The New York herald., 1922-06-18
MORVICH'S RIVALS
IN $4,000 RACE
Owners of Pillory, Snob and
Others Hopeful of Winning
Kentucky Special.

Need of such q turf test as the $50, 0,0cC
one mile and a quarter. to be run next
Saturday at Latonia to determine the
question of primacy among the three
year-olds of American spring racing.
becomes more and more apparent as the
current season wears on. There is no
chance of a race among any considerable
number of the best In any Eastern stake
of the first class before autumn.
AS little is known to-day of the rela-
tive merits of the many bidders for the
three-year-old crown as was known be-
fore either the $4,000 Derby at
Churchill Downs or the $4,000 Freak
ness at Pimlico. MorvI,n won the Ken
lucky Derby cleverly and demonstrated
that he could carry weight mile and a
quarter. But he did not prove by win
ming the Derby that he was the best
horse of his age in the country. because
some other smart threeyear- -oldS'were
racing on May 13, at Pimiico In the
Preakness renewal, and several others,
notably, Whirisaway. Olympus, Lucky
Hour and Kai Sang, four of the most
formidable of his two-year-old rivals OF
1921, were temporarily lncapacitated by
sickness. They had. within the fort
night fallen victims TO influenza after
training brilliantly 70, Ahe Derby.
PiIlory's Preakness Race.
Richard T. Wilson's ri.lory, winner of
the Preakness, an hour or so before
Norwich galloped his impressive mile
and a quarter at Churchill Downs. did
not in the Preakness prove that he was
the best horse of his age in the East,
because three or four smart colts that
had trained for the Freakness, like the
brilliant absentees from the Kentucky
Derby field, were laid up with the all
prevalent coughing sickness.
Snob H., French-tied son OF Pres
tige, the famous Sardanapale's sire, from
an American mare called May Dora.
came through brilliantly at Jamaica on
MAY Is, by defeating d field OF high
class three-year- in the Stuyvesant
Handicap, and because cf this perform
ance, was bought from John Sanford.
his breeder, by j. S. Cosden of Balti-
more. for the unusual sum or $S5,OO0.
Snob's Withers victory at Belmont PARK
over Pillory, the Preakness winner,
which he SgnallZeQ Dy SdilOpl1S oilc
mile mile In / :35 AS and equaling Man
o. Wars record for the race, seemed to
confirm his Jamaica form and mark him
as the most dangerous Ct the aspirants
for Morvich's crown.
But the form Of the Withers was re-
versed in the renewal of the $4,000 Bel
mont Stakes on June 10, when Piliory
raced from behind Snob II. and easily
beat him. There was nothing dubious
about Fillory's Belmont victory. He
and Snob, also Hea and Ray Jay, the
other Belmont starters packed 126
pounds each and none suffered bad luck.
Pillory was simply better colt than
Snob III. Moreover he was better colt
than Hea, which he had beaten q short
head in the Preakness renewal and
which most persons who saw the Freak
ness run thought might have beaten him
if the Maryland Jockey Clubs great race
had been at a mile and a quarter or
more.
Mr.. Wilson. who has named Pillory
for the Kentucky Special. naturally Is
satisfied with the outcome OF the Bel
mont. He Is sure now he has the best
three-year-old. with the possible excep-
tion OF Norwich, in the country. He is
not without hope that Pillory will prove
that he is better than Norwich by beat
ing the doughty Californian at Latonia
on June "a.