The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-22
Fine Racers Come South In Bunches

Louisville. March 21.-(Special) The stable of George w. Loft, member or the
 racing commission of the state of New
 York, just arrived in Kentucky from Bel
 mont Park, is the vanguard of an in yason of the Blue Grass racing belt,
 which. before spring is far advanced, will
 have eclipsed anything of the sort that
 has occurred in past seasons.
 | The rich specials for horses years old
 and over, the Kentucky Jockey Club
 closed March l. Such races as the $l0cOO Kentucky handicap, to be run s-nurcn-
 i'll Downs, with the s750O Proctor Knott
 and the 5000 Clark handicaps the S,oO0 Camden to be run at Lexington, and the l S15.0o0 Independence. s10,0O0 Daniel Boone, | $5 coo Enquirer and $5 900 Quickstep han 1 dicaps, to be run at Latonia, will make Kentucky racing in April May and June |, as attractive to the owners of horses of mature age as the renewals of the SS),OO0 ! Kentucky derby, the $15,0oo Latonia derby, ! the 5000 Kentucky Oaks and the SS,oo0 ! Latonia Oaks will make blue grass sports
 to the owners. of great three-year-ol -olds
 This springs invasion will therefore be an invasion of stout and tried dis tance running four-year-olds and hve- ! year. olds, and even older, horses. as WEI as the smart two-year-olds of the season of 1919 whose appearances under silks Tn races at more trying distances than SIX and seven furlongs and one mile, every '. one is awaiting with the llVeileSt HiteA cSoes
 With the establishment of Mrs. Waiter
 NJ. Jeffords of Philadelphia the coun- ltry's leading sportswoman and the owner
 of the highly promising derby candidate, Golden Broom, last season s winner or the
 Saratoga Special, will come bunch ol
 such capable old horses as Dr. Johnson Routledge Star Hampton and Kerensky' When H. G. Bedwell comes west with the powerful derby candidates of the stable of Commander J. K. l.. Ross or Montreal, the Celt colt, Irish Dancer, ana the imported Trush colt, King Thrusn, : he will bring on Sir Barton, the wlIlS,cr 5 last season of both the Kentucky deroy and the Preakness stakes also Biliy Kelly. Boniface and War Pennant, all oi
 which have wintered splendidly. W1tn Dominfuue hero of last season Walden at Pimblico. Samuel c. Hildretn VIII 7 bring on Purchase. so far stranger !. western race tracks; I<uculllte, star oi l Hast seasons four-year-old division; SoIn- N , ia ssell winner of last seasons SupurDaI handicap; Mad Halter winner or last . fall,s Latonta championship, and Thun- , derclap. winner of the Annapolis nahol, i cap at Laurel Park last Octoper, aiiu 1 holder of the new American record oi , 2:29 3-5 for one mile and hall. HI.
 Areths horses have been at Beimon'
 parlr since November. and they also win tered we'll h,
 Etarnal winner of the Brooklyn nan 
 dicap of 1913, will race in Kentucky wltn , the derby candidates, the Trout ana Has ten On, of the stable of James w. Mc
 Cleveland. but it happens that Eterna
 will not come on from Havre de Grace
 with the McCielland three-year-olds. V, . James Rowe has put by most or the IT llrstrious cripples of the stable or Halr' Payne whitney. but he will bring on ron
 Brookdale farm, with Dr. Clark, John
 Grier. Leviathan, Upset and Wildair, 7 Nrst-rate four-year-old lilly in Vexatious a bay daughter of Peter Pan and con
 trary, and the winner last season @ or .;n, tn
 Alabama and Lawrence
 Cornelius M. Garrison of New York, wh @
 won last seasons Latonia derby ana ias s seasons Latonia autumn cup with D @ pesanL so far the best son of Sir Jon - Iohnson' has no derby colt for the com ing three-yearoid classes But g,,tsn se fIan 1an : is in splendid condition al Wriiai, a he vi j. be be- coming on toward the end of Maren. Re Frank appears to have a special al