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FORMIDABLE RIVALS Eastern Horsemen After Rich Kentucky Turf Prizes. ยป To Send Their Best Fillies to Contest for Kentucky and Latonia Oaks. LOCISVILLE, Ky.. April 12- Eastern horsemen are going to give their brethren of the western fraternity a brisk argument in the coming renewals of the Kentucky and Latonia Oaks, the Kentucky Jockey Clubs 0,000 added money races of one mile and an eighth and one mile and a quarter respectively, for three-year-old fillies. Western ownership will be formidably represented in both races by Edward Riley Bradleys Blue Warbler and Beach Talk and E. Gay Drakes Sweep Park and others. Sweep Park, daughter of Sweep and Floral Park, showed dazzling form last spring and summer in the Clipsctta Stakes and the Cincinnati Trophy at LatOQia. Her performance in the Cincinnati Trophy, a 0,000 race for youngsters of both sexes, was highly meritorious. She took up 124 pounds and ran the three-quarters in 1:11%, in front of the colts Bill Strap, Lee O. Cotner. Flying Ebony. Pas Seul. Betelgeuse. Brave Bob and Kublai Khan. She was packing weight for sex with Pas Seul. She gave weight to all the others. Her failure in the Belmont Park Futurity, for which she worked splendidly, is not held against her by eastern students of form. BLUE WARBLER A STAR. Blue Warbler, daughter of North Star III. and May Bird, made a decidedly favorable impression at Saratoga when she won the Spinaway. beating Maihird, Lightship. Mother Goose, Royalite. Swinging, Maid at Arms, Kitty Pat and Etoile dOr. When in September she took up 137 pounds and licked Swinging, Martha Martin. Superlette. Hearth Broom and Lightship in the Matron Stakes she convinced all and sundry that she was about the best youngster of her sex about. She might have won the Belmont Park Futurity, in which Mother Goose defeated Stimulus. Single Foot, Nedana and some eighteen or twenty others, if she had been eligible and started. Unluckily she had been declared from the richest of American produce races as a yearling. Beach Talk, a daughter of Sundridge and Miss Ronald, did right well at Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds through the winter and seems to be improving. She should get considerably better. She had little racing last year. She is still green and inexperienced. But there is plenty of quality among the eastern-owned Oaks aspirants, whose two-year-old form entitles their pretensions to serious consideration. Harry Payne Whitney has Mother Goose, Maud Muller. Swinging and Elf from which to pick a candidate or candidates. Harry F. Sinclair lias Nedana; William Woodward. Beatrice: H. S. Hart. Martha Martin : Walter J. Salmon. Trip Lightly and Primrose : Edward Beale McLean. Slow and Easy: Marshall Field. Enslaved; Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Sutitess : Howard M. Maxwell. Brown Betty; William R. Cue. Maibird, and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Lightship. WHITNEYS RACK QFAKTFTTF. James Rowe did not know last year which of four of the crack fillies of the stable of Harry Hayne Whitney were the best. Mother Goose, Swinging. Maud Muller and Elf looked about alike and Mother Cor.se beat most of the crack colts of the East. Stimulus and Single Foot among them, in the Belmont Park Futurity. They are all training well this spring and Elf, a daughter of Chicle and Wendy, may get to the post in the Kentucky Derby. Nedana, daughter 0f ti1P French Derby winner Negofol sire of Tchad, another French Derby winner, also, of Flechois and Hourless, and Adana. was easily the most capable youngster of either s -x Samuel . Hildreth developed for Harry F. Sinclair. Nedana ran creditably in the Belmont Iark Futurity, beside winning five or six other races. If there is one three-year-old of her sex sure to go on this year, provided, of course, she trains satisfactorily, Nedana is that filly. Beatrice, daughter of Jim Gaffney and Medora. is a half sister of Little Chief, a Ti avers Stakes. Brooklyn Handicap and Tijuana Cup winner. She looked all over a comer at Belmont Park in September when she defeated the colts Goldbeater, Star Lore, Cloudland, Reminder, Blue Ridge, Extreme, PccaatJCO and Dangerous in a renewal of the Champagne Stakes. Nor did Beatrice appear any worse at Aqueduct a fortnight later when she whipped Senalado. Peanuts, Extreme. Cloudland and Extra Dry in a revival of the Oakdale Handicap, She won both the Champagne and Oakdale in heavy going. Mr. Woodward, the breeder of Beatrice, won the Kentucky Oaks of lfcl with Nancy Lee and the Latonia Oaks of the same year with Flambette. Flambette defeated Mr. Bradleys Bit of White, another daugh- tuntiuucil oa second pace. FORMIDABLE RIVALS Continued from first page. ter of North Star III., and much the same sort of horse as Blue Warbler. Martha Martin, a daughter of Sir Martin, showed encouraging form about New York last fall and recently ran a good second to Hedgefenee in the Tijuana Derby. Primrose and Triplightly, both daughters of Ultimus, the last named being a sister of Steplightly, Belmont Park Futurity winner of 1920, were about the best youngsters that bore the salmon jacket in 1924. Primrose disclosed long-distance running ability in the Walden and Endurance handicaps, 0,000 races of one mile for two-year-olds, decided in Maryland in November. Primrose finished third in the Walden, fourth in the Endurance. In both races she revealed more stamina than j did some of the best colts. Battlefield, i Senelado, Courageous, Candy Kid, Cloud-| land, Campfire Tales and By Hisself finished behind her in the Walden : Brims, Cloudland, Dangerous, By Hisself, Single Foot. Camp-fire Tales, Judge Fuller and Laddie Buck in the Endurance. Slow and Easy, Sun Tess, Enslaved. Brown Betty. Superlette, Extra Dry and Maibinl hardly raced as creditably as the fillies whose careers have just been analyzed, but all showed enough to warrant the suspicion that any might climb out of the ruck and into the first flight this year. Priscilla Ruley, j one of the best long-distance running fillies ! of last year, an Alabama winner, began at Jamaica last May a three-year-old maiden. Princess Doreen, another star, lacked a lot Of being one of the crack fillies of the year 1923.
