The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-01
INCHCAPE MOST
FAMOUS ENTRY in
KENTUCKY DERBY

Belmont Parks most famous contri-
button to the impending renewal of the
kentucky derby, if an unprecedentedly
big selling price may be considered a
proper measure of fame, will be Inch
cape, son of Friar Rock and Rose of
Gold, and a product of the recently Or
ganzed Californian thoroughbred nur-
sery Of John H. Rosseter. InChcape, if
he starts in the great three-year-old
race of one mile and a quarter that will
be renewed at Churchill Downs on May
I, with value of upward of SIS, 1000,
will bear the silks of Harry F. Sinclair,
oil magnate of the Southwest and men,
Der of the New York Racing Commits
sion. Through S. c. Hildreth, then his
racing partner, but now merely his
trainer, Mr.. Sinclair paid Rosseter $780,
600 for lnchCape last summer, and
S15O,OOO is the biggest sum ever paid
anywhere by anybody for a tWo-year-
old
Like Tryster the star colt candidate
for the derby of the powerful stable of
Harry Payne Whitney, and Leonardo
I'd, which is to bear the silks of Edward
F. Simms. another great oil operator of
the Southwest. and has been proclaimed
sure winner by the shrewd horsemen
who have been watching him work with
Bon Homme and Mulciber at Hot
Springs, InchCape got through his first
season Of racing without knowing defeat.
He did not, however, race as often as
either Leonardo I'd or Tryster raced.
He started only twice, and it was after
his victory in the fremont Stakes, run
at Aqueduct, over BrOOmspun, Jeg,
Sporting Blood, Kirklevington, Dimmes-
dale, Houyhnhnm and Touch Me Not,
about as good a lot of youngsters as
could have been found anywhere in the
country in the first week of July, that
Hildreth paid Rosseter $150.00O for him.
A week or so after Inchcape came
into the hands Of Hildreth he contracted
skin trouble, and about the time that
disorder cleared up and it looked as
though he might train satisfactorily for
the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and
the Walden, Churchill Downs and Pinl-
licOs best autumn specials for tWo-year-
olds, he fell lame. Inchcape was never
very lame, but he was sufficiently wobbly
to make his retirement necessary.
He wintered at Rancocas farm, the
former domicile of the great thorough
bred stud of the late Pierre Lorrilard, a
sportsman of international renoWn, with
Grey Lag, winner OF last falls renewal
of the Champagne Stakes and contender
in the Kentucky Jockey Club Inaugural,
which fell to Tryster.
Inchcape enjoys the high Endorsement
of Walter S. Vosburgh, Handicapped of
the Jockey Club of New York. In an
article in Racing Form published the
other day Mr.. Vosburgh picked Inch
cape and Tryster as the best of last sea-
sons tWo-year-olds, and admitted
weakness for Inchcape, because the son
of Friar Rock is the most impressive
individual. Mr.. Vosburgh considered
Inchcape's performance in the fremont,
when he shouldered lis pounds and gal
ioped home seven lengths in front of his
company, covering three-quarters of
mile around turn in 1:12, about as
good performance as any tWo-year-old
had ever shown in July. The fremont
was run on July 10. Only once or twice
in advance of its running had young
horses been asked to go three-quarters
of a mile in any part of the country.
The time Inchcape made would have
been good time for sprinter Of mature