The New York herald., 1922-07-02
EASTERN HORSES IN
BIG LATONIA STAKES
Exterminator, Broomster,
Olympus and Devastation in
Independence Handicap.

The West will have to develop all its
speed to beat the East In the battle fol
thu three great purses of the last week
OF the Kentucky Jockey Clubs success
full meeting at Latonia--the $4,000 Inde-
pendence handicap. which will be run
on Tuesday. and the $4,000 Daniel Boone
handicap and the $4,000 Latonia Oaks
which will BE- features of the get away
day program. The Latonia meeting will
wind up next Saturday. The Indepen-
dence handicap is a race of one mil
and hale for -year-olds and over
the Daniel Boone a gallop of one mile
and three-sixteenths for three-year-
olds and over, and the Oaks a dash o1
one mile and a quarter for three-year-
old fillies.
In all of these races the representa-
tion of the East Is formidable. In the
Independence and the Daniel Boone il
is likely that the West will have to beat
Exterminator. Flying Cloud. Olympus.
Devastation and Broomster. Whisk-
away. the Carlton stakes and Kentucky
Special winner. is in both races, but 1t
is rot probable that he will start in
either. Whiskaway looks, because OF
his Special victory, about the best OF
the three-year-olds of the Whitney sta
Bile. and he has so many dates in val
liable races exclusively for horses of his
own age there is no particular reason
for starting him with horses of maturer
years. to all eS which he would have
to conHSs.e weight. The Whitney stable
-in be well enough represented in the
Independence and Daniel Boone handi-
caps by Olympus or Broomster.
Broomster. a son of Broomstick, and
an own brother of Broomspun, and
Olympus. a son of Royal Eagle and
Paradise H., are closely related on the
distaff side, both tracing to the cee-
brated Sp;naway through Handspun, tn.
dam of Tanya and Tangle. They are
powerfully made geldings and have
demonstrated either in private or In
public ability to carry on over big dis
tances Of ground. Olympus defeated
Bonlface, no less, in an overnight handi-
cap Of one mile and seventy yards at
Havre de Grace last April while train
ing for the Kentucky Derby renewal
that was destined to be won by Nor
vich. but in which Olympus was pre-
vented from starting by an attack OF
influenza.
Olympus was one Of the considerable
two-year-old winners of the season oi
1921. He was the first two-year- -old of
hi1 season to win at three-quarters of a
mile. He defeated Mustard Seed in q
renewal of the fremont. one Of Aque.
ducts $4,000 Juvenile specials late In
June. He failed at Aqueduct some ter
days ahead OF the running of the Ken.
lucky Special to waive his age allie.
glance and concede three pounds to Fly.
ing Cloud in a race of one mile and q
sixteenth, but no three-year-o showr
so far could have beaten Flying Cloud
Flying Cloud is one of the most formi.
dable handicap horses in the United
States.
Brother of Broomspun.
Broomster ought not to require mucf
introducing to the patrons of Kentucky
racing. who will readily guess his Close
kinship to Broomspun by his name
BroomspuD is remembered as the col
that stepped mile in 1 :36 and frac
ticn in an overnight race decided jus
ahead of the Kentucky Derby renewal a.
Churchill Downs year ago last spring
He afterward returned East, to win tn,
$4,000 Preakness renewal at Pimlic,
and after that to die at Aqueduct as
result of a broken shoulder. sustained il
an accident at the start of the Carlton
renewal.
Broomster was in rare form at Hayr,
de Grace In April, but he was one o
the first thoroughbreds OF the Whitne!
stable to succumb to influenza. He ant
| WhislSaway got over the effects of thei
| Irritation with the coughing sickness
about the same time and Broomste
trained so cleverly at Jamaica through
| the last fortnight of May and the frs
two weeks OF June he would have beer
pointed for the Kentucky Special II 4
had not happened that his stable hat
formidable eligible colts and geldings IL
Whiskaway and Olympus. James Rowe
! the veteran handler Of the Whitne,
stable, predicts that before snow fife
again Broomster will have demonstrated
that he is one OF the best distance rur
ners of his time.
The Whitney candidate for the Oaks
renewal at Latonia. Prudish. is 2
daughter of Peter Pan and Polly Film
ders and an own sister of Prudery, ths
smartest two year old filly development
of the season of 1922. Prudery went
| West a little more than a year age
with her unbeaten colt stable com.
panion, Tryster.e to start In the Ken.
lucky Derby renewal. She and Trystel
were beaten by Edward r. Bradley's
colts Behave Yourself and Black Ser
want, but she beat Tryster, also Leon
ardo I'd, Bon Homme, Careful and hall
a dozen others. Prudish started only
! twice as two year old.
| Her most signal achievement under
silks was the winning at Belmont Parl
a fortnight back of the Coaching Clui
American Oaks, a gallop of one mile
and three furlongs and New York.
best special for three year old fillies
In this Coaching Club American Oak.
renewal Prudish easily trimmed th,
highly tried Emotion. Prudish is 6