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s i c i . i j SPEEDY RIALTO DESTROYED Greentree Stable Loses Valuable Horse After Months Illness. Son of Chicle Matinee Was Regarded as One of the Fastest Juveniles of 1922. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 20. Rialto, the four-year-old bay son of Chicle and Matinee, by Broomstick, the property of the Greentree Stable, was destroyed at Belmont Park Thurs day, Rialto had been desperately sick for the past month and, on the advice of Dr. R. W. McCully, was destroyed when no hope could be held out for his recovery. During Rialtos rwo-ycar-old form, trainer James Rowc was much impressed with the colt, and often stated that he was one of the fastest juveniles that he ever trained. Rialto was returned a winner his first start, which was at Saratoga, in a five and a half fur-j longs race, for maiden two-year-olds. He J was an odds-on choice and won in a drive i from Boys Believe Me, Cape Clear and six others. Jockey McAtee rode him. His next j race, in the Saratoga Special, he finished un- j placed, and, in his next finished second to 1 his stable companion, Blue Peter, at Havre j de Grace. Bialto was a starter in the Pirn-1 lico Futurity and finished fourth to Sallys Alley, Martingale and My Own. j Bialto began his three-year-old career j brilliantly, and was returned a winner of the Southern Handicap, at Pimlico. He trained well for the Preakness, and trainer Rowe started two in the race, Rialto and Chick-vale. Rialto finished third to Vigil and General Thatcher, and beat Chickvale by a head in a hard drive. TO DOWNS FOJt DEItUY. Rialto was then shipped to Louisville ano. started in the Derby, in which he finished seventh, closing a big gap from a slow beginning. Jn the running of the Belmont Stakes he finished third to Zev and Chick-vale, but beat Messenger. Martingale, Hyperion, All American and Miss Smith. Rialto proved a disappointment in the renewal of the Latonia Derby, in which race he went to the post favorite. He assumed the lead through the final quarter, but gave way under punishment and finished fourth. During his three-year-old year Rialto was winner of four races, the most important of which was the tenh renewal of the Washington Handicap, at Laurel, at one and a quarter miles. In this race the son of Chicle galloped over his opponents, to win with ease and earn 4,250 for his owner. Rialto began his four-year-old career with the running of the Dixie Handicap, in which he finished eleventh. He was then shipped to Jamaica and accounted for the Excelsior Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, leading Sunsini, Zev, Mad Hatter, Prince James and Dunlin to the end, after a hard drive. That was Rialtos last winning performance, and he wound up the year finishing last in the Yorktown Handicap, at Empire City, during the fall meeting.
