The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-17
ANNOUNCEMENT OF BID FOR KENNY OWN RACE OCT. 25. STIMULATES MUCH INTEREST
Maryland State Fair Offers $50,000 For Match Race
 Between Winner Of Papy- rus-Zev Race And My Own

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.--Interest in the coming $1oO,oOO race TOT inter- national turf honors between zev American three-year-ol champion and Papyrus, English derby winner, was quicxened today py a series Of developments. They included anoth- CT impressive time trial by 'Papyrus the arrival of Steve Donoghue, fa- nous English jockey, who will pi- lot the derby winner, and an offer by the Maryland State Fair associa- ton of $50,000 for a special race on Thursday of next week between the winner of the international contest and My Own, rival of Zev for Amer ican honors this season.
 Sam Hildreth. trainer of zev, inn nediately accepted tho offer on be- half of his horse, but Basil Jarvis, trainer of PapyrJs declared plans had been made to ship the derby winner back to England early next week and would not he changed un- less otherwise directed by Ben Irish, owner of the horse. Shortly before Zev was selected by the jockey club to carry Americas colorS, Harry Sin clair, millionaire owner of zev, de- clared his willingness to race his horse against My Own after the in- ternational match. The Maryland as- sociation's offer was for a race for a distance of one mile and half at Laurel track.
 Papyrus galloped eleven furlongs in 2.24 flat today at Belmont park, the scene of the international race. The time was not especially notable, according to observers but the derby winner was under stout restraint all the way and finished strongly. In contrast to the rather tired appear ance of Zey after his stiff test sev- eral days ago.
 Donoghue, who arrived today on the Olympic, probably will have the leg upon Papyrus in another exercise tomorrow but no attempt at a time trial is planned by Jarvis.
 Donoghue, who celebrated his 39th birthday aboard ship yesterday, de- clared his confidence in Papyrus and in his ability to pilot the derby win ner home in front of Zev. The little jockey, 8 national idol CT British turf followers, has won five of the clas- sics at Epson Downs in his career, winning his third straight on Papy- rls this season. He was accompana jed by Isaac Visited, personal rep resentative of MT. Irish, owner of Papyrus, and several other. British sportsmen who arrived for the race. Visited was somewhat pesstmistic over the prospects of the English horse, pointing out that it would go 
 arising from it's long ocean voyage and the necessity of training for the first time on dirt tracks.
 The keynote of zev's preparation for the race is scheduled to take place tomorrow at Belmont park when the Brown colt will be asked to go the full distance of mile and a half Observers expect this trial to give conclusive line on the con dition of the American horse, which has been subject of considerable debate since it lost part of frog in winning the Lawrence Realization several weeks ago.
 The good workouts of the English horse, on the other hand; have tend ed to shorten the odds, which at first were heavily in favor of the American representative. Wagers which have been made on to l basis for several days dropped to 2 to l.
 A distinguished gathering will witness the race on Saturday, mak- ing the event one of the most notable in international turf history. Gov ernors of several states, members Of the United States Senate and House of Representatives have reserved boxes, while the army will be repre- sented by Gen. John J. Pershing.