The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-04
Great SfeedS Ready to
Smash Derby Records
Fifty Thousand Will See Bluegrass Run at
Churchill Downs Saturday; Hawthorne, Ten
Point and Foundation Heavily Backed
to Win.

sensational running al Havre de Grace
Hawthorn has started only once, and
IN the mud at that, but he won like a
stake horse, and another deluge Of
Hawthorn money showered upon the
winter books
While predictions are being made
that there will be large field TO go
to the post, it is doubtful II more than
five or six start unless the track is
others will be dropped into the race.
Despite the fact that the field may be
small. IL will rank with any derby in
the history of Churchill Downs when
it comes to clas.
Great Horses Entered.
The meeting which opens at the
Downs next Saturday should be hum
mer through the entire thirteen days.
Shipments of thoroughbreds are being
made steadily from the east to Ken.
lucky. Rarely, if ever, have local race
goers had an opportunity of seeing so
many good horses meet rs will be here
this pring. There arc few sprinters
| like Hawthorn, Ten Point, Frederick
| L., Yankee Notions, Helios, High Pri-
vate, Caugh Hill and Grover Hughes,
which are sure to meet ii the larger
events, and when such horses are in
condition, track records are in danger
of being broken.
| The two-year-old division is undoubt-
edly the strongest seen in Kentucky in
many long day. E. r. Bradley has
a few corking good ones in Bradley Is
+, Choice, Bushy Head, Brave Cunarder,
Briggs Brother and Beacbcomber The
Bradley baby racers are supposed to
be strictly stake horses, but Little
Nephew, which won rather easy VIC
tory at Lexington from high-class
field, must not bo overlooked, while
Lige Brewster's ]. B. Maylow looks
like a tough nut to crack in any kind
Of going, Birdie Williams, Susan B.,
World 3 Wonder and half dozen 9th
ers are near the top. BY the time these
Youngsters get straightened out in the
season there should be some lively
scrambling for purses, with the talent
differing widely.
the east, which has in it the derby
candidate Frederick L. and such per-
| formers as Adams Express and others,
will arrive here tomorrow or Monday.
| He probably will race out the two
Louisville meetings and at Latonia.
He is bringing Jockey Phil Musgrave
TO do the riding for the big stable.
Musgrave will have the mount on
Frederick l. in the derby. The little
ern Jockey club and doubtless the rae
ing commission will not refuse him
license in Kentucky.
Thoroughbreds Burned.
George J. Long has had Trainer Pete
Coyne take UP Free Lance for a late
summers campaign at Latonia and
Saratoga. The winner Of the Latonia
derby last summer is rounding into
form and If his leg is sound be will be
one OF the toughest propositions on the
American turf by August.
James MacManus. the turfman. is
now IN Kentucky and will 90 TO Lex
ington for the last week Of racing
there. He has couple of performers
Rocky o 'Brien and o Sullivan. at the
Idle Hour farm of E. r. Bradley, and
| II they are ready he will put this pair
back in training. Rocky O'Brien has
not accomplished much on the turf
since he was two-year-old in 1909
when he won the $4,000 Honefni
STAKES. at Saratoga from James r.
heene's great colt, Sweep
The American turf suffered another
blow this week when fifteen of tbe
most sristocratic thoroughbreds in any
land were burned at Kingston stud. the
nursery leased By the estate of James
4. keene and managed by Miss Eliza
turfman. Among those burned was the
marc Half Crown, the only mare in
this country by the famous English
stallion Cyllene. Each of the mares
lost in the fire had foals at their sides,
The loss is estimated at 100000. bUt
TO the turf IL is irreparable. IT has
been only n few months since James
r. Keene and Major FoxhaIl Dainger.
| field, two OF the best known men in
the thoroughbred world, died