Evening star., 1938-10-30

had planned the jockey change long
before
In the betting Hourles was the ia
vorite at 3 to because most racing
veterans knew the cause Of his pre-.
vious defeats. Omar was 13 to 10.
When the race was run Hourless tri.
umphed by length. setting the rec.
ord of 400, which still stands.
The next big match was staged on
october IL. 1920, and this is the one
which comes to mind most quickly
when such races are mentioned. 1t
was staged at Kenilworth Park, just
outside Windsor, Canada, and involved
the 3-year-old champion, Man O. War,
carrying 100 pounds. and Comdr. J. K.
L. Ross Sir Barton, king of the handi.
cap division, with 126 pounds up.
This race also was marked by a mys-
terious change in jockeys, Earl Sande
being taken of Sir Barton at the last
minute in favor of frankie Keogh.
H. Guy Bedwell, then Comdr. Ross
trainer and now active on the Mary
land tracks, explained the switch later
by saying Sande was in bad slump.
However there never existed q jock.
ey who could have won with Sir Bar
ton that day when Man O. War just
galloped of with the race, winning by
eight lengths. Most horsemen agreed
afterward that the race should not
have been staged, as the Ross horse
was far from his best form. 1t was to
forectou e,,oh odyarcA novoa
Seabiscuit was scratched last spring.
The last big match races in this
country occurred within q few weeks
of each other in the fall of 1923. In
the first Of these. Harry Sinclair's
Zev defeated the English champion,
Papyrus, in the mud at Belmont Park
This was the 100000 International
horse race ever held in this country.
The condition of the track undoubted-
ly aided Zev. and Earl Eande brought
him in five lengths ahead Of Papyrus
in race that was flop as a pulse.
quickener.
Shortly afterward. zev, the Ken
lucky Derby winner. met two Of his
greatest rivals. Admiral Cary T. Gray
sons My Own and Carl Weidemann's
In Memoriam. in the Latonia Cham
pionship at Ia miles. In Memoriam
won easily, but Trainer Hildreth was
Of the opinion that Zev merely had
run bad race. So almost immediate
ly afterward. q match between zev
and his conqueror was arranged for
Churchill Downs, site OF the Kentucky
Derby.
Each owner posted $4,000 Is 4
side wager and the racing association,
added another $4,000. In the mile.
and-a-quarter race that followed Zev
won by the smallest margin, with
Sande working like a Trojan to keep
him going long enough to stave of
defeat.
That Just about sums up the more
important specials" Of the last gen.
Grafton. Young vanderbnt's Discov-
cry and William Woodward's Granville
met In q two-horse race at saratoya
two summers ago. but that was in this
regularly scheduled Saratoga Cup.
Past his heyday and a pronounced
sulker, the once great Discovery was
beaten by six lengths in hollow race.
There is little doubt that both
participants in Tuesdays race can
measure up very favorably with these
heroes Of the past Dissimilar though,
the backgrounds Of the two horsee
are, their records are strikingly simi-
lar in one respect-consistency. .
War Admiral, one Of the four horses
to win the triple crown-that Is, the
Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Bels
mont Stakes--has been out Of Tho
money only once in his racing career
His one defeat since October, 1898,
when Bottle Cap trimmed him in the
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