Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-09
SPORTS
RAISE SHOULD BENEFIT
BOOST IN DERBY PURSE
EXPECTED TO AID RACING
kentucky Jockey Club Oniciais Propose
to Make Churchill Downs Na-
ttonnl Track Center.

'N-O1o v LIE, Fco. S.-By raising the
value OF the coming Kentucky Derby
to $4,000 in added money. the Ken
lucky Jockey Club is in fair way to
make Churchill Downs, aud the coun-
try's most widely known and popular
spring special for thrce-ycar -olds, the
richest race for three -year-olds pro-
noted in any English speaking coun-
Try. subscriptions. or entrance, fees
and starting charges will be asserted
in tho Derby and these will certainly
swell tho purse to $4,000 If. indeed.
they do not make II 100000. No person
! who has followed racing in this coun"
try has any doubt of this. No man who
has a three-year- OF either sex. that
has shown anything In the way of
speed and endurance. whether under
silks or in private gallops. doubts that
he is the owner OF potential Sir Bar
Ton or another Purchase. and the
be human II he were not willing to
risk a matter OF $500 or $1,000 in en-
trance and starting fees with q $50
600 or. 100000 stake in sight Nor
not anord to take such a change. The
entries for the coming Derby have not
been made, but 1t is n safe bet that
all the first and sccond-class two-year-
olds OF the season OF 1919 and many OF
the third-ratcrs will be found to be
eligible when the Kentucky Jockey
LUZ PQpllSutS It's llSl presently.
May Isatxe Preaknes..
That the coming Prcakness. the
Maryland JOCKEY Clubs great spring
special for three-year olds, will have a
value Of $4,000 is improbable. The
Mainland Jockey Clubs great spring
on the $4,000 in added money, which
the ,reakness paid last season, ~he n
Sir Barton. fresh from the triumph
over his stable mate. Billy Kelly. in the
Kentucky Derby. easily defeated Eter-
nal and Sweep On at Pimlico track,
and there Is sure TO be stiff starting
ice: But the Maryland Jockey Club is
there is small chance that the value of
| the Preakness may be swellcd grossly
! ny SUBSCRIPTIONS Starting fees will
| not suffice to bring it up to the Derby
! in value.
| The Kentucky derby will have some
, mbIcI on u the ne katonia ChampIonship
completely throw in the shade such
races as the British derby. which is re,
the st. Leger. which is run at Doncas-
ter in the autumn. 1t will surpass il
S Salre even ,ro,, the rriS du Jockey Club
countries as tho French derby. Tn,
British derby unless the records mis-
lead. never paid greater sum to thu
Lcger. The French dcrby's highes
value seems to have been $4,000. Ed
mond Blanc's Ajax Won it the year i
year after five seasons slumber, the
French derby had Il value. OF 500.
The only race exclusively for three
manuals that annually yields a greater
sum than the advanced derby o
Gh h,, p, Downs ss VIII pay is the e Crane
all countries: When Houii won tn
Grand Prix de Paris for one a. Foult
\ n
the all-conquering Sardn napalc won 4,
1919 it was $4,000. There was NJ
1919. but when Galloper Light defeat
ed Master Good and Insensible in las
seasons revival of the Grand Prix d.
Captain Anthony dc Rothschild. his for
tunate owner. Maybe the new dispen
sat:on In Kentucky will ultimatel!
and make the Kentucky derby $4,000
10 $4,000 race.
Mad Halter Won big Sum.
The Latonia championships. institu-
ted last fall and won by Mad Halter
is the only American race for three
year-olds exclusively that has ever APP
preached in valu the mark set fo'
the 1920 renewal OF the kentucky der.
by And 1t is proper to say here that
there will be no recession as regards
| values OF future Kentucky dcrbys. The
Kentucky. Jockey Club us, l. going for
head Bay was the focus OF Americas
racing universe the Lawrence Reali-
zation. now n Belmont Park fixture
was the richest three-ycar-old fixture
annually renewed in the East When
Salvador defeated Tenny and Long
Dance in the Realization OF 1889. he
earned matter OF $4,000 for the al
ready Decunious James Ben All Hay-
gin. Dobbins earned $33.400 when he
defeated Hornpipe and Rey ell santa
Anita in the Realization OF 1894. Gen
orally the Realization was worth
somewhere between $4,000 and 33o.-
600 to the winner. When VcNatious
won by default (Overthere finish cd
first, but was disqualified for foul)
for Harry Payne whitney last season
she earned S20.540.
The American derby. run at Wash
ington Park when racing was popular
about Chicago, paid s4e,500 when
Boundless won in 1898 But 1898 was
a Worlds Fair year. Because Of the
Columbian Exposition the derby OF
tional value. In most seasons the
value OF the American derby was un-
der $4,000. But II racing had beer
permitted to continue. at washington
Park it would eventually have become
tie richest Of American thrce-year'
old races. The Picket won n matter O.
s27025 when he defeated Claude ant
Bernays In the American derby OF
1908 the last but one. Highbal
earned S26.325 when he won the derb!
of 1904. the last Of all.
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