The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-21
ENTER GREAT STARS
IN ENDURANCE RACE
Twenty Subscribers Name
Sprinters to Try for Four
Mile Honors.

900 Kentucky Endurance stakes, four
miles which is the feature event OF
the coming ten days fall meeting OF
tho new Louisville Jockey club, whlca
begins on Wednesday, October 8, AND
winds up this autumn on Saturday,
October 1S.
scribers in this event was on August
&. at least, on that day the subscrip.
tions closed for the long distance
stakes. Each one of these subscribers
paws at that time 800 and this sub
scription gives him the right to name
three or fewer horses, out OF which ne
can pick one starter In the race, Tor
which he pays the additional starting
tee of $3.50
This season the new Louisville Jock
ey club added to the event $4,000, the
bid of that association being $1,000
more than the Douglas Park Racing as
eociation bid for the event, namely,
$500. The greatest sum previously
added to the race was the $1,000. which
was given py the new Louisville jock
ey club last season. The event has
always been run off at Churchill
Downs.
Famous Stars Entered.
AS usual, this season, the Kentucky
racing commission gives a $1,000 gold
cup, which goes as trophy to the
winner of the big race. This cup is
now in the possession OF the racing
commission, but will shortly be turned
over TO the new Louisville Jockey club,
which will place the valuable trophy
set for the running off of the rich
stakes. The cup IS Of 90 carats. solid
gold and of silver trimmings Of the
most delicate and ornate design. 1t is
intended as a symbol, ever marking the
greatness of the horse, the gallant VIC
tory has made it possible for an owner
to acquire it.
The complete list of subscribers, with
the horses they name, has just been
made public by Secretary Lyman II.
Davis of the new Louisville Jockey
club, and it will be noted that the
twenty eight horses from which Will
come the field in the big four.1nile
race this season embrace stars Of the
track famous for sensational speed, as
we'll as for the nominal endurance.
Never before in racing history have
three winners of American Derby races
as three-year.olds been named to go
in four-mile race. These three per
formers are Douerail. winner of the
of > the Latonia Derby, and Buskin,
winner of the Canadian Derby this
season. In addition to these such
other great three-year- -olds are named
Cor the race as Rock View, conceded
To he the champion Of his age in the
east this season; Helios, unbeatep al
this age, and Ten Point, for which it
was reported in the spring his owner
had refused $4,000 for.
won in nine races this season, one of
which was the rich $4,000 Dominion
Handicap. while Milton B is stake
winner and Rudolfo won the $4,000
Kentucky Handicap at Douglas Park
last sprlfY. beating in addition to the
best Of old horses such three-year
olds as Ten Point and Gowell. There
are others in the event that appeal
strongly to the lovers of racing form
as having a chance IN such a race, and
it is safe TO say that no Kentucky En-
durance Stakes, as vet run off, ever APP
peared as open an event as this season.
To Lower Record.
1t will be an attempt Of Manager
w. j. Winn Of the New Louisville
Jockey club to have the track in such
superb condition that day that once
again the record at four miles will be
lowered at Churchill Downs. 1t was
over this track, in 1876, that Ten
Brock set the world s record at four
miles, in 7:l5I, while it was in this
stake in 1911 that Messenger Boy
ran this distance in 7;14 l-3, setting
the record for four miles in race
Last year the winner of the Kentucky
Endurance Stakes, Sotemia, made the
world IS record of 7:10 4.5, which Man
ager Winn believes will be lowered
this season if weather conditions are
favorable on Wednesday, October s,
the day set for the running of the
event in 1918
AT Oakland, Cal, Lucretia Borgia ran
four miles against time in I'll. With
this exception, the three fastest four
mile performances in racing history
have all been scored at Churchill
Downs
1t is anticipated that one of the great
est crowds that ever assembled On a
race track in America will gather at
Churchill Downs this fall to see this
great event decided. There is no ques~
tion that the eastern representation this
season will be greater than, ever before,
and the superb sport insured during the
local season Of twenty-ope days racing
make il q surety that every prominent
turfman and lover of racing will be here
from the west and south as well as from
over the Canadian border. There will
be faces seen at Churchill Downs on the
day the Kentucky endurance stakes is
decided that have never before seen d
race run on the big Kentucky tracks
and others who have not witnessed such
contest i'll years, 1t is reasonably sure
that the field will not only be the big
gest this season so far in the history of
this race. but that more horses will face
Starter Cassidy that day than ever
lined up at the barrier In a four-mile
race in the long history of the turf in
America. The winner of the Kentucky
endurance stakes On October 8 is sure
TO be eheered on to victory bv throne
that will tax the capacity of the now
great plant at the Downs, which has
been expanded and improved so as to
accommodate twentieth century
crowd. People like big things, and the
Kentucky endurance stakes is the big
gest race Of the year.
The following subscribers have named
horses In the Endurance stakes:
Subscribers. Horses.
August Belmont. nt........... 49,
49,. Rock View. Mission Compliment
Ten Point Goldy. Phyllis. Antoinette
f. 3, Cassatt. ........ Flying FAIRY
E. c. Cowdn Swauuanos
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