The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-08
OFF FOR MACON
LOCAL HORSES LEAVE FOE
 THAT CITY.
Alabama, Sunshine, Butts Kohn and Annie Caffey Sent to Represent Montgomery-Match Race Made
 Between Two of Them.

Between Two of Them.
 Sunday night the local horses that are to be entered in the Macon races were lc aded in a palace horse car at hiversioe ? of them-Major Smiths speedy Allmont ;mare Alabama, MT. Gersons fast Hal horse Butts Kohn, Mir. Webbers Hal horse. Sunshine, and MT. Newell s Lore Macon opens tomorrow and if these horses are trimmed up over there some marks will get extremely low. Alabama for ali pace. That she can hold her own l in the 2:l4 pace was shown last Friday | at Riverside. The free-for-all pace will be the big race over there and there will ago, however, I saw Alabama work I mile in 2:11 flat, and she was not driven out then. Now if she can do her mile in Il in common workout what can she do if extended in a bruising race? Sun shine seems to have things coming his | way by being entered in 2:24 class pace | Of course overy horse in that race will speed that MT. Webber's black horse has shown several times at Riverside he ought to go under 2:16 anyway It all depends however. on how he works with | the hobbies. He is inclined to be bit cratic and if notion to get up in the air enters that handsome head of his, why he just breaks and that's all there Is to it. Butts Kohn is entered in the 2:l9 class and when he paced that wonderful 2.4 4-5 heat at Riverside Friday 1t looked | to be plain that he could have gone fas- ter than that if urged. Annie Caney 1o also in the z:ly class and the daushser m her ter than any of the string. Last sum mer the mare was campaigned all over the grand circuit and on several occa. sions she was only beaten short head in a mark of 2:11 All in all the local horses should give an excellent account of themselves and they have the best wishes of Montgomery lovers os A racing; ,,S a number of Montgomery gentlemen lett for Macon and will stay in that city un- til the close of the meeting.
 1t will be good news to everybody in- terested in racing in Montgomery to learn that Butts Kohn and Sunshine have been matched. The match Is Tor $o0o side and the race will take place in the next | few weeks, and If the two horses can show the speed, courage and steadiness Mir. Gersons pacer displayed Friday the | brace ought to be warm proposition:
 tween Jenks and Butts Kohn 1t was a wonderful performance when one thinks about it. In the four miles that the | horses went there was not moment letup in the speed; 1t was go with all that was in them from the score down | to the finish. Notwithstanding the fact that the pace in every heat was a Killing one there was not skip or niomentary hesitation by either horse. It showed the | wonderful consistency and reserve force | possessed by both MT. Jackson's Jenks and Mir. Gerson's Butts kohn. It was something never before seen at River side-four fast miles, one Of them near. ly 2:14-and not a break in either one or them. not even in the scoredown.
 Tn regard to the question of the Eng fish racing MT. Whitney has the follow ing open letter in The New York Times: To the Editor of The New York Times:
 l think 1t necessary to ask sufficient space to state. in my own way, my req sons for withdrawing from racing abroad. The publication of the fact was made without my knowledge and during my absence from town at october Mountain. It was premature and has given rise to incorrect inferences and contectures
 The dominating reason for withdrawing my stable from England Is the success
 of the efforts of late years to raise the standard of racing in this country. Ger
 tain gentlemen have devoted most ol
 their time to this work, and I considered
 it my duty, as one who derives great sat
 isfaction from horses. to second their CT . forts in every way. It was for this req
 son that I co-operated with them to re
 yiye the Saratoga Association and aban
 doned a contemplated trip abroad thii
 The sending of our best horses abroad
 depreciates the quality of the sport a
 home and diverts needed revenues. whici |
 stakes and encourage breeding here.
 make an exception in my own mind O.
 the case in which one has an eligible
 horse likely to win one or the ciassl'
 races like the Derby, the Oaks. or tn . Leger. Winning one Of these races re fleets credit on our breeding, and is prop
 erly matter of pride to Americans. l
 is not at all unlikely that may be fount trying for one of these again.
 The intimation has been made that m.
 reason for withdrawing from racint
 abroad was dissatisfaction with the treat
 ment my horses received. My main pur
 pose in making this statement Is to giV'
 an unqualified denial to that intimation | Nothing could be further from the truth
 I have received nothing but courtesy ant | fair treatment abroad.
 We Americans have invaded Englan' . | with new methods of training and ridinl [ and with American-bred horses have Woi 4 a fair share of stakes. It would hav' [ been perfectly natural in these successe ~ had given rise to some jealousy in sport , ing circles, but have never had eVidenc' l of the existence of such reenng On | 1 der these circumstances I can think O | nothing more unsportSmanltke than tn | criticism these suggestions -mpute to me I of conditions and discretions to which al l competitors are alike subject, pc the!
 native or foreign.
 l think l can make my sentiment ol
 this point clear, by stating that som
 months ago announced my intention. | a mark of appreciation of the courtes | which l. single American, have receiv ed; and also as an expression or my es | teem for Lord William Beresford, to as the Stewards of the Jockey Club to plac l with some benevolent racing fund tn 5000 pounds I won as a stake incident I | the Derby. Lord William Beresford tm
 partner in the Heath House training es | tablishment) took Volodyovski as a year ing and developed and raced him as
 year-old. Death alone deprived him the distinction of winning the Derby. l highly valued by every true sportsma
 and racing man in England. Some month
 ago I communicated this intention : Lord Marcus Beresford, and the delay |
 executing it has been caused only by un certainty as to the most effective metho
 of associating Lord William Beresford' 5 name with the fund.
 The opening of the Westchester Racin!
 Association at the famous Morris Par
 Course marks the biggest racing meetinl l of the year on the running turf and tn
 close of the seasons racing until the win i ter meetings. | vear-olds at six furlongs of the Eclips
 course is the feature of the opening da,
 and probably the most important even
 of the meeting. The first running of thi
 stake was on the 3rd of October. 1899 am
 Indian Fairy with Little Slack and Il , pounds won it in 1:10 IA from such 7' field as Red Path Brigadier. Modrin'
 Windmere. MT. Jersey, Mayor Gilroy an
 Structure and