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NO LONGER SEND CASTOFFS Winter Tracks Now Attract Best Horses in Racing. War Admiral, Lawrin, Inscoelda, Seabiscuit and War Minstrel Among Last Winters Campaigners. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 19. Winter racing has definitely . taken its place in the sun and this phrase is not intended as a pun to glorify Floridas balmy weather, which does things to horses, as veteran Hialeah Park conditioners will affirm. No more do owners send their castoffs to the winter courses. Richly endowed stakes and valuable overnight purses have changed all this. Now all the great thoroughbreds of the year come from far and near to compete under sunny skies. . There is little doubt but that proper winter conditioning has been responsible for so many thoroughbreds in recent years going on to greater fame and glory in the spring and summer campaigns. Those few stables which cling to old-fashioned ideas of retiring particularly those wintering in the cold spots, have been getting much the worst of it when returning such horses to belated conditioning in the spring. Joseph E. Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club, always has been a firm be-i liever in the thought that yearlings and two-year-olds thrive unusually well in the warm climates. "It always has been my pet theory," Mr. Widener stated, "that if the tropical sunshine is good for man it mtist be good for beast." OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE. This past year has been an outstanding example of what winter-raced thoroughbreds are capable of doing when continuing their spring and summer campaigns. Glancing through the Florida record book, Samuel D. Riddles War Admiral appears a mighty boost for winter racing. War Admiral, after capturing the 0,000 added Widener Challenge Gup, a victory which he will try to duplicate at Hialeah on Saturday, March 4, went on to win the Queens County Handicap at Jamaica, The Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont, the Saratoga Handicap, Whitney Stakes and Wilson Stakes at Saratoga and Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett. Another brilliant example is Herbert M. Woolfs Lawrin, which rose to fame in the 0,000 added Flamingo and "Hialeah Stakes and then moved on to win the Kentucky Derby and Hollywood American Invitational three-year-old championship. Bourbon King raced at Hialeah and moved on to win, among others, the Cheseapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace. Charlotte Girl was an outstanding filly development, winning seven in a row before being defeated. The fleet miss scored in the Nursery Stakes at Hialeah, Pimlico Nursery, Bowie Kindergarten and Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace. Cravat showed his heels in the Jerome Handicap at Belmont and the Yankee Handicap at Suffolk Downs. Honey Cloud ran a dead heat for first in the Prince George Autumn Handicap at Bowie, won the W. P. Burch Memorial at the same course and the Ritchie Handicap at Pimlico. CHAMPION JUVENILE FILLY. Inscoelda, which made her racing debut at Hialeah last January 12, was voted the champion two-year-old filly of the country by Daily Racing Form and other turf handi-cappers. Included in her most important victories were the Arlington Lassie Stakes at Chicago and the Walden at Pimlico. Lavengro captured the Bahamas at Hialeah and later the Susquehanna Handicap at Havre de Grace and a dead heat for first in the Providence Handicap at Narragansett. Mucho Gusto, "Old Ironsides," needs no introduction. He won the Governors Handicap and Motor City Handicap at Detroit and the Kentucky Handicap at Churchill Downs. Mythical King scored in the Shevlin Stakes at Aqueduct. War Minstrel trounced Seabiscuit in the 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap at Arlington Park. There were others besides these which flourished on winter racing and the number has been equally as large in past years, to Include Seabiscuit, which went to the post for the first time at Hialeah Park on January 19, 1935, as a two-year-old. ; .
