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! Here and There on the Turf Racing Interest in Kentucky. Sale of the Ryan Stable. Cochran Engages Duke, i Laurels Opening Feature, i j Much of the vital racing interest has moved to the Latonia course of the Kentucky Jockey jClub. The candidates for the third Interna-itional Special, to be run there on October 11, Iwith the exception of Mrs. Yanderbilts Sarazen, jarc on tha Ecene and making ready for that titanic struggle. The two races that have fgone before were brilliant spots in turf history and each will be long remembered, but it is j admitted that the greatest of the three races ijhat induced Pierre Werthsimer to send his ! champion, Epinard, to this country is still to be decided. The mile and a quarter dash is the supreme test and all indications are that lit will overshadow the other two events. The success of both the three-quarters dash at Bel-Imont Park and the mile race at Aqueduct exceeded the fondest hopes of the sportsmen who brought about the international series and in each the contest was such as to leave a doubt of the undisputed champion. While there are two legs on the championship against Epinard, the son of Badajoz and Epine Blanche raced so magnificently on each 1 occasion that he gained many supporters and i will go to the post on October 11 with a much greater following than he did on either of the other occasions. He has measured up to the 1 championship standard and he glorious de-. feats have only served to prove his greatness. !He has not enjoyed the best of luck in the two races that have already been run and Imany good judges who watched both races have insisted that with better racing fortune he would have won bath. In a race of a mile and a quarter the invader will have a much better chance to overcome any difficulties in the running that may Iconic his way and it is a route that is an infinitely better one to tell of racing stamina. Both Epinard and Ladkin, his most recent conqueror, have arrived safely at the Kentucky course and haye gone through light exer-Icise. Each is ready for the word, and the various others, that will be seen under colors ihavc been going alpng in a manner that has ibesn more than satisfactory. It is interesting to know that the turf is ;not to lose Thomas Fortune Ryan. In the i early announcement of the gale of the horses i of the Oak Ridge Stable, it appeared that there was to be a complete dispersal of the thoroughbred interests of the Virginia sports- maa There will be a sale of the horses in train-! ing, as announced, but Mr. Ryan will continue on the turf and. hp will continue his breeding farm in Nelson County, Virginia. It is the ! intention to send some home ho.rseq to England, where Mr. Ryan also maintains a racking stable, and it only means tha.t he will devote more time and energy to the English turf. The sale of the horses in training, which promises to be one of tile most important i thoroughbred transactions of the year, will be conducted by the Thoroughbred Sales Company, with George Bain officiating as the. auctioneer. This sale was arranged by Charles. ;F. Hill, Friday, and within a short time is. j. to, be conducted at the Jamaica race cours;, Wednesday, October 15. Laurano, winner pf the Metropolitan Handicap Apprehension,, for a time a thrcc-ycar-plol that measured up., to ; the top class; Plough Boy; the two-year-olJ, Idiosyncrasy; the fast jumper Isis; John S. Mosby, Faenza, and others make the sale of importance, and, as the good ones are all well engaged, there is sure to. be lively competition when the bidding is invited. The horses are all ready tp race and there are still opportunities enough to make purchases good investments. William Duke is to come to this country and train, for. Gilford A. Cochran. The return of this veteran trainer is an event of importance in this, country. Mr. Duke has, been abroad for so long that he is not well known by the present generation of turfmen but he has met with such a full measure of success in France that he is sure to be right up in front with the Cochran string. There has been, no more liberal patron of the turf than Mr. Ccchran, as was evidenced when ha paid 4.0,0001 fpr six yearlings purchased from Edward F. Simms in the 1923 sale. The same year he paid 1,000 for a son cf The Finn and Princess M.ary. This, colt, Flying Ebony, has not exactly justified his high price, but he has. wo,n w;elL These are. only a few of the big pric;s. that have been paid by Mr. Cochran. He has always, been in the market for the best available and money has never stopped him in his purchases. Such liberal buying is entitled to racing results and ip. the selection of WilUam Duke to train his horses, Mr. Cochran continues his policy of always obtaining the best that the market affords. Weights have been announced for the Capital Handicap, winch is to feature the opening of the Laurel meeting Tuesday, This is a three-quarters dash, for three-year-olds and over, tp which ,000 is added. It is, rather unusual, but three-year-olds top, the list, giving away both weight and age to the others. It is Sarazen that is at the top with 134 as his burden, while August Belmonts Ladkin, conqueror Epinard, is in under 132 pounds. But both Sarazen and Ladkin are at Latonia, making ready for the third International, and they will hardly be through with that all important engagement in time to make Laurel and tho Capital Handicap. N,ext in the list is the Rancocas Stables Zev, under 130 pounds, and under that impost he concedes, three pounda to, the greatly improved Swingalom. Vorthmpre an4 Snob H. are at tho samo notch, 123 pounds, and then come. Shufflo Along an4 Wilderness, at 124 pouncb each. Gpshawk and Osprey are held at 122 pounds each, and that completes the list of those that are required to takp up weight in excess of 120 pounds. It is a particularly fleet band of sprinters that is engaged in the Capital Handicap, and, even wth the tppweights busily engaged in Kentucky, the race cannot fail to be a notable renewal. Already several of the stables that raced through the lew York season haye been shipped tp. the Maryland course, while there is a general exodus of those that began the Maryland racing with the Ha.vre de Grace meeting, which came to. a close with the card of Saturday. Breeders are reminded that nominations for the Pimlico Futurity of 1927 are to close with tho Maryland Jockey Club on November 10. While this Pimlico Futurity is a. rich race ?f comparatively recent date, it at once took a front place among the big raqes for two-year-olds. It is oyer a mile and, is a race to which, the Maryland Jockey Club adds 0,000 annually. The enhance fee js 0, aid it, is slpsing; a tliis tirje foir mares bred this, year, their produce thus becoming eligible for the. 1927 race
