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HANCOCK LEADS NOMINATORS Fred B. Koontz Is Runner-Up With Twenty-One Yearlings Named. Breeders Futurity of 1040 Attracts 412 Nominees Race to Have Initial Running This Fall. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 11 Arthur B. Hancock, who operates Americas largest thoroughbred nursery, led the field in making nominations to the 1940 Breeders Futurity at Keeneland race course. Nominations for the race closed September 15 with 412 horses which were foaled this year were entered by sixty-eight owners. Fred B. Koontz, Tulsa turfman, was runner-up in the number of horses entered. The southwestern sportsman, whose horses are kept at Military Stock Farm in the Blue Grass, nominated twenty-one weanlings. Warren Wright, owner of Calumet Farm and one of the countrys top racing stables, has eighteen youngsters eligible. John Hay Whitney nominated sixteen. Henry Knight and Thomas Piatt nominated fifteen each, and C. V. Whitney and Greentree Farm each put twelve into the event. Charlton Clay named eleven, and the following breeders nominated ten each: Col. E. R. Bradley, Brookmeade Farm, Coldstream Stud, Dixi-iana Farm, Arnold Hanger, Hal Price Head-ley and Mrs. John D. Hertz. 7,500 VALUE. The Breeders Futurity will have its initial running over the Keeneland track this fall. A field of between ten and fifteen two-year-olds is expected for the race which has an added value of ,000. Each starter must pay a fee of 00, and the event has an estimated value of 7,000. The Futurity will be the highlight of the entire "program. It will be run on closing day, Saturday, October 22, of Keenelands ten-day program starting Tuesday, October 11. Keenelands feature race of the 1940 spring meeting, the Blue Grass Stakes, also closed on September 15. Twenty-eight owners nominated 116 horses, now yearlings to that race. Greentree Farm and Dixiana Farm each nominated ten for the mile and one-eighth test which will be run shortly before the Kentucky Derby of that year and will serve as a final test for horses entered in the latter classic of American racing. Owners whose horses ran one-two in the 1938 Blue Grass Stakes, Warren Wright and H. P. Headley, each named eight horses for the 1940 running. C. V. Whitney nominated seven, and Colonel Bradley, Millsdale Stable, Shandon Farm and Joseph E. Widener named six each. Thirty-eight horses were kept eligible for the 1939 Blue Grass Stakes on September 15 when their owners made a payment of 0 each. The Blue Grass Stakes also has an added value of ,000.
