. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 16 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 13, 1914. CHAMPION COLT TROTTERS DON'T COME BACK Based on logic, it will seem difficult to believe that anv of the 139 two-year-olds of 1913 will have a ghost of a chance to beat either Peter Volo or Lady Wanetka. vet. fortunately, this logic has hardly been veriBed in horse racing, especially as it concerns colt stakes, says A. G. Asdikian in the New York Telegraph. When Native Belle won the junior division of the Kentuckv Futuritv in 1909 she was the logical cham- pion for 1910, yet she was not anywhere that year,
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 16 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 13, 1914. CHAMPION COLT TROTTERS DON'T COME BACK Based on logic, it will seem difficult to believe that anv of the 139 two-year-olds of 1913 will have a ghost of a chance to beat either Peter Volo or Lady Wanetka. vet. fortunately, this logic has hardly been veriBed in horse racing, especially as it concerns colt stakes, says A. G. Asdikian in the New York Telegraph. When Native Belle won the junior division of the Kentuckv Futuritv in 1909 she was the logical cham- pion for 1910, yet she was not anywhere that year, althoush she took a time record of 2:0C%. There are really few instances to show that a great two- vear-old came back equally great a year later. Colorado E. was and still is the world's champion three-vear-old in 2:03%, yet we did not see him come back during the past three seasons. If all the "logical winners" made good when expected, there could never be horse racing, but in a great majority of cases they finish among the "also rans," and this is truer of colts than aged horses. Owners and trainers of three-year-old trotters who have what they honestly believe promising candi- dates for the main divisions of the 1914 stakes have, in our judgment, absolutely no reason to be scared because of the phenomenal two-year-olds of 1913, as futuritv records show comparatively very few that won in both two and three-year-old divisions. They must also bear in mind that when a logical winner from week to week fails to make good, one can take chances on a youngster for a period of a year, consequently there appears to be no cause to be scared out and stop payment upon such eligibles as owners think have a chance. For twenty-one years the Kentucky Futurity, the oldest colt classic of the harness turf, has been con- tested as a two and three-year-old event, yet during that period only two have ever succeeded in winning both divisions, namely Fereno in 1S99 and 1900, and
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