New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-10

Babe Rutii' III ~ ASN"AN cASoNA'S
,sseball frenzy TO the heights, not O
10 national game is played, SO Man
.s;cr achieved distinction unknown
ss;ore in the history Of the American
..-; And this distinction was capital
,ss TO the flowing Golfers of the va.
sons associations honored by the pres
saee Of the great hree-year-old colt.
And still the sport can scarcely fail
:, benefit through the retirement of
n, wonder horse of turf history. An
Awe any game or sport and you will
euickly discover its magnetic attrac-
.on is balance of competition. With
! the one exception of The Dryer at
,oueduct, when John P. Grier took the
biz chestnut by the head and raced
lin, stride for stride in the first mile
and sixteenth of a mile and fur
Ore test, Man O War, as a three
vesr-old. never met rival that could
even exercise him. Every other race,
. Irrespective Of the tremendous weight
allowances he conceded, was a practi-
cal walkover for the Fair Play colt be-
fore he faced the barrier.
Fine Lot of Classy Ones
Blu. for Man o War the season OF
1920 would probably have seen the
greatest three-year- racing in TWEEN
" years. There was an unusually fine
10, OF high class three-year-olds that
were made to look like just so many
selling platers in comparison to the
Big Horse Few but the best of Harry
Payne Whitney's string had the nerve
10 challenge the champion of cham
pions, and those that were sent out
after Man O War invariably met the
same fate; they were raced into such
sbject submission that it took them
weeks or months to recover.
Jimmy Rowe, the Whitney trainer,
never gave up hope of lowering Man
o Wars colors until at Saratoga the
big chestnut buckjumped to victory
after breaking the hearts of John ?.
Grier and Upset Whitney's Wildair
already had been relegated to the
also" class by series of futile
Efforts to chase the phantom.
The coming season then is bound to
witness greater variety and greater
balance than the American turf has
known since the breeding industry was
so seriously threatened a dozen years
ago by the repeal of the PercyGray
sw. In spite of the recent World War
or probably because of it, as Amer
ica was able to import much of the
richest European blood-the breeding
industry in America is once more firm
" established, so that each succeeding
crop Of two-year-olds, seems just a
little Improvement over the preceding
oAe
1t is far too early to forecast the
!wo-year- old outlook Of the prospective
season. But it must be remembered
that 1920 produced an exceptionally
grand lot of yearlings that will come
10 to the races now, an dthere is every
reason to believe the juvenile classes
will be representative both Of quality
and quantity.
Great Season Forecast
Before snow flies metropolitan rae
Ing fans should witness such treat in
the three-year- old division as might
reasonably have been expected one
year ago but for Man O War. The two
year-old division of 1920 was dis
sppointment-not because OF lack OF
class, but because of sickness and in
Jury The juvenile championship gem
orally was conceded to Tryster, Harry
Payne Whitney's unbeaten two-year-
I'D colt
But there we're others unbeaten he
has never met, the 100000 lnchcape
aud Leonardo II. Fifty-five of last
years two-year- Odds have been named
for the rich Kentucky Derby: This
n.vL ~ mr.
the rich three year-old stakes of the
metropolitan circuit will settle that
question of class which was not
definitely settled in the last campaign.
Space does not permit all enumera-
lion of all the fancied two-year-olds
Of 1920 which on occasion flashed real
Championship class. Harry Payne
Whitney had harmful in Tryster,
prudery, Broomspun, Exodus, Well
Under and others. Inchcape prophe-
sled second Man O. War, went wrong
shortly after Sam Hildreth paid Mr..
eosscter record price for the colt.
leonardo II was another.
Mr.. Rosseter thinks that in Montalvo
aud Merchant Marine he has two bet
ter ones than Inchape. Walter Sal
mons fillies Careful and Step Lightly,
the latter the Futurity winner, are
hkely to have much to say in the
lily championships. The Greentree
Stables Touch Me Not, the Redstone
stables Sporting Blood Oriole, the
aanest "mudder" OF decade; the filly
Nancy Lee, Grey Lag, Star Voter, Reg
S'rar, lntrigante and Jacobina, of the
n. L. Ross stable; Knobbie. Brig
saler General, Fright, Rockland, Ser
spis, Eternity, Summit Riddles, So
brigade. Friuli, Billy Mclaughlin, Val
icy Of the Moon, Fred Ruben, Wedge
w0od, Neap Tide, knight OF the Heath
q, sedgetield and Dimmesdale are only
1ew OF the best of last years juven-
,ss expected to make the three year
VIA competition the coming year.
Fine Lot of Old Horses
:, Because of Man O. War last years
satee-year-olds generally had a rather
easy season, which fact should bring
saem back to the competitions for the
aseo divisions all the better for their
'iest. There are enough of these alone
~ provide varied entertainment
throughout the year. But they will
" I've 70 match strides with fine lot OF
S.aef handicap horses, such as Natural
a. r., saudacious, Eniilade, Billy Kelly
TSansce' Exterminator. Corn Tassel
Fru;. 'erciap. Iippity Wltchet, Sailor
r nrlt Cake. War Smoke. Elmendorf
vva,aooyne, Natural Bridge. Lion dor
psof' Mad Halter. Star Master. The
reos'er. Royce Roofs, Cromwell, Motor
uP' rags, Penrose, Ticklish, Lanius
r aa. many others. Other former greats
Sss s so active last season, are coming
W. 70 me races. chief among them J
d.. ."scVlelIand's Eternal and Sam Hill.
"eth Purchase and Tncui1;te
l,r nose s IN control Of the turf, particu.
ann. she stewards of the Jockey Club
ps y;ar nnsaiiy to have realized that the