Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 18 | Saratoga Revises Racing Schedule

SARATOGA REVISES RACING SCHEDULE Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK, July 11. Saratoga is to have a race meeting as usual this year. The plans for the meeting were never abandoned, but thero wns a feeling in some quarters that the association might try to escape responsibility In view of the anti-betting law. The association, however, 1ms gamely decided to go through with its meeting under slightly altered arrangements. There will be eleven days of sport at the Spa. and possibly more. As Secretary Erlocker says, tho association knows it is facing a loss, still If it doesn't reach stupendous proportions and tho nocossary other arrangements ar-rangements can be made, the meeting Is likely to be lengthened beyond the eleven days planned at present. To go on with the meeting as scheduled the association had to use the bluo pencil liberally on the original stake programme. Fifteen stakes on tho flat and four steeplechases stee-plechases had to be cut out, among them the Great Republic, tho Saratoga handicap, handi-cap, the Saratoga cup, tho Merchants and Citizens handicap, the Champion, and so on to the number of fifteen. Of these five will be refrained under different differ-ent conditions, meaning a reduction In value. Theso are the Saratoga Special, which will bo worth $1500, the Merchants and Citizens. 51500; the Catskill. $1000. and the Beverlck steeplecase, of $1200 value. The big stakes that remain Intact are tho Hopeful, with a valuo of $35,000: the Splnaway, worth 10,000; the United States Hotel stakes, $10,000; the $10,000 Grand Union; the Flash, $6000; tho Travels, Trav-els, $7500. won by Frank Gill last year, and the Alabama, worth $5000.