The sun., 1919-08-13
HIS CHOICE SCORES,
SO ROSS REJOICES
Canadians Pet Filly Comes
Through in the Kentucky
Stakes at Saratoga.
ny HENRY ". KING.

SARATOGA. Aug. 12.-Commander J. X.
L. Ross, the Canadian sportsman. has
one of the largest stables OF thorough-
breds on the American turf and among
his horses are Billy Kelly. Sir Barton.
Cudgei. War Pennant and Milkmaid.
which have won many valuable stakes
and worldwide fame. But none of them
Is as dear to his heart as His Choice. the
black two-year-old flly which won the
Kentucky Stakes this afternoon.
The beautiful and speedy daughter of
Hessian and Altiora Is not champion.
She Is not even a prominent contender
for the title Of queen Of her age and sex.
She Is Just a fair Ally, The Commander
is fond of her because he picked her out
as a yearling and against the advice of
HE friends and Guy Bedwell, his trainer,
bought her and sent her to his barn. Be
cause she was his ideal of a thorough
bred and was not fancied by host of
friends who are practical -horsemen he
named her His Choice.
All during the winter and spring the
Commander was more concerned about
her than about any other horse In his
barn. and when Bedwell reported that
she was doing nicely and would win sew
tTdi EhCob IkObb WAS Lno IUOSL bhIlbucu
horseman on the turf.
To-day when she led home O real
good field of Juvenile misses the Com
mander's Joy knew no bounds He was
on the track to meet her when she re-
turned to the scales and followed her
to the paddock, where he fed her a
pocketful of lump sugar.
Runs Great Race.
And the Commander had reason to
feel proud. The sturdy little black miss
ran great race. She took the track
as soon as the barrier was released, and
after running the speedy Betty ]. into
submission during the first half mile
went on to win easily by three lengths.
His Choice undoubtedly was the best
horse In the race. but she would not
have won SO easily II the start had been
a perfect one. Azurita, the bay filly
owned by A. II. Dlaz. and La Rablee,
P. A. Clark's imported daughter Of Ra-
belais, which finished second and third,
respectively, were practically left at the
post. They ran exceptionally fine races
and with better racing luck would have
pressed the winner to her utmost.
Azurita is the filly John E. Madden
presented to THE SUMS Tobacco Fund
last year. Mr. Diaz bought her and
shipped her to Cuba, where she won the
Juvenile Crown. She is an exceptionally
speedy filly and half sister to His
Choice. being by Hessian and Motlet.
She Is improving with age and before
the end of the season will give a good
account of herself in better company
than that which opposed her to-day.
La RabJee Is a half sister to Joseph
f. Wdener's Naturalist. Just as Nat.
-uralist used to be, she Is hard to train
and Is bad actor at the post. In all
her starts this season she broke badly
and refused to do her best until most
Of her opponents were we'll on theiI
way
Late in Getting Going.
To-day was no exception. She re-
fused to settle down to real racing I'M
til His Choice was a dozen lengths in
front of her. Then she displayed the
speed OF an Elm Queen. and when the
home stretch was reached was in a con-
tending position. But the task of max.
ing up 30 much ground sapped heI
strength. She hung in the last sixteenth
Of a mile and was beaten a neck by
Azurita.
Raj PARIS Blazes, a son OF Wrack
proved that he Is far above the ordinary
in the last race. in which he defeated q
big field OF high class youngsters. He
stepped away from the barrier on his
toes and was never headed. At the
end of the, FIVE and q half furlongs he
was I'VE lengths ahead of Sandy Beal
which took the place, half length In
front OF Grayssiam.
The victory of Blazes was the second
OF the day for Mr.. Parr, for in the
steeplechase his Bughouse led home a
bad lot of cross-country horses Fred c.
Williams, the veteran steeplechase
Jockey, narrowly escaped death He was
riding Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Toppy
Nix. The horse stumbled over the OBJ
stacle in front OF the clubhouse and
hurled williams headlong through the
air. williams landed heavily on the
ground and remained there. Toppy Nix
leaped over his PROSTATE body and the
jockey escaped with a few bruises.
Bachelors Bliss set the pace in the
race until a quarter of mile from
home, where he faltered and Bughouse
went past him to win by half dozen
lengths
Phil Musgrave scored his first victo-y
since his reinstatement in the opening
event when he guided home Samuel
Ross's Ballymooney In front of big
field OF sprinters. In the Kentucky
Musgrave was thrown from Mr.. Ross q
Titania, but escaped serious injury
Samuel Riddles Man O. War and Mrs
Walter NJ. Jefford's Golden Broom. the
two best juveniles OF the year. will meet
tomorrow afternoon in the Sanford
Memorial. Because of their presence in
the race the stake has aroused more In
terest than any other event of the year