The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-03
BLO0DED HORSES
FROM OKLAHOMA
CAPTURE PRIZES
CONrINT-rr rR0M pAgr oNn

price ever paid In a claiming race.
As a matter OF fact the silks OF
Sinclair. Jones and Cosdcn flash
down to the judges stand in front
oftener than those OF any others.
They might right now be called the
big three OF racing" having all but
supplanted whitney. Belmont and
4 Bradley the big owners and winners
OF other seasons
All want $685. 900 Prize.
Oklahomnns are certain to be
much Interested In tho impending
renewal ~ the t35.o0o tatonia
championship The most formidable
of the prospects for this event are
Wh!skaWav. the $4,000 Kentucky
special winner. bunting. last fans
Belmont Park Futurity winner; surf
Rider ana ROckminister june Grass,
Little Chief Lucky Hour, Southern
Cross. Pirate Gold, Lettcrman and
Galpntman. There is "a possibility
that Stlrtle will be IN TO race, as she
did at Churchill Downs last fail.
when she defeated flock of smart
2-y'ar-old colts over q mile course
Tn tho Kentucky championship re-
uowal The winner Of tho Kentucky
oaks aud the best 3-ycar-old nIly
that came this way from Kentucky
last month has not raced satistac-
turily here, but she has in no sense
lost her form After hrr defeat in
the Alabama renewal John l. Smith
pui her aside and she appears To be
bcncfittiug 5y the rest treatment
with these 3-ycar-Olds competing.
the fourth Latonia championship
viii be a better balanced race than
any OF its predecessors ana boast OF
a more brilliant and better condl-
ton field than either the Kentucky
derby the preakuess, the Belmont
or the Kentucky special brought to
the post in the spring and early
summer. Not all of these colts and
gcldings have raced at Saratoga. Bad
weather prevented the renewals of
the Miller and the Travors, Sara
toga's brag 3-ycar-old specials OF
annual revival, from attracting the
best material eligible for them. But
all Of them have trained splendidly
ana are about ready for the colOrs.
Whisl<awny Likely to BE In Form.
Whiskaway, the son OF WhisN
Broom second, and Inaugural. which
defeated Thibodaux, PillOry and
Norwich in the Kentucky special in
augural rs the championship candi-
date most In the public eye just now.
And Whiskaway will go TO Kentucky
in the middle of September TO race
Montana, who paid Harry Payne
Whitney $l25,000 for him not long
since. Whiskaway's work for the
Travers renewal In which he did not
start because the going was heavy
n week ago. confirmed his Aqueduct
and kentucky form OF the summer.
There Is a possibility that Bunting
will go to Kentucky for the special
In the interest OF some other horse
men than Whitney, his breeder.
Several offers of 100000 and up
have been made for Bunting. and
Whitney is at the point OF selling
The master OF BroOkdale stud Is de-
ycloping a habit of selling his good
horses rather than keeping them for
racing under his own silks. Clifford
a. Cochran, a New York breeder,
and the owner OF June Grass, per-
suaded him last week TO part with
the 2-year-old Goshawk, winner Of
this seasons renewals OF the Great
American and the Saratoga special
stakes. for the modest consideration
of S50,O00 Cochran Ia one OF
the big bidders for Bunting, and he
is apt to go up on his offer OF last
week.
Lucky Hour and Southern Cross
will bear the silks OF Edward f..
Simms, the proprietor of the Xalapa
farms stud in Kentucky, and now
one Of the biggest producers in the
country. Lucky Hour, one OF the
smartest Of last fails 2-year-olds,
trained splendidly t Havre de Grace
i'm April for the eKntucky derby re
newal, IN which sickness prevented
him from participating. He has not
started since Bunting scored a fluke
victory over him In the Chesapeake
stakes renewal at Havre de Grace.
But he has recovered entirely from
tho effects of the influenza, which
kept him in the east the day, the
Kentucky derby was run and from
the shock Of n kick administered
by the playful Southern Cross, which
cracked his skull and necesstated
a trepanning operation. Lucky Hour
may start in the Lawrence Realiza-
ton, but his main objective Is the
Latonia championship.
Montford Jones Has Speedy Ones.
Rockminister and Surf Rider are
10 bear the slks OF Montfort Jones,
one OF western racing's most valu-
able acquisitions from the oil fields
of the upulent southwest and the
developer last season OF the fllly.
Miss JOY. These colts are develop
monis Of Saratoga racing Rock
minister, son Of Rock View and
MallAld, Sne a daughter or SlhT
Shoot and member Of the Matte
z. branch Of the sterling American
family of Maggie B. b.. was a stout
distance running 2-year-old OF last
falls Kentucky racing. Sickness pre-
vented hts getting ready for the
Kentucky derby last spring and
gave him a chance TO develop
normally. His improvement since
he first appeared under silks at
Saratoga has been steady.
Surf Rider, 4 Virginia bred son Of
Superman and Sea spray, she an
other daughter Of the prolific Star
Shoot, Is colt Jones paid John
Madden $4,000 for in the spring.
Surf Rider did not make out as well
In the spring as 70 was hoped he
might probably because he was
crowded too hard I'm his preparation
for the derby, i'm which he did not
make particularly credltable show
ing. He has been made over since
he came to Saratoga ana Is a new
colt,
Little Chief, tho only champion
ship eligible Of the formidable Ran
cocas Stable is n Maryland bred
son of Wrack and Medora. she a
granddaughter OF the Meddler and
Ballantrae, and she a Cambridge
shire winner In Great Britain. Little
Chief was not much thought Of
when the horses came TO Saratoga
but he has recently won renewals