Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-21
MAKE READY FOR RACES 4
SMART CANDIDATES ARRIVE
TO TRY FOR $4,000 STAKES
More Mounts Yet To Come for Inaugural
RunninE in Latonin
Cham piOnship.
CONVICTION. HY.. Sept. 2o.-Halr a

CONVICTION. Ky, Sept. 2o.--Half n
dozen smart three ear-olds. claim
ing Eastern ownership have already
arrived in Kentucky to take part in
The inaugural running OF the $4,000
Latonia Championship stakes. race
OF one mile and three quarters for
three year olds. which will this sea-
son aud hereafter be the richest as
regards value OF American horse races
More will be coming in the first few
days of the current week. for the
open character of the race has con-
WINGED the owner of every eligible of
fair quality that his runner will have
a fair chance OF success.
1t thappens that neither Sir Barton,
the three year-old sensation of the
early weeks Of the racing season Of
1919, and Purchase, the star performer
Of the months of June and july and
August. VIII icil has just enjoyed Il walk
over in the $4,000 Jockey Club stakes
at Belmont Park, is eligible to start.
and that Eternal, the Brooklyn handi-
cap winner OF last spring, has gone
wrong after training brilliantly at
Saratoga through August.
Many Formidable Candidates
The most formidable of the Eastern
owned candidates sure to start are
Philip \. Clark's Dunboyne, Edward
Arlingtor's QUESTIONABLE. w. Il. Goes
Natural Bridge. Major Robert /.
dreth's Lord Brighton. w, L. Wilkin-
sons War Rocket, Walter NJ; Jefford's
Starmaster. H3ward Marsha Trans
William j. STAIRS War Zone NindeX
the crack three year-old Of the Whit
ney string last spring, WI inao no, some; some
torily at Saratoga Though August,
but shortly after his arrival at Belmont
tendon tend e' lie viii ii be on the shelf until
Dunboyne Is the Eastern candidate
compelled the temporary retirement OF
this accomplished son Of Celt and
Workmaid which won last seasons s.: oi1,
Sir Barton and Purchase, after ne had
trained brilliantly for the Preakness
did the lightfootcd chestnut begin TO
gallop in earnest until mid August.
his work in the last fortnisht of Au,
satisfactorily. and his performance, in
the S25 900 Lawrence Realization stakes
at Belmont Park, on september ., was
highly creditable.
Polka Dot May Go In.
1t is possible that the marc, Polka
Dot. daughter of Ceit and Network,
who bears c9nmpiieateid reia i.a mp
pair of them. and Network hcinE the
dam of Workmaid. the mother of Dun
boyne). may go with Dunboyne in the
Championship. And Polka Dot is no
bad tiily. at Belmont Park last spring
this sister of Paddy Whack and of the
distance runner. Embroidery; demon,
stratcd that she could carry her. speed
over a distance of ground by defeat
ing a smart field in the Coaching Club
American Oaks, race of one mile and
old fiiies.
QUESTIONABLE. son or Zeus and
Frances. after Dunboync, probably is
the most highly thought of the East
crn championship candidate. \ bay
colt of good architecture and smooth
gait. this fellow showed a smart per
Gormance in the Brooklyn handicap
in the spring when nc finished At the
heels of Eternal and Purchase and
beat Crmpcr, BE Frank-ihe the La :
tonia derby winner-aiso Bonitace,
War Cloud and Trompe n Mort.
War Racket. which viii bear the
silks of w. r. Wilkinson. wealthy
young New Yorker, who has gone in
scale, is a Kentucky bred son of I'M
brother OF Ticket. he the son OF Bal
lot, which finished second in Omar
khayyam's Kentucky derby. War
Rocket Is a bigger, and better made
three car-old than Ticket was a
couple OF seasons back and a horse o.
unusual speed. He showed his smart
est performance Of the current sea-
son at Saratoga early in August when
he defeated field of frst-rate horses
over the mile course. which he COW
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