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Show FOR THE PONY LOVERS nnn nnn nnn nnn TURF NEWS AND YARNS By JACK SALLEE LOUISVILLE Kj A g 23 The annual smnn er meet ng at Sa a toga vound up th s afternoon and ho semen as veil as mem bers of the -jockey club declaied that the season had been the best s nee 1910 at the Spa Many good horses par t c pated )n the spo t at Saratoga th s sunin er and added m ch mpetus to the b eed ng ot tho oughbreds n the oun try espec all m th m Id e west where the larger nur er cs ot the nat on are th ng Horsemen are d scuss ng Dom nant he c a 1 9 year old wh ch L S Ihonip son s rac ng tor Harry Payne Wh tnej J"he youngste capt ed the Saratoga pe al th s s mmer and the w nners pf that race n the past ha e turned o t o be good racers Among the w nners of the spec al are s ch ho scb as Irish lad Sjsonby, Coin Wa do No e tv Roan er and Regret Bj w nn ng w th Dom nant th s year the V, h tney stable accounted to the event two years n a row as Regret scored n the spec al last year The reco ds of I sh Lad Sysonb , Co 1 n Novelty and Roan er are st 11 i esh the m nds of the lovers of the turf Reg et s victory n the Kentucky derby th s gpr gave her a pecul a n he n the ha 1 of fame for thoro ghb edg as t was the f rst t me u the long h s tory of the class c that a f lly came home ahead of her f eld She d d so n s ch dec s ve fash on that 1 ttle doubt was left as to her t ue supremacy over such sa grand fed as that was that came beh nd her Of the st of w nners of the Saratoga spee al since 1903 when the race was f rst run Waldo was the greate t ds appo ntn ent The youngster was a good one when he won that race and later sco ed se eral b g ctor es He was b ought west to run an the derby of J910 wh ch was wo by Donau Waldo went wrono- on the e e of the lerbv be cause h s owner wanted to see hi u wort He. niured a tendon and s nee then has Dever been the good one he was then He has r n n sel ng aces t me and aga n and unsuccessfully u most of then) There s cons derable d fference between the value of the Saratoga spe c al of th s year wh ch was $512o and n 1903 the year Ar stocracy won when t was worth $21 500 However $o000 stakes are good r ght now n anybody any-body s land Jockey Garner s Record The r ding of Jockey M Garner has been one ot the teat res of rac ng n Amer ca th s year He rode h s t rst w nner at Anaconda last year and s nee then has piloted- 239 winners a new record for the decade for an apprent ce' However h s apprent cesh p has ex p red and the usual f ve pound allow ance is a th ng of the past and may cut a f gure n h s r d ng The next b g feature of the turf s at Belmont Park September 4 when the Tutur ty w 11 be decided Th s ea Harry Payne Wh tney hopes to see h s colt Thunderer wh ch probably w 11 make his f rst Btart of the year m that race come home on the ch n strap Wh tney has been unusually lucky th s year in b g stakes and Tra ner Jimmy Kowe is very sweet on the youngster The railbirds ha e -picked him to w n the class c H D Curley Brown, raci,ng pro moter js now in America looking after the nterest of Oriental park Havana, where he w 11 stage h s second meet ng next w nter in the ,Queen of the An t Ufa D r ng the summer he has had a sh pload of good Amer can dirt taken across to Cuba for a cover ng for the ( uban track I ast w nter the course there was n m serable cond t on most of the t me The d rt over there s not f t for build ng a race track but vith the upper so 1 of Amer can d rt he ex pects t to be the equal of any course n th s country Or ental park as Brown has named the track is one of the most pictur esque courses n the world It is truly trop cal Brown has expended many tho sands Qf dollars n bu Id ng up the place and s conf dent that this year ne w 11 be able to g ve a better meet ner than last winter when the season there was n the- exper mental stage He w 11 have more pan mutuel ma chines n operat on th s vinter than last The f gure that New Orleans will cut n the winter game can hardly be est mated Judge Murphy has made t pla n that there s go ng to te a clean healthy meet ng m the Crescent G ty and that none but horsemen in good stand ng need apply He says le does not want men who gamble heav ly n poolrooms 3everal of the horse men who raced in Kentucky last spring w 11 be den ed rac ng pr v leges there th s w nter It is believed by horse men that the nilux to Kew Orleans this winter will be larger, than last vear by far and that Juarez and Ha vana w 11 suffer accord ngly Jockey R Sh lling a member of the fam ly of famous race riders has been I released by G W fccott and the boy I is now r d ng in Canada as a free lance . He ha3 the earmarks of a great rider ' and t is probable that he w 11 come to Kentucky th s fall and do bght we ght r ding for one of the larger stables Old Man Cnt Again Saratogy Aug '6 15 O a Timer B he time you git this letter I hope to be on my way to Ky with ponys The meeting here was awful good btft bettin was 1 te I lade up a 1 t e b t but not enuf to pay ray way home but pe e sa s he w put me n a car w th the hoeses an that k k n pony The free lunch up here I la g tt n Tjetter an If I kin sneke a few snw tches in my jeans w U be in good shatfe fer the tr p I allowed the Kyans wood be ab e to put over s ra good th ngs in the last few dajs of the mete ng hut they d sap nted us al as sum of the boys is go n to haf to borry to git away inc ud n me I bet 4 do lars on a good th ng the other day an it run last Me 0 d Man Crit, what has been on the turf al these yeres fe 1 fer a tout I hav sevral times p nted out to a operater where he cood g t a bank ro e by follerin ray suggtshuns re gard n the plactn. of h s dough but t certin y betes jacks and 4s when I fel f r one of them guys with a sof voice I never al owed I wood 1 ve to see the day when I wood be sep erated from my ka e by p ac n it n the hands of a plane every day tout but it jus goes to show ou that when a mans losin he wi 1 do anyth n There is a w dder lady up here w th a bank role that wood choke a ba e an she klner fee fer my 1 ne of talk She ast me to call but be n a few checks shy myself I had to refuse the inv te She is a good looker too Ed Ira go n to 6 ck one of them young boys on her She thinks I he se ral good ho ses here an pete to e her I had a b g farm in the B ue Grass with a Manshon on t an she fell fer his lyin r te away lin see myself tide down fer the rest of my natcheral 1 fe carryin a umbarell an a poodel dawg fer a old woman when the thoryb eds is runn n a Churchill Downs on Derb dai Las n te la one eyed bum na e 1 p tim 0 s in to a fite wi h the fi e In a sa oon. They at a 1 over he p ace an thow ed beer bottles a 1 round One thowed a bot e tha ked to hev hit me on the hed Sysonby eouldnt a ketched me Tou say in yor last that you had been fo enn Star Jasmine Wei Ed ou pade fer the mes ge an t looks hka 1 ough er git my b t out of the rrjunny you won. Beln as ts ou f you gimme ten when 1 gi home an see I g t a pass to the races th s fan 111 call it square Trs OLD MAN CRIT |