| Show WYETHS OWITBB BEFUSES Declines Brighton Beach Offer and Will Keep Horse in Chicago Chicago July lTocal racetrack followers fol-lowers arc slonscd over Owner John A Drakes decision not to take Wyeth cast In rcsponne to challenge of the llrlgh ton Beach Racing association for a sort of Derby rencjva iVbc run on that track during July The1 Derby Vlnner always continues more or less of a hero on time local tracks and ll would be dIsappoint lag If Wyeth should bo taken away before be-fore the local crowd have had other op xiorumUIca to nco him At tine same llmo Chicagoans as Avell no ICnatorners Avould be glad to see another an-other infecting of tIle principal colts that ran In time big raiy oC Junu 21sl 1C there AVCIU nnv feasible method of bringing alioiil ouch a race Sectional rivalry Is mi Immense ImrxStuit IP the Interest In horse racing amTthe sectional races of former daya thirty ycarti or more ago excelled any of the stake events of the present day In tho Intensity of the hiltr est shown This MS 1 only natural and It la unfortunate condition do not bring about more of such contests today Although the big eastern classics the Brooklyn and Suburban handicaps and the Futurity bring together eastern and wcnlern horses these races arc never characterized by more than a moderate sectional fccllntr for the reason that most of the homes participating In them ever though they belong In time WcRt go canal early In the season and do most of their racing there thereby becoming eec onImd ns eastern rather than western homes In the cage of time American Derby It Is slightly different Inasmuch as the eastern colts Avhich start In the event al most Invariably come out here with rcpu tatlonu made solely In tire East and their icrformanccs arc Avatchcd In mine Easit with no Utile sectional foelliitr 1C a roco or two could bo arranged every season which would bring together a few or the best thai have raced In the East nail u few of time best from the Wcsl the contests would undoubtedly prove nt Avldcpurcod Interest Hut It la to bo ad trlltcd that such an Idea Is not practicable practi-cable For nil that racing IB a sport and not a business or should be the ownora oven tIne Avcalthlest and moat sportsmanlike arc hound to keep their best horses pointed for stake engagements engage-ments for which they arc almost Invariably Invari-ably engaged and would would bo ninro or lens Interfered with by special sectional sec-tional matches Few western horsemen presume to express ex-press iv poslllvo conviction us lo how Much a raco would come out To a majority ma-jority of them time rcsiilt of time Derby was a surprise end Avhlle practically per mindod that Wyeth la a genuinely great colt over a distance of ground wllh weIght up they would like to see oun or two morn hard questions askod of the won of WadBWorth before witting full store bv him On time oilier hand 1C any or all of the wtstorn 3yoarol were to be lei Into the prnioKed sectional match local ruclns men would not feel at all sure that Major Danccrllold or Mnutcr man or come other enatcru colt might nol prove tha suyorlor of the eastern aiuirlcl thnt ran hero In the Derby that IB In 11 race of Derby distance and Avlth practically time same conditions Westerners feel fairly sure unit v yetn has a reasonable clmiico to repeat his Derby victory at any time over the came horscH ho boat here Another Important factor In a sectional 1yoarolil race would of course bo McChetmoy and many would be perfectly willing to Kt In any of the easterner and manIc on McChesnoy bringing the prise homo to Iho I West Clilcaso Tribune |
