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SORTEADO IS HIGHLY RATED Classed as Best Horse Which Raced in Argentina in 1938. Howard Said to Have Paid 0,000 for South American Star Accompanied to U. S. by Don Mike. SAN BRUNO, Calif., Dec. 17. When Charles "Seasbiscuit" Howard bought Sortr eado he acquired the "Stagehand of South America." You will see Sorteado on the nomination lists for the 00,000 handicap at Santa Anita and for the Widener Cup in Florida. Hes the fellow thats supposed to step into Seabiscuits boots when that horse has finally reached the zenith meaning first place on the American money list. Sorteado cost 0,000 a huge price in South America. Far and away the best horse which has travelled to the UnitedStates from the Argentine. He was the best young horse in South America. He was placed aboard a steamer for his ride to New York when in the top of form. No less than a" month ago Sorteado was acclaimed by 150,000 spectators champion of the Argentine, victor in the Gran Premio Nacional, 100,000 pesos classic of the South American turf. NOTABLE TRIUMPH. Gran Premio Nacional, a 2,500 meters race about one and one-half miles exclusively for three-year-olds, staged annually at Palermo, the big Buenos Aires course found Sorteado ridden by Argentines Sande, jockey Elias Antunez, pounding the turf in a manner to assert complete control over a good band, including Piquet and Profundo, the outstanding horses in the country. Sorteados advent into the American racing, promises to be an occurrence that may well be compared to the invasion of Phar Lap and the American campaign of the French champion, Epinard. Sorteado did not sail the bounding seas alone. On the steamer one of the big liners formerly on the New York-San Francisco run Sorteado had as a bunk mate, Don Mike, a stake horse of parts. Don Mike belongs to Messrs. Lin Howard and Bing Crosby, their latest purchase and joins on the Pacific Coast Ligaroti, Comet II., Olimpo. and Sabueso. Except Don Mike he is supposed Continued on twenty-second page. SORTEADO IS HIGHLY RATED Continued from first page. to be a better horse than any South American now wearing Binglin colors. Don Mike, one year older than Sorteado, ran in the 1937 Derby and -other stellar attractions "Down There." Setting all the pace in the Derby he yielded in the end to the filly Quematia. His record is better than that of Ligaroti, which was not a classic winner, though a superb miler and not a stayer. Ligaroti learned how to stay since reaching America, thanks to different training methods adopted by Jimmy Smith, the younger. NOW A FOUR-YEAR-OLD. Since reams will shortly be written concerning Sorteado, it might be well to say, he reaches the United State a four-year-old. Three-year-old in the Argentine. He lost a year in crossing the equator. He is a son of Tresiete, from Sentina. Tresiete, one of the blooded monarchs of the South American breeding industry, is a son of Alan Breck, a Sunstar horse. Sunstar, English horse, sent his offspring to all parts of the world. In the spread of migrating offspring Sun Briar reached the United States. Alan Breck reached Argentine. Sentina, dam of Sorteado, is by Fisherman and takes you to Orange, Orbit, Neapolis, Springfield, French sire Saumur, and a lot of others which mean little to the American blood student.
