The Connecticut labor news., 1921-02-18
RECORD PURSES FOR BLUE GRASS
 RACING SEASON
Kentucky Derby to Be Most Richly Endowed Event for
 Three-Year- -Olds.

The Kentucky Derby, with value of $5O,OOO in added money. is the most important of the % stakes to be decided at Churchill Downs, Lexington and Latonla i'll the course of 61 days of racing next spring and summer The 70 stakes, six of which will be run at Lexington, eight at Churchill Downs and F at Latonia, will yield $217, 500 III added money.
 Their gross value, when subscriptions. forfeits and starting fees are counted in with the added money, vii be close to S5OO,OOO. And this stake program will be supplemented by a program of over night races of from $l,000 to $500 in value each that will bring the total dis trlbut1On of money among the horsemen who may participate in the 10 weeks of Blue Grass racing to between $8O0,OOO and $900000
 The Kentucky Derby will be the most richly endowed race for three-year-olds that will be decided anywhere in the world in 1921, unless a couple of such three-year-olds as Sir Barton and Pur- chase were two seasons back, develop rivalry that may tempt the Kentucky Jockey Club or some other American or Canadian racing association to offer some such purse for a decisive meeting between them as was hung up last fall by the Wentworth Park Jockey Club for the race of October 12 between Man O War and Sir Barton.
 The Maryland Jockey Club has an- nounced that the Preakness Stakes will have value of $4O,OOO in added money this year. The British Derby will ahve a value of $32,50O, the French Derby will not pay more than $40,0OO at the outside and neither the Belmont nor the Lawrence Realization will have a greater value than $2O,O0O The Latonia championship should be worth about $35O00 to the winner,
 The Kentucky Derby should have a gross value of between $55 ,0OO and $60O0O The subscription fees will be $25, and the derby is sure to attract every three-year-old in the country that showed the least promise last season. The starting fee will be $25O, and 1t Is reasonably certain that a dozen or more of the smartest of the three-year-o that will be named for 1t will line up before the starter
 The Kentucky Derby will be the first of the great three-year-old specials of American racing decided and i'll early May every trainer with a colt or flly capable of galloping a mile i'll 40 or whereabouts will be disposed to bet $250 against $53,OO0 to $60OO0. The distance of the derby this year, as 1t has been in the past, will be one mile and a quarter. The other specials for three-year-o that will be decided in the course of the Churchill Downs meeting-Nay to 30-will be the Oaks, $1O,OOO added, one mile and furlong for Allies, and the Proctor Knott Han Iiron C1 000 1IIaI quarter, for colts Allies and geldings
 The tWo-year-old specials will be the Debutante, four furlongs, for Allies, and the Bashford Manor and Spring Trial, each races will pay $5,0O0 each in added money. The Kentucky Handi- cap, $10O00 added, one mile and one quarter, and the Clark Handicap, %,500 added, one mile and one-six- teenth, will be the Churchill Downs features for horses of mature years
 The Lexington meeting, April B to May l. will be marked by the running of the Hinata and Idle Hour stakes, $3,000 races at four furlongs, for two year-olds; the Ashland Oaks, $3OOO added, one mile, for three-year-old Allies; the Blue Grass Stakes, $3,OOO added, one mile and one fr1rlong, for three-year-olds of all sorts, and the Ben Ali and Camden handicaps, one mile and one-sixteenth and one mile and one-quarter, respectively, the for mer a $3,000 race the latter a $5,00O gallop for three-year-olds and over
 Latonias s outstanding features will be the Latonia Derby, $15,000 added. one mile and half, and the Latonia Oaks. $10,000 added, one mile and a quarter, the former for colts. Allies and geldings, the latter for Allies three years old; also, the $15,0OO Indepen- denCe Handicap, one mile and a half, and the $lO,OO0 Daniel Boone Handi- cap, one mile and three-siNteenths, for three-year-O1dS and over