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After Another Rich Kentucky Prize ! j i j i : NEW YORK, N. T., Nov. 7. Having taken first and second money in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs in 1920 with Tryster and Grey Lag and repeated that stunt last year with Enchantment and Picketer, both of which bore the silks of Harry Payne Whitney, the owner in 1920 of Tryster, the East will make a formidable bid for the big end of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes renewal this year. A gallop of one mile, the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes annually have a value of about 5,000. In three short years this special has not only become Kentuckys most interesting and popular two-year-old race, but one of the most attractive of all American racing. In countrywide popularity it has taken rank with the Hopeful at Saratoga and the Belmont and Maryland Futurities. It has been the inspiration of the 510,000 Junior Champion and the ,000 Ardsley Handicap, Aqueducts and Yonkers mile dashes for two-year-olds. Eastern students, of the form concede the " formidableness of Wise Counsellor, winner of the Cincinnati Trophy and the Queen City Handicap, also of Worthmore, the son of Thunderer, which won the Breeders Futurity at Lexington. Students of blood lines are rooting that Wise Counsellor may race on brilliantly over big distances and qualify for service at the stud, because, through him the almost extinct male thoroughbred line of Hanovers, Hindoo, Virgil and Vandal may be restored to American thoroughbreds production. ! Wise Counsellor goes back to Hanover through Mentor Blackstock. Blackstock, his granddad, a son of Hanover and Mannie Mim-yar, was bred like Hamburg. But Wise Counsellor will have six or seven formidable eastern colts to beat if he is to add the winners end of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes purse to the bank account of that sagacious veteran Kentucky horseman, J. S. Ward. Prospective opponents of his at Churchill Downs November 17, are Mr. Mutt and Fabian, winners of the Junior Champion Inaugural and the Ardsley Handicap; Sun-fiag and Sunspero of the stable of Gifford A. Cochran ; Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Diogenes, winner of the Hopeful at Saratoga; Willis Sharpe Kilmers Mint Briar,, son of Assagai and Svveetbriar a half brother of Sun Briar, and winner of the Kenne Memorial Revival at Belmont Park last spring; Transmute, winner of the Hudson and Tremont Stakes; Sun Pal, Mad Play, Sheridan, Hourmorc, Bracadale, Happy Thoughts, Aga Khan, etc. Sarazen, ten times winner of the stable of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, does not happen to bo eligible. It is just as well for the other eligibles he is not, also for the stake. Max Hirsch, trainer of this unbeaten gelding, has declared that he believes Sarazen capable of beating at one mile, weight or age, any horse of any age that has appeared in racing this year. Possibly he is right. The circumstance that Edward F. Simms Happy Thoughts, a daughter of Sir Martin and Gypsy Love, was licked by Sarazen in a match race of three-quarters at Laurel Park should not prejudice her chance at Louisville November 17. Kentuckians will see a runner of the Artful sort when Happy Thoughts strips. She is speed all over and a splendid type physically. There is plenty of her. She races close to the ground and fast. That she will go on a mile when she has no Sarazen to tiptoe her no man who has seen her race doubts. Possibly the slow going through which Sarazen and Happy Thoughts raced at Laurel Park handicapped her. It did not handicap Sarazen, which had previously demonstrated a decided liking for racing through muddy going. Fabian, son of Ballot arid Inspiration, is a half brother of Startle, the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes winner of 1921. Fred Taral, acting for Victor Vivadou, bought Fabian from the H. H. Hewitt estate last spring. Given plenty of time he has developed a formidable long-distance running talent and bids fair, because he has not been overworked, to make a first-rate three-year-olds. Fabian won the Ardsley Handicap away off and easily. Mr. Mutt, a son of Ballot and Eden Hall, one of the costly yearling buys of the year before last, was in this Ardsley Handicap with Fabian. Possibly he is the better of the two. He was trying to give Fabian eight pounds and pack little Merimee, one of the lightest jockeys of the metropolitan circuit Sluggish always, Mr. Mutt is a horse for a rider of the Sande type. Light boys cannot keep him up in the first half-mile of his races.. With the energetic Thurber on his back in the Junior Champion Mr. Mutt was never far from the pace and he raced easily over Bracadale, Sun Pal, Stanwix, Aga Khan and McAuliffe in the long Aqueduct homestretch. Mr. Mutt will go far next year if it does not develop that he was trained too early and too hard last spring, as Cartoonist, a splendid son of Celt and Honey Bee of the Mutt and Jeff Stable, to which he belongs, had. been a year ago last spring. Mr. Mutt is being pointed for the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. He and the other members of his outfit will go into winter quarters at either Churchill Downs or Douglas Park after the running of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Possibly Mr. Mutt will prove the most formidable of Wise Counsellors eastern opponents November 17. Diogenes, still another son of Ballot this has been a great year for Ballot two-year-olds is home bred. Mrs. .Jeffords, Philadelphias leading horsewoman, owns Smoky Lamp, his dam, and mated Smoky Lamp with Ballot on her own account. Sihoky Lamp is a near relative of King James, whose fame as a racer has been brought out of oblivion this year by the brilliant performances of his My Own and his daughter My Dear. Diogenes hasnt been abused as young horses that discover such speed as he revealed in the early spring are apt to be. If he is not a long distance runner he is nothing else. His performance in the Hopeful at Saratoga was amazingly good. Away last and on the outside and taken up in the first fifty yards to prevent his boring in and piling up three or four of his opponents, he was racing last and on the outside at the turn out of the backstretch. He made the widest circuit of the fifteen starters in the bend. As he straightened for the run down the homestretch, Diogenes was fifty yards behind the pace. But he raced down the middle of the track and won and one of the youngsters he licked was St. James, the son of Ambassador, that afterward won the Belmont Park Futurity. Ordinance, a son of Ormondale and Dona Roca, a colt bred on the female side like Don de Oro, Deldame and War Pennant, will be August Belmonts starter if the chairman of the Jockey Club holds to his original plan of sending something out the week after next. Ordinance looked mighty good at Aqueduct in a gallop of three-quarters in which he raced easily away from Sherman, Samaritan and Mr. Mutt. Ordinance does not pick up as quickly in sprints of five furlongs and a half and three-quarters as does his handsome stable companion, Ladkin. But he comes on stoutly in the homestretch. Sun Pal, a son of Sun Briar and My Friend, is a mare of the family of Maskette, Donald Macdonald, Kinleydale, etc., looks like the best long distance runner of the baby sons of Sun Briar now in training. Under 117 pounds he was the contender in the Ardsley Handicap. He was giving Fabian ten pounds and he beat Sting, the crack colt of the Butler stable, and Mr. Mutt, Sun Pal is owned by Lee Rosenberg, a New Yorker who has put about 00,000 in thoroughbreds of racing age in the course of the last year.
