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DETROITS OFFER FOR CAVALCADE-EQUIPOISE RACE ♦ CONTEST AT ONE MILE • With 5,000 Added at Weight-tor* Age to Be Run Sept. 15. ♦ In Line With Suggestions of Trainer Bob Smith, Who Favors a Series of Three Instead of One Race. ♦ ■ DETROIT, Mich., July 25.— The Detroit Racing Association, which has been actively at work for some time on plans for bringing Cavalcade and Equipoise together for a final determination of the championship of the year, has begun to bring its plans to a finite basis. Immediately after the running of the Detroit Derby, which was won by Cavalcade, general manager Clarence E. Lehr made an announcement that he would be in the field for a race for the two outstanding horses in their* class. This was followed by a flood of offers from every direction, many of them absolutely impracticable because it has been definitely known that trainer R. E. Smith would not send his champion against horses of the older division until all of its definite engagements for the year, in its own class, had been completed. It is now definitely known that Cavalcade will not be available for any special until after the running of the Realization on September 8. Charles McLennan, racing secretary of the Detroit Racing Association, who has been at Arlington during the meeting there, has had several conferences with Mr. Smith, and a suggestion has come from this astute trainer, subject of course to approval of Mrs. Sloane, which the Detroit Racing Association has determined to accept. Through influential personal friends of Mrs. Sloane, the association has secured from her an expression that she would be delighted to have her champion run once more in her home town during the fall meeting. Smiths proposition is that instead of running one race, a series of three at a mile, a mile and a quarter, and a mile and a half, each with possibly 5,000 added, be run in different sections of the country. TRAINER HEALEY INTERESTED. Joseph A Murphy, director of racing, talked with trainer Thomas J. Healy over the phone at Lexington, where he is now visiting, yesterday morning and outlined the suggestion to him. He said he was very much interested in the proposition and would take the matter up at once with Mr. Whitney and Major Beard. He imparted the information that Equipoise was ready to be put back into active training. In line with the above suggestion, the De- troit Racing Association today made a defi- nite offer for a weight-for-age race at one mile, with 5,000 added, to be run Septem-, ber 15, with the understanding that Equi-i poise and Cavalcade were to be entered as starters. It has been thought best to make the race an open one and invite owners of other horses to compete, giving a second and third money as a sufficient inducement for such horses to start. Neither Cavalcade nor Equipoise have been accustomed to making pace, and a two-horse race between Continued on twenty-eighth page. 1 9 j I | , I . • I i • • , i 1
