captures It in Bringing Zev and My Own Together. Guarantees Value of 0,000 for Latonia Championship Stakes Providing the Rivals Meet. LATONIA, Ky., Oct 27. CoL M. J. Winn, general manager of the Kentucky Jockey Club, captured the turf prize of the year when he succeeded in matching Zev and My Own in the Latonia Championship Stakes, to be run t Latonia next Saturday, November S. When .Zev defeated Papyrus in the International race at Belmont Park, there was general rejoicing in this country that an American horse, bred, owned and trained here, had won, but the sacrifices made by Admiral Grayson to provide a substitute in My Own, greatly increased the admirers of this sterling colt and crystallized a public demand that he should have the opportunity to meet Zev and settle the three-year-old supremacy. Col. Winn, seizing the psychological moment, secured the consent of Admiral Grayson and Mr. Sinclair and trainer Hildreth, that My Own and Zev would meet in the Latonia Championship Stake on November 3. In appreciation of the sporting spirit displayed by both owners, general manager Winn guaranteed the value of the race to be 0,000 and a handsome gold cup to the winner. That he triumphed in the face of formidable eastern competition was a compliment to his powers of persuasion, and brought new honors to the Kentucky Jockey Club, which takes pride in maintaining racing on the highest plane. zev m rrrns fettle. Trainer Hildreth has Zev at the top of his form, his race with Papyrus only adding the finishing touch to his training. He has wired Col. Winn that Zev will be shipped to Latonia on Thursday. Assistant trainer Leary, who brought Bracadale on for the Queen City Handicap, says that at least four other horses will be brought by Hildreth as Zev wears out every horse in the stable. Admiral Grayson publicly stated that he declined to start My Own in the 5,000 Washington Handicap, run at Laurel today, because he would be a sure starter in the Latonia Championship on November 3. Col. Winn in commenting on the race said: "The meeting of Zev and My Own will be the sensational turf contest of the year. Both horses have their partisans and in bringing them together in the Latonia Championship Stakes, I only respond to an insistent demand from press and public that they should race over a long distance of ground for the three-year-old crown. The championship, at 1 miles, provides the opportunity, and Messrs. Sinclair, Hildreth apd Grayson co-operated with me in the frankest and most generous fashion. There is a great demand for boxes and reserved seats, and I believe that all attendance records will be broken." CRACK THREE-YEAR-OLDS. Zev and My Own, probably are as fine a pair of three-year-olds as have appeared in American racing in some time. Zev, bred at John E. Maddens Hamburg Place Stud in Fayette County, Kentucky, has won revivals of the Kentucky Derby, the Withers, Belmont and Lawrence Realization Stakes and the great International match, to say nothing of the Paumonok, Rainbow and Queens County Handicaps. Having accounted for 524.C35 last year in five winning races, 35,-248 this year in nine, Harry P. Sinclairs fleet brown colt is now the greatest of American thoroughbred money earners. His gross earnings of 59,913 top the total of Man o" War, the worlds thoroughbred sensation of the years of 1919 and 1920, by 0,000. Gallant old Exterminator, Americas distance running star through half a dozen hard years, has won about ,200 less than Man o War. Zev is a son of The Finn, a brown or black stallion by Ogden, which raced Avith conspicuous success ten and twelve years back. The Finn is one of the most successful young stock horses in the country. His purchaser, in a sale consummated late last winter, was William R. Coe, of New York and Wyoming. The Finn is standing in Kentucky at Phil T. Chinns Himyar Stud. My Own is a Virginia bred son of King James and Bottie Landon, a product of H. Rozier Dulanys modest stud of Fauquier County, Virginia. His breeder, a sportsman of Virginia and Washington, represents one of the old seignorial families of northern I Continued on fourteenth pace. TURE PRIZE OF YEAR Continued from first page. Virginia, a family that has bred thoroughbreds through a century and a half. My Own is a younger brother of My Dear, one of the greatest long distance racers of American and Canadian racing these three or four years. 1 My Dear is a little 900 pound mare, about 15 hands tall, but all muscle and grit. My Own is a strapping sixteen hand stallion, one of the comliest of the thoroughbred tribe. My Own was bought privately as a two-year-old, by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N., another Virginian, now one of the considerable producers of the Old Dominion. He did not race any, to speak of, until late last year and won one race at Laurel Park in October. My Own trained brilliantly in the spring for renewals of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakncss Stakes. The development of soreness in one of his forelegs prevented his starting in either the Preakness, which Vigil won, Zev suffering an ignominious defeat, or the Kentucky Derby revival which Zev won, beating Vigil handsomely. He did not appear under silks until August At Saratoga, in August, he won five straight races, beating in one the brilliant Bunting, four-jear-old star of the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, which had just won revivals of the Champlain and Merchants and Citizens Handicaps. Bunting, a Futurity winner at two years old, won renewals of the Havre de Grace and Maryland Handicaps at three, and was the contender behind Kai-Sang, another son of The Finn, in one of the most brilliant Lawrence Realization renewals in history. Since the finish of the Saratoga meeting My Own has won the National Trial Sweepstakes, a gallop of one mile and a half that was intended as an elimination contest between American colts for the honor of starting in the International race with Papyrus, and a renewal of the 0,000 Maryland Handicap. In the National Trial Sweepstakes he easily beat Untidy. In the Maryland Handicap renewal, a gallop of one mile and a quarter, he gave Spot Cash, New Hampshire, Cherry Pie", Ten Minutes, Gadfly, Dunlin and Golden Rule weight and a sound beating. He covered one mile and a quarter under 126 pounds, in 2:02, over the cuppiest race course of the east winning with something to spare.
