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j IDENTIFY GAILMONT AS FAMOUS AKNAHTON 1 - .4 MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 24. It has been established that the horse which ran as Gailmont at Hialeah Park Tuesday is none other than Aknahton, which was used as a ringer with more profitable returns during the fall season of racing at Havre de Grace. Identification was made by W. J. McKnight of George Odoms staff, who knew the horse thoroughly when he was in the Odom stable. He was also identified by jockey Harold Thurber, who rode for Odom and had ridden Aknahton. During the night, while the horse was kept under surveillance by.vorder of the stewards, dye that had been used to change the markings was coming off to an extent that proved an effort had been made to change his appearance. In the meantime, Willis Kane, in whose name the horse raced, seems to have disappeared. In any event he could not be located. A. F. Tavener, trainer of the horse, was insistent that the horse, as far as he knows, is Gailmont, which he saw racing at Agua Caliente and which was turned over to him by Kane some three weeks ago. Gailmont is described as a three-year-old son of Gayly and Zenda, while Aknahton is a four-year-old. When Aknahton was used as a "ringer" at Havre de Grace last fall, he was a three-year-old and raced with two-year-olds. On that occasion he was winner. The fraud failed at Hialeah Park, for, while the horse was permitted to go to the post, he was well beaten after having been heavily backed to beat a cheap band of selling platers. Later in the day George Odom, who had Aknahton for a considerable time, after looking at the horse, said that he had the conformation of Aknahton, but he could not make a positive identification by reason of the dye that had been used to alter his color and his markings. Incidentally, the horse was so badly lamed in the running that it is doubtful if he will ever be raced again, either as Aknahton or as a "ringer." Possibly his going lame was the only reason the attempted fraud did not succeed. Aknahton is a chestnut colt four-year-old, and his markings are a stripe, white left fore pastern, white right fore ankle, and white ankles, behind. Gailmont is a chestnut colt three-year-old. His markings are a long stripe, wide at the top, narrowing in the center and widening and ending between the nostrils. He has a white spot in the ; center of his lower lip. His left front ankle 1 is white, being higher in back.
