The New York herald., 1922-04-16

Exterminator is not the only first rate
distance running Thoroughbred claimed
as its own by the Eastern racing public
and early June. Paul tones. Sporting
| Blood, Bon Homme, Boniface, Audacious
John p. Grier. Tryster and Idle Dell will
ship west from Pimlco in the second
week of May with the thrse-year-old
Derby candidates for the renewal of the
$4,000 Kentucky Derby. There is
possibility. also. that Flying Cloud, a
promising four-year-old of the stable OF
George w. Loft. will go with the better
known horses.
Probably the most formidable of these
prospective Eastern invaders Of the Blue
Grass is Audacious. A son OF Star Shoot
and Bold Girl. she a daughter of the
line of Hamburg Yankee and Correction,
Audacious is big, splendidly proper
toned chestnut that can run like the
wind and carry on any distance. More
over. he is a capable manager of weight.
He was not heard of at 81 years old
At he was only ordinary. and at
he was not much better than he
had been at g. But he blossomed
like a rose at s. Last summer and
fall Exterminator was the only handi-
cap horse of the East that would have
found support in race of one mile and
a quarter with Audacious, and 1t is
questionable whether Exterriinator could
have taken his measure in race of one
mile and a furlong. He beat Exter-
minator in the Suburban renewal at
Belmont Park in June after Extermi-
nator had been kicked at he starting
gate by the evil hammered Mad Halter
and paralyzed temporarily in one or
his legs.
Audacious's Record Race.
The most notable achievement of
Audacious in his fourth season of rae
ing was his lowering at Belmont Park
last June l of the American mile record
tcompetitive) of :35 AS, that had been
made by Man o. War In the spring of
1920 when ne (Man o. War) defeated
Wildair in the Withers renewal Au-
dacious stepped off one mile in as 3-5
when he defeated gallant little Eternal
in renewal of the Mineola Handicap.
one of the Westchester Associations
minor specials. 1t was after he had
done this stunt that Audacious won the
Suburban Handicap renewal. with Mad
Halter in the place. running his mile
and quarter in 2 02 1-5 which is about
the fastest time for the distance ever
really made at Belmont Park notwith-
standing the record" of ZOO flat that
is credited to Whisk Broom I'd, win
ner of the Suburban of 1913.
Then followed his victory in the Carter
handicap renewal. to win which he had
to step seven furlongs in 1873, track
record time at Aqueduct. He finished
the season brilliantly at Pimlico in No
vember by winning a $1,000 special for
horses of all ages at one mile and on a
muddy track. Before he won this Pim-
lico race Audacious was not rated a
capable mudder. But when he did 1t
he beat a redoubtable mudder in Billy
Kelly.
| So far Audacious has done all his
racing East. When patrons of Ken
lucky racing see him in May they will
behold the best horse, after Sir Barton
Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont
and Withers winner of 1919, the great
English stallion Star Shoot sent to rae
ing in the course of a long term OF
stud service, first. at Runnymede farm
and, finally. at Hamburg Place. He is
owned by Mrs. Wilfred Viau of Mon
treal. and last July Mrs. viau turned
down an offer of $4,000 for him. Mrs.
Viau has embarked in rather a big way
in thoroughbred production with a stud
headed by the English stallion Omar
Khayyam. She herself intends to put
Audacious at stud service after the big
Star Shoot stallion shall have outlived
his usefulness for racing purposes.
Paul Jones Prominent.
Paul Jones. Boniface. John p Grier.
Tryster. Bon Homme, and Sporting
Blood are already more or less favor
ably known to the Western racing fra
ternity. Paul Jones, Kentucky bred
son of Sea King. won worldwide re-
nown in 1920 by defeating Upset and
On Watch and flock of other brisk
three-year-old in the Kentucky Derby
of that year. And his Derby form was
confirmed a little later at Belmont
when he defeated Boniface and Exter-
minator in a Suburban renewal. Paul
has slipped some. He was never too
sound. He is getting on in years. But
he Is still better than an empty stall.
He will accompany from Pimlico J. s.
Cosdens Theo Cook gelding Good
Times. which the veteran trainer VIII
liam Garth is confident will give even
Norwich a race at one mile and
quarter IL the two meet In the impend-
ing Derby.
Boniface will chaperon Commander
]. X. L. Ross's Derby hope. which will
be either Marble or Mercutio or Span
ish Maize or. possibly, two of these
colts. Boniface Is some horse. A prod
uct OF the Blue Grass, he has raced in
Kentucky and in Canada and In the
East through five seasons and earned
nearly 100000 in stakes and purses.
That he will pass the 100000 mark
this season is certain. He may do 1t In
Kentucky in May. He is as sound as
horse could be and much improved as
to his track manners.
John p. Grier and Tryster will ride
west with Bunting. last seasons Bel
mont Park Futurity winner and Broom
ster, last years Great American Stakes
victor. Bunting and Broomster are to
bear the silks of Harry Payne Whitney
In the Derby. Tryster won high con-
sideration in Kentucky a year ago last
fall by beating Grey Lag and Behave
Yourself In the kentucky Jockey Clup
Stakes Inaugural. a race OF one mile for
two-year-oIds. He will be pointed for
the Clark. James Rowe, the handler of
the Whitney string, does not believe that
Tryster wants to 60 farther than one
mile and a furlong But at that dis
tance he can shake nin1ble leg. John
Y. Grier Is the son Of Whsk Broom III.
and Wonder. which put Man o. War to
the whip and headed him a sixteenth OF
a mile from the finish In the Dwyer Re-
newal OF 1920 at Aaueduct. Later on he
fiivvered in the second Latonia Cham
pionship. which was won by Cleopatra.
with On Watch second and Damask
(John P.'s running mattel. third. John
r. Grier Is Whitneys handicap ace this
year. He is training soundy and
horse that can show a mile in :36 fiat
ts "a e1kaaN Y~1.. a