Show WBITNEY SAILS FOB EUBOPE Saratoga Race Track Consummator After Foreign Turf Honors William C Whitney sailed for Europe last week to witness the performance of the bept t of his horses In England In two bly events there Accompanied by his son Harry Payne Whitney and Herman Duryea the latters racing partner he took passage pas-sage on the Celtic for Liverpool The chief object of Mr Whitneys trip abroad Is to sec VolodyovskI his best horse In England run In thc Ce sarowltch and Cambridgeshire races In October Tho horse In entered In both races and Mr Whitney wishes to view his performances There are also other horses which Mr Whitney wishes to p ee start during the visit of his party In England Seven twoyearolds were leased by him from I Lady Mcux They have been In training train-Ing and are now considered lit to greet their master The best of them Is Ayr shire Beauty which recently won a recelt stake Two promising fillies are Affinity Affin-ity and Zara The Whitney party will be away until un-til tim hatter parl of October and will then return In time to witness rctUn lme wlus some or the events at Morris park Racing will not occupy all the time of the youngov men however The Wlillneysi have a beautiful country estate among the grouse moors of Yorkshire and shooting shoot-Ing will be Indulged In there BUYS SARATOGA Standing at the head of the patrons of the SPort of klntM In thin country William C Whitney has done more for racing In America than any other man lie has the distinction 0 being one of the iwo Americans who have captured first honors In the history of the English En-glish Derby having won thl blue ribbon rib-bon of English turf In 1D01 with Volo dyovskl whose performances he now goes to see In the purchase of the Saratoga track by Mr Whitney and others turfmen recognized a great moves lo n brighter future for racing In America To Mr Whitney morf than to anyone else they look for a still greater development of the sport Ever since Mr Whitney announced an-nounced thai he had retired from business busi-ness for good and had turned lo racing as the best and most healthful recrea lion his every nmvn has been watched with the keenest Interest At the age of 60 though as active and hearty as mosl men ten to flflccn yearn younger Mr Whitney determined to lei go as he expressed It and dovolo the rest of his years to leisure and his favorite Hport In a word he said hr had determined to devote himself to real living I have never wished to become wealthy ho saId at the time of his retirement re-tirement last wlnlor nor have I any ambitions politically Of course It Is Impossible for a man of many and large affair to drop bern as he would n garment when he shall have reached n certain age I must now as heretofore keep In touch with many Interests from which I shall nev < I wholly be able lo free myself but many years ago I began to look forward for-ward to GO years of age at a lime when I should have made money enough to realize such ambitions as strongly attract at-tract me outside the world Business and wealthprodurtlon NEEDS NO MONEY This Is all that my nocalled retirement retire-ment means Any man with energy and good fortune ought to be able to devote I his lime to really living after the age of GO I have worked for and won my freedom 1 11 William C Whitney Is more abund ntly equipped for realizing these Ideals ban almost any other man ot prominence promi-nence in lH United Slates The young lawyer of nearly forty years ago Just graduated from Yale who came to New Yorle to fight his way to the top had to work for every step he climbed up the adder ot SUCCOHS Making fame Inspired him long before he making of money proved his many sided talents As n young man Mr Whitney waN fond of books of music o the society of Intellect and he continued con-tinued to foster the Inward resource tnued which should mode the later years of leisure more than resting Idleness When he could afford luxuries his innate In-nate and wholesome love of horses led him lo gratify his Incllnallon but never recklessly or Ignorantly Ills executive and organizing genius arid sound judgment showed In this aa mprefslvcly as In every other occupa ton that has come into his life Mr Whitney built his splendid Wheatlcy stables and became 1 leader In the sport of kings bringing to bear the same abilities which had created the White squadron when he was Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy Uc would rather win the English Derby than be President of tnc United State He would rather call hie time his own than heap 25000000 on top of his presLnl fortune He ha the added responsibility of setting an example for his son harry Payne Whitney and Payne Whitney who gradually assumed as-sumed control of his active Interests Harry Payne Whitney