Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-17
.LATON|A CHAMPIONSHIP
TO DRAW GREAT RACERS
First Running OF $4,000 Stake
Event Will Have Majority Of
Eastern Horses Entered.
ETERNAL AMONG CoNTENDERs
Expert Ii0rSemcn Now Gathered at
Saratoga Think Lightly of Chances
of ANY Western Stccd Capturing
Big Turf Classic.


augural running of the Kentucky
Jockey Clubs great race Of one mile
and three quarters for threc-yenr: ODDS
Will bear the silks of sportsmen VINO.
as general thing. do most of thctr
racing about New York. although some
OF then are western 'h ana n per
their silks. well as under the silks
Of bona-ti resident Easterner;s, that
claim American nativity at all. are
Kentucky bred
Newspaper writer's over fond OF
'l!s =; a. tn" turf Struggle :'stwoen
the East and the Wcs; in races Ike
the Kentucky and Laton!a derbys ara
the two and three year-old specials
which are annually decided up here on
parts OF the country and from Canada
meet each August for twenty-siN or
t~enty-seven days racing. As a ma.
ter Of fs act is mS ms Il' Wct 10 zen
Two wcstcrncr> Iinvc Chance.
The Congress Of Experts from all
rar;s of the United States gathered
At Saratoga now. and there are more
privileged TO enter in since 1905 or 1907.
are agreed on the proposition that
about the, only championship eighties
may be considered to have chances are
W. f.. polson'e Nulcanite and ticors.
j Longs Ciermont. Ana it is the
consensus Of opinion. expert and other
". Sc. that the chances OF these colts are
rather remote.
or the rally Formidable championship
candidates, Dunboyne. the Futurit?
winner OF last season. is the property
OF Burton l.. Cassclls, New York
broker. although he races Under the
silks OF Philip 4. Clark another New
York broker
Mad Halter. which II he starts, viii
bear the Silks OF samuel g Hiidrnth,
mont. chairman OF the Jockey Club Of
New York and one OF the foremost pro.
iucers OF thoroughbrc,!s in the United
l-fl HFV,r = 4.
son OF Bridge OF Allan and ls:ite. be
longs to w r. Coe, another business
habitue Of tho mathematical financial
district OF the new Babylon. but who
is tho owner OF ranch IN Wyoming
rnst"rni swain Look, Good.
which may. in The running. o, the hrs'
championship. RIVE the fame OF ihs
bridge expert. Joseph Il. E!weu, who
about the race racks csmout'iIes hit
identity under the so-called assumed
Ophcl!a is the property OF Joseph
l. Davis. prominent me InGsr oil the
pc nays amd ns or ESns aaa
Davis. OF West Virginia. Mr.; Davis
docs business ,,,s, in the wash n1sta
way sprouts from Battery Park. Davis
is 3. member OF the Mcadowbrook Hunt
baron. Balus,rade belongs 10 Major
Robert l.. Gerry. the scion Of family
ssof massachusetts Democrats, one OF
whom. the first Elbridge Gerry. con
tribu,ed that mouthhlling and p!ctur-
osoue expression; Serrynander" TO
the eil 95so9 and Of n fsrd n,rn,oo A.,
property OF Samuel c. Hildreth. who
long since fores wore mis- Western af-
Vancouver and Mormon. If they race
in the championship viii appea- under
n Silks Of Wills Share Kilmer; OF
Virgin who js not unknown TO fame
IN The West. his Kentucky bred geld
inE. ETterminator. having won the
Kentucky Derby and the Latonia Cup
Of 1918 Rodgers and Gath for
George W. Loft, former ,nemhcr Of
MrCIeilan's Record Varied.
Translate, handsome son OF Trans
den: of Maryland. got $40 900 at Pimlico
IN May few days after he had gal
n ,"psa tbs m nlo,c ana fnri6ns in l52 is
young banker OF Baitimore' S"s'''
It. is difficult to place James w.
pionship. McClelland came from Lev
inston originally, but he has a fawless
a asstesn rf he a PS'fal lie voted
Charles f. Hughes Tor Governor I'm in
New York in 1908 and he came ali the
way to New York from Maryland In
presidential aspirations OF Mr.. Hughes.
McCleliand races a stable in the East
as well as stable in the West Also
he recruits his stables annually from
Edward +. Simms' NalaDa farm which
is situated near Paris. Kentucky Per-
haps McCielland should he divided as
King Solomon offered to divide the
baby of Scriptural tradition.
Watkins Comes from 'Texns.
Richard T.. Watkins. the man who
OF fourteen seasons back. ST. Beliane
winner OF the Municipal Handicap and
the Belmont Park Autumn Weigh; for
Age n race o and Who ~I ,r is now the owner
race horse, barring Spur. King James.
OF glorious celebrity. has sent to the
races. sprouted in East Tennessee and
matured in Texas.
But he has been Glowing plutocrats
on the Eastern race courses so long
he wears white collars and regularly
gets his nails mancured about once
week. 1t is proper. perhaps. to call
Watkins an FASTENER George Odom,
who owns King Piaudit, halls from
Georgia and is distinctly development
Commander j. Is. l.. Ross calls Mon
lrcal home. and no one will deny that
addon On IN t d@nnE Var
which he bought last fail from 4. X.
M L,sS7nhs5 com ,hnanGs Ross has
:, the Province of Quebec on the right
bank of the. St lawrence just below
Montreal al and = an9th h!nn at YarroW Hrae
Vindex Yank of Ynnkx.
x Harry Payne Whitney. whose silks
- Vindex will bear II that splendid son
of 81. VctriX and Beliefontaine, whose
=, mind and heart have, so far. been too
full of romance for racing, will only
buckle down to the business OF
. racing, Is a Yank OF Yanks. The
Whitneys are BERKSHIRE Hill folk Of
Massachusetts, and prodigiously proud
OF it,
Like his father, the late william
=. Collins Whitney. one of the greatest
Americans of his time. Harry Payne
Whitney is one OF the mainstays OF
the Eastern turf. He will be remcm-
sbered in Kentucky as the owner Of
1. Regret. the only mare that has sue
,.ceedod in winning the great Derby at
Churchill Downs. Mr. Whitney hay
long maintained thoroughbred stud
lat Brookdale Farm. which is in Mon
,fmouth County, New Jersey. Recently
Kentucky. William J. Starr. who may
he cham ni0n In AZ