The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
MQnO War and Sir Barton
Ready for $4,000 Race
Great Thoroughbreds Tuning Up at Kenilworth-
Colt With Better Lungs and Stouter Heart Will
Win, for Both Have Tremendous Early Speed.

Kenilworth Park. one OF the newest
and best appointed of Canadian race
courses. with a considerably enlarged
capacity for seating and shelteriug
racing folk, Is ready to entertain on
Tuesday. on the occasion of the meeting
between the three-year-old thoroughbred
champion Man o. War and the four
year-old star Sir Barton. the greatest
crowd that will ever have assembled on
a Canadian course. Sir Barton and
Man o. War, respectively the property
of Commander J. K l.. Ross OF Montreal
and Samuel D. Riddle of Philadelphia.
are to race one mile and quarter for
a purse OF $4,000 and q $1,000 gold
cup.
Commander Ross and Mr. Riddle have
signed UP with a. NJ. Orpen. president
OF the Kenilworth Park Jockey Club. TO
race their horses. rain or shine. pro-
vided Sir Barton and Man o. War keep
their health and do not meet with dis
abling eccidents. The horses will meet
under NS.s.e for age, Sir Barton pack
ing 1875 pounds and Man O War 100.
Racing folk everywhere are prepared to
accept the result as determinative of the
thoroughbred championship of the North
American continent.
AS befits n race Of this exceptional
character Man o War and Sir Barton
will race for the biggest purse ever Of
fered anywhere for special race be-
tween two horses. The winner will take
all. Jockey Clarence Hummer. who has
ridden Man o. War In all Of his three
year-oid races. barring the Miller and
the Travers, which were decided at Sa-
ratoga in August while he (Kummer)
was laid up with broken shoulder, will
have a leg up on the three-year-old
champion. His reward will be $4,000
Jockey Earl Sande. the contract rider
OF the stable OF Commander Ross. will
rllot Sir Barton. Sande's reward will be
equally generous.
The course over which Man o. War and
Sir Barton will race for the champion
ship of America Is situated just outside
the thriving manufacturing and railroad
centre of Windsor, which is just over tie
Detroit River from Detroit. now a city
of upward OF 100000 inhabitants and
the centre OF the great automobile indus
try of the United States. News of the
imrending race has spread far and wide.
Already the hotels of Detroit and Wind
sor are crowded with eager deyotees Of
racing from all over the map.
Both Home BREEDS.
The prospective contestants in this
match are probab bly, the two fastest thor
oughbreds that ever have been brought
together in n match. or special. on this
continent. Both were bred in Kentucky.
Man O. War at Major August Bemont's
Nursery Stud. Sir Barton ON John L.
Madden's farm outside Lexington. Sir
Barton is a half brother Of Sir Martin.
the American two-yes r-old champion of
1908. which won some distinction In
Great Britain as distance runner In
1909 and 1910. Sir Barton was an in
different two-year-old. His only note
worthy achievement was his second TO
y, nboyne In the Belmont Park Futurity
OF 1918. He was. however, the most
brilliant three-year-old OF his time. His
ri oss earnings last season we're about
$4,000. He won the Kentucky Derby,
Withers. Preakness and Belmont Stakes
and the Potomac and Maryland handi-
caps, as well as some minor races. This
season he has won the Saratoga and
| Merchants and Citizens handicaps at
Saratoga, establishing new track records
of :0l As and ] :55 3-5 for one mile and
n quarter and one mile and three-six-
teenths and the Dominion Handicap at
Fort Erie.
Man O. War In the course of two sea-
sons OF racing has earned a matter OF
! $4,000. lie has been defeated but once
in nineteen starts. Because of the bad
handling OF Man o. War in the Sanford
Memorial Stakes at Saratoga a year ago
| last summer the Whisk Broom colt Up
set beat him a head. AS two-year-o'd
he was successful in the Juvenile, Keene
Memorial. fremont. Youthful. United
States. Grand Union. Hopeful and Flu
rrrity. This season he was won the
Preakness. Wlthers. Stuyvnsant. Dryer.
Miller. Travers, Lawrence Realization
and Jockey Club Stakes and the Potomac
Handicap. He has made new records for
the United States for one mile. one mile
and a fur'ong and one mile and a half.
And In addition to lowering the Ameri-
can records for one mile and three fur
ongs and one mile and Ave furlongs ne
has made new worlds records OF IL is
and 2:40 AS. Man o. War has been
called the horse of the country" IL he
beats the brilliant Sir Barton In the i'm
ending match at Kenilworth Park he
IN have made good his claim TO that
title.
Unless there Is radical departure
from the methods hitherto pursued by
both trainers, Louis Feustel and Guy
Bedwell. the race Will be remarkable
for the speed In It's early stages. Both
Of the great horses have been in the
habit of smothering their opponents dur
Ing the early part OF n contest. and un-
less something has happened s!nce the
pair of flyers were sent to Canada to
hlNtE the pidTb Oh lHclT lEHiHcTb TINS ~
the course which Will be followed In the
spectacular battle day after tomorrow.
II Is generally agreed that n horse can
only carry his highest flight OF speed
for n comparatively short distance
something over quarter OF a mile
where everything is demanded Of an an
imal-but IL ia thought that while the
battle will rage furiousiy from the mo-
rnent tho barrier ls released the pace
will be so regulated that neither glad
iator will be exhausted short of a mile
and a sixteenth. and II is in that last
crucial three-sixteenths that nerve and
muscular force Will be strained TO the
breaking point. II will then be ques-
ton OF which has tia greater lung
power and the stouter heart.
Man o. War Seldom Tires.
Those who have watched Man O. War
In all of his rnCpa fhia ycar bo va eaIdn,,,