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I ] [ i i 3 r . 1 -1 | I i t 3 j . j! t t , t j i if| ■ f I 5 l| I J ] ■ 3| J P.I A A i . j f -» 1 : i i. k t MATCH RACE FOR 0,000 | | . Omaha Offers Big Sum for Match Race Between Black Gold and Runs tar at One Mile. , OMA-HA, Neb., May 21. — In an endeavor to arrange a match race between Black Gold, i winner of the Louisiana and Kentucky Derbies, and Runstar, winner of the Coffroth Handicap, decided at Tijuana last March, telegrams were dispatched today by the Ak-t _ Sar-Ben Exposition Company, offering a ] stake of 0,000 for a race at one mile, to be decided here Saturday, June 21. Mr. Spreckels, who bred Runstar at his Napa Stock Farm, always contended that the Coffroth winner was a better horse than Morvich, and felt that his judgment was s vindicated when Runstar defeated a great t aggregation of runners in the rich Tijuana 1 race. Runstar, in winning the Coffroth Han- " dicap, in which he defeated Osprey and ■ Cherry Tree, really turned in a remrakable e : performance. Never having been asked to 3 I race further than three-quarters, Runstar, I which had been in temporary retirement,1 ! was actually pointed for the race in the e i i unheard of short time of two weeks. In his I race in the Coffroth, although far from a 1 dead fit horse, he made all his own pace L j and survived one of the most desperate duels s to win that has been witnessed on any race e course. At the present time Runstar is located at t ; j[Tanforan, Cal., and inasmuch as Mr. Spreckels . ] has voiced his intentions of sending his s crack horse east to defend his laurels, it is s quite probable that, splendid sportsman that t j he is, he may accept the liberal offer wired J him by the Ak-Sar-Ben Kxpcsition Company. "William Dondas, who has been at Churchill [1 Downs in the interests of the forthcoming g ! Ak-Sar-Ben meeting, which will be inaugurated - | here Saturday, May 31, has wired racing secretary "has. L. Trimble to make e Mrs. Hoots an offer to raw: her • two-time Derby winner here. Evidently Dondas has s some intimation that Mrs. Hoots would not t be adverse to sending Black Gold to Omaha, l, if the inducements were of sufficient monc - tary value. |