has been already I nnnounccU n the business head of the house WON THE DERBY William C Whitney 13 a keen sportsman sports-man o the lineal type a man of literary liter-ary and artistic tastes a royal host and enjoys gathering his friends around him In his magnificent city and country coun-try homo IlSg great love for racing was shown not alone In his magnificent stables at Whoalley or In his private race course but mon tlculcrly In his elation over the victory of Volodyovskl at Epsom I Ep-som In 1901 Mr Whitney was as much pleased over VolodyovsklH triumph as he would have been over D great political politi-cal or diplomatic victory He tool however none of the credit for It himself him-self John Hugglns In the man who de nerves all the credit for the victory Mil Mr Whitney John Hugglns was Volodyovakla trainer To xhow his appreciation ap-preciation of his trainers efforts Mr Whitney at once upon receiving the news that his horoe had won cabled Instructions to have enough champagne cham-pagne punch served to satisfy all the trainers and all their friends and that It should bo known as n Hugglns punch Unless I am mistaken wild Mr Whitney this la the first time an American owned horse trained by an American and ridden by an American ever has won the Derby I believe an Englishman trained Iroquois when he won the historic event In 18S1 and an English Jockey Archer rode him I YOH In December R0O that a syndicate syn-dicate of which Mr Whltrvy was the head purchased the Saratoga Racing association property at Saratoga Sprlnga SprlngaMAKING MAKING A NEWMARKET The purchase money amounted to 7r cents on the dollar of the original stock suhecnbed or J243760 The new syndicate syndi-cate was compound of Mr Whitney Perry Belmont Alfred Fcalhr tone P n Hitchcock T Hitchcock Jr John Sanford R 1 Wilson Jr J J Alexandra Alex-andra and P J llwyer Mr Whitney wax inside president of the association Then Mr Whitney proceeded to make piano for the present lIne track at Saratoga Sar-atoga Two years ago be remarked thnt Saratoga could easily become theN the-N of America Amorlc Being n ccntloman who has at all times the courage of his convictions he proceeded to spare neither trouble nor expense to make It so Awakening the Interest of his friends In what might best be described de-scribed as the fashionable racing set In less I than two years time he haa proved his statement In 1S91 Mr Gottfried Walbaum formed a syndicate which bought the track and at once began making improvements im-provements Chutes were added to the course and a handsome grand stand replaced re-placed the old rookery A large betting ring was built and the grounds generally ally put In good order In ISOfi a reform re-form wave swept over the town and all gambling places were ordered closecl In consequence the track was closed also Saratogans will long remember re-member tho losses they suffered that year x Upon the passing of the PercyGray racing law among other things the assignment of racing dates was put into the hands of the Jockey club from whom Mr Walbaum wuo unable to secure se-cure freedom from competition by the New York tracks In consequence racing rac-ing Saratoga seemed doomed I was due to an informal discussion over their luncheon between the two gentlemen ono well known In the social and the other In the sporting world that the new order of things came about S PULLS SCHEME THROUGH One proposed that If the other undertook under-took to raise half the money he would raise the remainder and the two would buy the track An opinion was secured on the property Subsequently the option op-tion was turned over to a regularly organized or-ganized stock company Mr JVhltney was interested In the scheme and was unanimously elected president but nt the last moment the plan hung fire All of 10000 was needed need-ed to pull the scheme throu hAt h-At hits juncture Mr W W Worden undertook to sell that much stock In Saratoga The needed sum was secured T > y energctlr personal solicitation From that moment things began to happen But little change was made by the new organization In 1901 although the amount of purses was doubled but Mr Whitney began quietly buying up land adjoining the property on his own re Hponslblllty which he afterward turned over to the association at cost price In this way some fiftysix acres were seen se-en led Turfmen agreed that too much credit could not he given to Mr Whitney forth for-th present fine course There was seldom a Saturday during tho spring that he did not run up to Inspect the progress of the work In person no mat ler how inclement the weather I was Mr Whitneys forceful way of sitting down and making his nrophoeles come true that has brought about the r < all zatlon n his dream of tIlt Newmarket of AraNew York Evening Telegram Tel-egram |