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TWO FORMER WINNING OWNERS Mose Goldblatt and James W. Par- rish Sent Successful Horses to Post in Kentucky Handicap. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20.— Two owners who have won the historic Kentucky Handicap will be represented in the field when that rich event is revived for its twentieth running, and the first since 1931 here at Churchill Downs next Saturday. They are Mose Goldblatt, veteran turfman of Cincinnati, and James W. Parrish, banker of Midway, Ky., whose colors have been active on the turf for many years. In Saturdays race, which will carry ,000 in added money and engage a strong field at one mile and a furlong, Goldblatts silks will be carried by the five-year-old gelding Dnieper, while Parrishs representative will be the three-year-old Knee Deep. Back in 1919, Parrish won the prize with Midway, one of the best performers to race under his popular terra cotta and stone-colored silks. Four years later the Kentucky Handicap honors went to Goldblatt, his successful standard bearer being Cherry Tree. Midways victory was worth 1,300, while Cherry Tree took down 1,450. SHORTER DISTANCE. The distance this year is a furlong less than was negotiated by each of the previous nineteen winners from 1913 to 1931 inclusive, and the first six runnings took place at the old Douglas Park track. From 1913 to 1923 inclusive, it was run as the Kentucky Handicap, but from 1924 to 1931 as the Grainger Memorial, in memory of Charles F. Grainger, former president of Churchill Downs was honored. Besides Dnieper and Knee Deep, scheduled starters Saturday include Zevson, runner-up to War Admiral in the Widener Challenge Cup, Arabs Arrow, double stakes winner during the present meeting; Mars Shield, Military, Mucho Gusto, Eagle Pass, Broadway, Josh, Royal Sortie, Crossbow II., and one or two others.
