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Show Prospects of -Excellent Season at Old New York Turf Center. AUGUST BELMONT BUYS FAMOUS ENGLISH HORSE Empire City Announces Pro- 'H gramme for Five Days of Trotting Events. ; " BY JAMES DOOKEEAU-. fl By Leased Wire to The Tribune. H NEW YORK. July 30. With many noted turfmen and famous horses already H upon the ground, and some prosect for a H longer mooting than usual, tho old Sara- B tocra, N. Y., race track Is taking a now H leaso of life. Racing and Its attributes of chanco mado Saratoga, famous, and Sara-toga Sara-toga will always have a kindly foellng toward racing and raco men, no matter H to what extent tho sport is cramped by lawmakers. H Racing at Saratoga was conducted last year upon a high plane. The law against open betting was enforced, but thero was no persecution by the officials such as has been the case in the lower part of JM tho state. As a result, the attendance was good aud the old-timers were ablo to bet orally to their hearts' content M The samo conditions will prevail at tho M track this year, for the. anti-oral betting bill will not go into effect until Septem-bcr Septem-bcr 1 and the Saratoga mooting will be over by that Ume. It la estimated that nearly 1000 horses will bo stabled at Saratoga by time for the season to open. Tho Wilson. Keeno. Hlldroth, Belmont, Whitney, Guflncy and other stables will have the cream of their stock there. A notable feature of the racing this ;"H year will be the social events. Mrs. Au-gust Au-gust Belmont. Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, Jr.', Mrs. Sanford, Miss Nolan and other '1 society women have promised to attend -M the meeting; The Saratoga meeting will open on August 4 and will close on Au-gust Au-gust There arc not many men In the world, H even among turfmen, who would pay $125,000 for a horse without a look at him, but August Belmont Is one of tho few, and he made such a purchase when he bought the great English racehorse and stallion, Rock Sand. He has never had a regret for the purchase. Rock Sand has sired the best 2-year-old racers of tho season. Footprint and Trap Rock. They represent his first crop of race-horses race-horses in America. "Why did I buy Rock Sand?" said Mrt B Belmont "For the very good reason that ho was just tho stallion I needed for 'JM my nursery stud. Rock Sand is a 'Stock-well 'Stock-well horse through and through. Because H of that great strain of blood I purchased "Years ago my father had a horso called the Ill-Used. He was very sue-ccssful sue-ccssful nt the nursery stud, being a , 'M Stockwell. Since the death of the TX- Used I have missed that particular strain of blood In my stallions, so I made up my mind to purchase Rock Sand if pos-slblc. pos-slblc. The opportunity presented Itself and I gave orders to my agent in Eng-land Eng-land to buy the horse although I had IH never seen him." H "Don-'t you think it was a plucky thing to buy a horse you had never seen?" "I don't think I took any great chance In the matter." replied .Mr. Belmont with a laugh. "I was familiar with his great 'iH record and I was assured he was a finu :lmmm hor3C. lib was just the type I wanted. .H not too tall, not too big, but symmerrl- 'H cal In ovcry respect" ';H Empiro City Programme. The following- is the official programme iH of the five-day trotting meeting to be held at Empire City, near here, under the auspices of tho Grand Circuit next month: , .,, ' Tuesday. August 232:10 class trotting. ; Speedway stake, first division: 2:12 class , pacing: thrcc-yearrold trotting. Matron ' stake. If Wednesday, August 242:16 class trot- k UM ting, second division; free-for-all class , jH trotting; thvoc-year-old pacing, Matron i stake. , t i mmm Thursday, August 252:16 class trot- i ting, third division; 2:09 class trotting: i 2:0o class pacing. . Fridav. August 262:13 class trotting, J 2:25 class trotting; 2:30 class pacing. , Snturday, August 272:16 class trot- . ting, final, specials and over-night races. immm Two additional stakes, each guaranteed 1 VM for S1500. were added to tho list, and ; one for the free-for-all trot and another t for the 2-05 pace, both of which will ; tm bring together the fastest performers pf i MMm both divisions for a rac- and naturally r; will be two inwrestlng events. i Tho Sweepstake event, which was fav- mmm ored by a majority of members, was , i dropped, because tho event was to be I- mmm 1 for three-year-olds, and as the two dl- , vmmm 1 visions of the Breeders' Matron Flakes w Mmm aro already on the card, a third race for f voungsters was deemed Inadvisable. mmm ' What Saturday's specials and ovor- ; Vmm night cvonts will bo has not yet been IH settled definitely, but olllclnl announce- , M monts will be made In time for entries. , In deciding these events spoclal attcn- Wm tton will bb paid to the horses ii tho . mmm racing stables, and If possible the over- Jmmm night races will be arranged with a view immm to helping non-winners to earn somo , MMM ""with tho Matron stako the total ! IH amount to bo distributed among contond- mm ins horses at Empire City track vill be , W nearly $30,000, or up to Grand Circuit . mmm StMkkcv Shannon, tho well-known turf- , man, sends word .fJ"? ?";. lvt' MM that ho will open a j.unllu stable at the mm Kentucky association course. r TJhlan's Great Record. j MM When Uhlan trotted a mile In 2:0I to wagon, at Cleveland, O. rofntly, driven ) Wmm bv his amntour owner, C. K, G. Billings ( mm of Now York, ho made a. performance ,; jjm that has novor boon equaled by a. trot- ting horse so early in the soason. Lou i Dillon trotted In 2:00 to wagon In Octo- , bor. 1003. but her performance was made . Jm with the aid of a wind shield which It (- V-WM hV estimated helps a horse .about four i. H seconds or moru, ;um, "".o- i mod" cannot be regarded as qnlto the h gU emml of Uhlan's mile. This Is the Urat E tin that the horso hns beat 2 OS. in his, fgm work this year, and the fact that ho can mMM pull a wagon In record tlino, Hrlven oy H an amateur who Is twonty-llvo or thirty ; 'mWM pounds overweight, has convinced a J gU creat many horsomon that the olack son . mm ft Blngen can trot In 2:00 or bettor this yOwIng to the tomporary recognition of jj performances made with a wind . shlold, mmm Lou Dillon la credited In tlni . year book mmM with a trotting record of 1:584, but iio mmm horso of her gait has ever gone a mile U9M better than 2;01 under normal conditions. mmm and this is the mark at which all f mmm aspirants for record honors nowadays aim. , mmm ihb wind ahlold record having bcen-dls- mmm credited by the action of tho National. J MMm Trotting association. K jH Uivt year at Cleveland Uhlan after tak- . W Ing a little tho worst of the start, trotted j t mmm on the outside of Hamburg Belle from Continued on Following Pag. f jH GOOD RACING FOR SARATOGA Continued From Preceding Page, start to finish and forced her out In 2:01i. An unfortunate clrcumstanco of a lost boot distanced Uhlan In tho next heat, but Mr. Billings fully appreciated tho greatness of his losing performance and opened negotiations for his purchase. Shortly after Uhlan turned the tables on the maro at Boston he 'was sold to Mr, Billings for 35,000. Tommy Burn3 Is preparing to break Into In-to tho riding game again Tommy has dono llttlo work in the saddle slnco his return from France. Burns believes that he can reduco to 101 pounds and hopes to regain somo of his old-time prostlgo on tho American turf. It will not bo long now until turfmen are preparing for the winter meets at California, Florida and Mexico. 1 learn that tho anti-racing people of California, encouraged by Governor Glllott's stand against prize fighting, are going to make another strenuous effort this fall to kill tho race gamo at Emeryville, |