The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-02
LATOMA CUP EVENT
CALLS OUT BIG ONES
Famous Sprinters Will lussle
in Two Miles and Quar-
ter Stake.
ENDS KENTUCKY MEET
Spirited Battle Looked for
When Pandorina, Clubs
and Others Hook Up.
ENDS KENTUCKY MEET


The $4,000 Latonia cup. TWO mile:
and a quarter. to be run on the clos
ing day of the meeting, November s
bids fair to be an unusually brilliant
event this fall, and fitting close fol
the autumn season of racing in Ken
tueky in 1913.
Among the eligibles TO this rtot
stake are a number OF horses whict
have made brilliant records this year
over a distance Of ground. One OF these
is Mrs. l.. A Livingston's 3-year-old
filly, Pandorina, the winner of the
four-mile Endurance stakes at Church
i'll downs this autumn, and another star
rated in the long. g.distance class is NJ,
C. Moore's Clubs, the winner of the
$4,000 Latonia cup, two miles, at the
recent Douglas park meeting. IL Pan
dorina Is shipped here to run in thi
event, which is more than likely, as
Jockey G. Gross has been engaged tc
ride her in case she starts, it will mark
her first meeting with Clubs, ms that
gelding was not engaged in the Ken
tucky Endurance stakes,
Other Sprinters Eligible.
Another good performer eligible to
the Latonia cup. which has been racing
most recently in very high-class form
is Samuel r. Meyer, aud while this
performer has never been anything like
his distance. he has won up to q mile
and an eighth in nearly world s record
time, which indicates he is apparently
able to cover creditably any route of
ground.
Cousin Puss is another performer
that is expected to run good race in
the Latonfa cup, she having had lot
of bad racing luck in the Louisville
cup, and is capable of a much better
performance over a long distance than
she put up in her recent race at Doug
las park.
Other eligibles to this race, which are
still in regular training, are the Ken
lucky Derby winner, Donerail, Harry
Lauder, Marshon, Sir Catesby, Founda
ton, Just Red and Jenny Geddes.
Manager Hackmeister now looks for
a field of record breaking size in the
Latonia cup this season. as the event is
handicap, and the weights which will
be adjusted by Secretary Z. W. Ma
CHM, are sure TO he so allotted as TO
give the various starters all a winning
chance. The weights will not come out
until Wednesday, November ., Four
In arranging his programme for that
day. which he has yet 10 announce,
Secretary MaGinn will make most at
frRctive list Of overnight events, rs a
setting for the chief event of the pres
ent meeting here-the $4,000 Latonia
cup. AS usual this season. the winner
Of this event will receive n beautiful
solid-silver loving cup, which is just
now being finished up by the manu-
In ~, nd ha LAT
ing association more than $500,
Two Miles and Quarter.
Two miles and a quarter. the distance
of the Lstonin cup. is and always has
been the popular distance in this conn
try, as well IS In England. for cup
race. Many great contests have been
run in this country, as well as in Eng
land over this route Of ground. and In
the opinion OF trainers, it is the ideal
distance really to test the merits and
stamina Of the thoroughbred race
horse. One remarkable race at this
distance was run in the Saratoga cup
in 1875, when Springbok, then n 5-year
old and ridden by W. Clark, and Preak-
ness. then 6-vear.old, ridden by Will
liam Hayward. ran a dead heat in the
fastest time RUIZ at this distance mp to
that date, 3:56H. The record these two
great dead-beaters established that
day. now nearly forty years ago, is
still the track record at two miles and
q quarter over the Saratoga course.
Were Great Horses.
Springbok, one of the heroes of the
famous race. passed his stud davs in
Kentucky, and among the brilliant win
ners he sired was Audrain, the Hindoo
stake winner at Latonia in 1854. the
race which afterward developed into
the present Latonia Derby event
Preakness, the other dead-heater, went
20 England. and among the coed horses
he sired there was Fiddler, which also
proved cup race performer. OF Grin
sted. which ran third in that great
stake, it is sufficient to say that he
did more than anv horse 10 make the
fame of F.. i. Baldwin as q turfman by
sending TO the races the many stars
that in Baldwin g early career made his
black jacket and crimson sash so noted
on all the American tracks. and he still
ranks as one Of the most successful
sires of great horses in tho annals OF
American thoroughbred breeding.
Desperate Finish.
To run dead heat as such dis.
tance is surely trying feat on any
fwo performers, and odd TO note, the
descriptions OF that race at that time
tell how gamcly the two dead heaters
closely pushed BY Grinsied. stood n des.
perafe drive al through the stretch
and for the last 100 wards II was i'm.
possible TO separate them
The time they recorded was remark
able for those davs, and stood as the
best for the distance for number OF
years, and it is still even faster than
the present Latonia track record nj
this route Of ground. but it is very
likely this viii be beaten this fall in the
Latonia cup. especially if Pandorina
and Clubs hook M together in the big
event
The racing public are surely fond OF
long-distance races, and for this season
the Latonia Gun is an event Of interest
second 10 no feature race run during
the entire fall season Of racing Mt La,
tonia, no matter what class OF horse.
may go to the post in shorter dis
tance race
Dillon and McGoorty.
4 bout has at last been clinched be.
Tn he