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: -c HONOR EPINARDS OWNER Col. Matt Winn Presents Pierre Wertheimer with Gold Plate as Souvenir of Visit to Kentucky. LATONIA, Ky., Oct 11. The .directors of the Kentucky Jockey Club entertained Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard, at a breakfast given in the Latonia clubhouse at noon today. President J. N. Camden presided and general manager M. J. Winn, on behalf of the Kentucky Jockey Club, presented Mr. Wertheimer with a gold plate, suitably inscribed, as a souvenir of his visit to Kentucky. Mr. Wertheimer, in a response full of feeling, spoke his appreciation of the courtesies shown, assuring his hosts that the sincerity of their welcome touched him deeply. The list of guests included the officers and directors of the Kentucky Jockey Club, the members of the state racing commission and August Belmont, chairman or tho Jockey Club. Col. Winn, in a brief address of welcome, said: "The directors of the Kentucky Jockey Club have assigned me the pleasant duty of welcoming to Kentucky our distinguished guest, Mr. Pierre Wertheimer, of Paris, France, the proud owner of Epinard. We want him to understand that his presence here honors us as Kentuckians, for he measures up to the very highest type of sportsmen, and he has brought to our state the noblest thoroughbred that Europe has produced in many years. It was no holiday journey for Mr. Wertheimer to come from across the ocean, cutting all business and social ties, to have his great horse meet, in a series of three races at varying distances, the stars of the American turf. He did not ask to have any selected champion pitted against Epinard. He came ready to meet any and all comers, agreeing to every condition imposed, asking no favors and taking his chances with the climate and the weather. "Mr. Belmont, Mr. Shevlin and myselr wroto the contract and framed the conditions which made possible this remarkable series of international races and I want to say, in frankness that Mr. Wertheimer did not have any the best of it He promptly signed the agreement, asking no change or modification. Continued on ninth page. HONOR EPINARDS OWNER Continued from first page. He proved himself, what the world knows him to be, a true sportsman. It is further due Mr. Wertheimer to say that no private or secret agreements were suggested or entered into. He brought his horse, his .trainer and his jockey all the way from France, entirely at his own expense, disrupting his extensive stable on the other side that Epinard might measure merits with our best thoroughbreds. "We are doubly glad to have him with us, and in extending an old-fashioned Kentucky welcome, I have the pleasure of presenting him this souvenir of his visit. In the years to come, in his home across the seas, it will remind him that he has made friends hero who will always watch his career with interest, and who will wish him a continuation of the turf triumphs that have brought him into national fame. "Kentucky is the home of the thoroughbred, and we know one when we see him. I propose a rising toast to our distinguished guest."
