Evening star., 1942-02-01
Santa Anita Handicap
Out, Florida Event
Given Full Play
ScintiIIotine List Of S.
Eligible for Race at
HiuIeuh on March 7
BY JOHN WILDS,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 31.-What the
All-Star game is to baseball, a
fabulous clash of the sports greatest
performers, the $4,000 Widener
Handicap will be to horse racing
this year.
Almost every outstanding thor
oughbred In training is eligible to
prance to post before a glittering
assemblage at Hialeah Park March
7. They alone will hold the spot
light. The rival 100000 Santa
Anita classic has been Cancelled be-
cause of the war.
Every noted campaigner entered
including all of the name horses
except Whirlaway-is on the eligible
list of 56.
In the group are such performers
as Midland, Challedon, Alsab. Pictor
War Relics, Market Wise, Attention,
Our Boots, Robert Morris, Porters
Cap, Haltal, Get Of, Ponty, Dit,
Cramps, Royal Man and Sweep
Swinger. An injury eliminated Big
Pebble, the 1941 winner.
The value of the race to the
winner depends on the number OF
competitors.
The Miami Jockey Club puts up
$4,000, of which 5000 is for the
second prize, $4,000 for third and
$1,000 for fourth.
The winners purse is made up Of
the remaining S36, 900 plus all Of the
entrance, eligible and starting fees,
which now total $1,000. with the
stiff final payment still to be made.
A quirk of fate barred Whirlaway,
the only notable horse not eligible.
Owen Warren Wright, with his eyes
on a new winning record,
pointed the Kentucky Derby winner
for the rich California prize and did
not enter him for the Widener.
Others More Fortunate.
Other sportsmen with horses
destined for the Santa Anita Handi-
cap were more fortunate. They
made complimentary nominations
for the race here and consequently
were not left out in the cold when
authorities Cancelled racing on the
West Coast.
Oddly enough, Wright is Hialeah
director. WhirlaWay was kept in
Florida all last season in training
for the Kentucky Derby.
Charles S. Howard's Midland,
winner of s224,450 in a brilliant
career, will carry top weight of 1873
pounds.
w. L. Brann's great duo-Chal-
ledon and Pictor-each came in at
126 pounds. Neither would have been
in Miami had the Santa Anita been
run A victory for Challedon would
raise the 6-year-old's winnings to
third place in the American list.
Challedon has earned 1922 1886 so far
and top money would pull the horse
almost even with Sun Beau, second
only to Seabiscuit.
Seabiscuit'S winnings were $437,-
730, Sun Beau's S376,744
Glen Riddle Farms War Relic, a
conqueror of Whirlaway, was in at
126. Another winner over Whirlaway,
Louis Tufano's Market Wise, was
assigned 125 pounds.
Alsab Given Light Load.
The spectacular 1941 2-year-old
champion, Mrs. AL Sabath's Alsab, Is
one of the low-weighted entries, at
l09 pounds.
The big race was named in honor
Of Joseph E. Widener. who developed
Hialeah into a showplace Of wide
renown.
Widener horses never have been
able to win the cup, but Mantagna
was Widener bred. Mantagna's time
of 2:0145 for the mile and a quarter
Is a track record equaled only by
Columbiana in winning the 1887
renewal.
Here are the eligibles, with the
assigned weights:
Charles S. Howard's Midland. 1913; W.
L. Brann's Challendon and Pictor. both
I26; Samuel D. Riddle's War Relic, 1876
Parker Corning's Attention. 125; Wood
vale Farms Our Boots. 121.
nossF sPoa noTr5 HfRsfs M R Rl Z 2S T. Lewis ssso
mar and Howard's Porter's Cap. 117: Wood
vale Farms Haltal, 116: Circle M. Ranch s
Battle Colors and Woolford Farms Sig
Circle MS Get on and Francis D.
Scullys Ponty, ia; Circle Ms Allessandro,
113: E. R. Bradleys Best Seller, Mrs H. T.
Archibalds Boston Man. Greentree Stable S
Century Note. Mrs. E. G. Lewis Great
Union. and Wexler and Shagrin's Red Dock.
122; Maxwell Howards The Chief. and
srookmssade stable's Pomaya. II: Ghas-
ney's Cramps, Mrs: 7, christopher's King
Usher Tower Stables Royal Man and Mrs.
B, F. Whittaker's Sickle T.. no.
Mrs. Albert Sabaths Alsab, Woolford
Farms Kansas City. Riddles Lord Kitchen
er; Circle MS Red Chip and Ship Bis
109; j. c. Vidafs Paul Pry, J. w. DiaIs
Llanero, Joe W. Browns Minnelusa. Wal
ter M Jefford's Riding Light E. K. Bry-
sons Trois Pistoles and John c. Clark's
Gustavel Rings cis Marion. Darlington
Stables Olympus, Guest and Martin s
Snow Ridge and Cedar Farms Warlock
and He Rolls, both 107.
Bradleys Bossy. Servant and Woolford
Farms Joe Schenck. 106; Mrs: L. Lazare' S
City Talk. c. E.; Davison's Delray and NJ.
n. Jackson's Yawl; 105; Mrs. r.; H.
Heighe's laying, 103; B. Amdario's Ares
tino and T. d. Bulbs Sweep Swinger, 102;
A. c. Ernst's Alohort 100, and Allen r.
Simmons General Jean, 9S.