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SPECIAL RACE ABANDONED Epinard, Sarazen and Other Stars Will Not. Meet in Proposed Churchill Downs Race. LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 14. Any chance that there might have been of bringing Sarazen, Epinard and other crack horses together in a special race at the forthcoming Churchill Downs meeting was dispelled today when Gene Leigh, trainer of Epinard, announced that he had arranged to ship the French champion to Laurel Wednesday noon, where he will start in the two stakes for which he was nominated some time ago. Col. Winn, who was engineering the contemplated race at the Louisville track, abandoned the project when he found that Sarazen would not be returned west for the race. Epinards two engagements at Laurel will be in the Laurel Handicap at one mile and with an added money value of 0,000, which will be run next Saturday, and the "Washington Handicap, at one mile and a quarter and with an added money value of 5,000, to be decided November 1. The horse will also be seen under colors at the Pimlico meeting later on, according to trainer Leigh. In the Laurel stakes Epinard will not clash with Sarazen, as the latter is not eligible to that stake, but the pair will hook up in the Washington Handicap. Regarding Epinards future, trainer Leigh stated that the liorse will be returned to France some time in November. Owner Wertheimer had received a number of flattering offers for the purchase of the horse, all of which he declined; "Wriile E. R. Bradley was not one of the number seeking to secure possession of Epinard, he did make an offer to trainer Leigh to allow the horse to winter at Idle Hour Farm, free of cost to his owner, and for Leigh to take up the horse in the spring without any obligation to Bradley. The latter is of the opinion that if Epinard was permitted to spend the winter in this country and given full opportunity to become acclimated that next spring he would be invincible as a racer.
