The New York herald., 1921-02-27
THREE -YEAR-O[D
THOROUGHBREDS
OF FINE PROMISE
Tryster and Inchcape to BE
Reckoned With in Big
Stake Races.
OPENING NOT FAR OFF
In Less Than Ten Weeks the
Flags Will Be Flying at
Jamaica Track.

Interest in racing on the courses of
the metropolitan circuit is becoming
keen with the approach OF spring. In
less than ten weeks the flags will be
flying at Jamaica, and that popular
course will be thronged with an. army
of men and women, who find the thor
oughbred a medium for healthful rec
reation. N,
This season may not produce Man
o. War-his kind is seen only once In
a lifetime-but the material shown in
the two and three-year-old divisions
last year was of sufficient brilliancy
to indicate a noteworthy season OF
sport in 1921. Speculation is keenest
Sn connection with the three-year-old
situation, and racing devotees may
well look forward to the contests be-
tween the stars in that division.
A feature of the year should be the
races between Inchcape and Gray Lag
from the Rancocas Farm Of Harry F.
Sinclair and Tryster, Prudery and
others from the Brookdale establish
ment Of Harry Payne Whitney. These
sportsmen are neighbors and friends,
and because of that fact the rivalry
between them on the turf is all the
keener. Their establishments are in
the same zone in New Jersey and
there will be no advantage in train
ing conditions.
Inchcape Seems sound.
Those who have seen Ipchcape say
that he has grown and developed greatly
during the winter. He was a most pre-
possessing two-year-old and raced ike
a real champion until he was disabled
There are no indications of leg or tendon
troubles. and his trainer. s. Z. Hiidreth'
has no fears of getting the son of Friar
Rock to the races. Gray Lag was a
good colt during the late autumn, and
he too, Is in fine fettle. With such
formidable pair of colts Hildreth VIII
have the material to make Tryster run
all the way in such races as the Realiza-
ton. This trainer is past master at
(he old game of two pluck one
Tryster was not big colt at two, and
ne Is not a big three-year-old. but he Is
ALL horse and possesses that best or
assets in a racehorse-a good DISPOSE
ton. He is as light In the forehand as
"a gelding and ought to train early and
easily. The fact that he was unbeaten
rs two-year-old and always won his
races by the narrowest of margins is a
token of HE quality, indicating In the first
instance the ability to triumph and In
the second the tendency to do no more
than he is compelled to do In order to
win. The horse that wins his races by
a head or a neck but keeps on winning
is a desirable racing tool and should be
worth using In the stud when he is re-
tired from the turf.
There are other elements in the three
year-old field which must be considered.
Two-year-olds' that are backward often
develop into cracks at three, In TACT
they furnish some of the elements Of
surprise for which the turf Is famous.
The performances late In the season of
Bonhomme, Mulciber and others that
showed their best form near the end of
the year encouraged the belief that they
were beyond the ordinary.
Leonardo IL. in the Xalapa Farm
string, owned by Edward +. Simms,
was a midsummer sensation, and yet
those who were close to the stable knew
that John Paul Jones was believed to be
as good as anything In the barn. big
knee preventing his being trained as he
should have been to bring out the best
Tracery and the Spearmint mare Moneta,
he should stay till the cows come home.
Xalapa Farm will have TO be reckoned
with In the three-year-old events before
the close of the coming season unless all
signs fail.
Others eligible for the big Eastern
three-year-old prizes. including the
Withers, Belmont, Dwyer and other
stakes, are Our Flag. Smoke Screen.
Star Voter, Montalvo. Dinnesdale and
Kirklevington. But Tryster. Inchcape,
Gray Lag and Leonardo H., taking their
form as two-year-olds. would appear to
dominate the situation.
Best of the Ftlltes.
Prudery. Nancy Lee. Careful and Step
lightly were the best of the two-year-
old FLIES on public form. With the ex-
ception of her race in the Futurity
Prudery showed enough class to war
rant placing her right at the top Of the
two-year-old tree. Filles also have a
way OF coming to hand and displaying
unexpected form as three-year -olds, and
there might be n clinklng good slayer