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Show FOR THE PONY LOVERS nnn nnn nnn1 nnn TURF NEWS AND YARNS By JACK SALLEE. I LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 29. The eyes of the turf world are no longer centered upon Hawthorne, Canada or Kentucky they have been turned toward to-ward the east. Saratoga, one time leader of all American race tracks, which aunually drew thousands to the Spa to witness the clashing of the great-, est of American thoroughbreds, opens Monday and will continue throughout August. Early reports indicate that the sport at the Spa will be even better than a year ago, when Saratoga regained re-gained much of its pristine glory. The headliner of the opening day, Moudav, will be the Saratoga handicap, handi-cap, which has drawn a brilliant field of stake horses. The foreign angle is stronger in the race than it has been in the past and some of the English-bred English-bred cracks have been in this country long enough to become acclimated and are expected to make a strong showing. Though many of the horses in the race were recently imported from England, one of the real contenders in the event is Emil Hera's Short Grass, an imported im-ported animal that has run with credit in this country for the past several seasons. sea-sons. The Herz gelding has been showing show-ing up better in the past months than formerly, and for that reason Handicap-per Handicap-per Vosburgh has accorded him top weight. Koamer, with four pounds less 128 is given second place. The weights then scale down to 90 pounds, which is given Square Deal II. and Indian In-dian Chant. Foreign Horses Entered. Among the entrants that have come from the British isles are Short Grass, Henley II., Xylon, Koval II., Indiscreet, Frizzle, Chicle. Star Hawk, Clapperbill, Maintenant, Neville II., Chicklet, Heather Moon and Square Deal II. France is represented by Mont d'Orr, Allumeur and Esconaba. With 6uch a galaxy of foreign stars in the race it is naturally considered a most open race. There aro more foreign horses in the Saratoga handicap Monday than have been named to start in an event in America back to a time "when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." con-trary." Among the horses which have gotten into the' race extremely well is Old Koe-nig. Koe-nig. winner of several events in Kentucky Ken-tucky this year. Old Kocnig may not last out a route, but he will be a hard horse to beat over the sprint distance. At that, if it is figured he will quit after going six furlongs and no other horses go out with him the three-year-old is liable to prove a" hard nut to crack. Hawthorne's betlcss meeting has bpen proving a success. At first there was a dearth of horses, but with the closing at Windsor enough stables went over to the Windy City to make the sport interesting. " Tho patrons of the game in Chicago found the sport highly entertaining, and enough of them went out to Hnwthnrne each day to put the jockey club ahead when it comes to funds. No Trouble to Bet. There was plenty of wagering for those who were inclined to back their judgment. Some of the best known men who laid odds in former days were out on the block at Hawthorne. It was not wide open betting, but even the uninitiated unini-tiated were able to find themselves a bookmaker who was willing to accept their wagers. The stable of Weber & Ward, the Kentucky horsemen, by virtue of Dodge's victory in the American Derby, leads all money winners. Incidentally, Franklin earned his board while at Hawthorne. Ho ran third in the Derby and then earned another purse for his owners while waiting until time to bo shipped to Saratoga. Dodge was injured while at the post several days ago, but is about ready to go to the races again. He will make his next start at Saratoga. Sara-toga. The stable will be 6hipped east tomorrow night. Despite racing at Empire City and Chicago, Hamilton opened Wednesday for a seven-d3y meeting with plenty of good horses on hand and a whaling big crow. Is in attendance. The paris-niutuels, according to turfmen ns well as racing officials, have been the cause of tho Fport reaching a much higher plane than had been expected just now. Canadian ; officials have always been much stricter than those on other courses, but now and then trouble would crop up, but this summer the purses have been bier enough for the horsemen to leave off plunging, inasmuch ns most of the money was sent back to the betting ring." Plenty of Money. Another reason why things have been going better across the border than usual is that there is the proverbial ton of money wagered by the natives through the machines 'on every race. Horsemen are now making smaller wagers wa-gers and sending their money through ' the machines, taking fair prices for small bets rather than odds-on for big ""John Sanford, owner of Georga Smith, will augment his string shortly by the addition of throe yearlings by the great horse Tracery. The master oi the Hurricane Hurri-cane stud has gone in more heavily than any of the other wealthy Americans who have taken to breeding thoroughbreds thorough-breds again. If he gets results with these offsprings of the famous Tracery he should have one of the most formidable formid-able stables in the country next 6eason. Miller Henderson has closed a contract con-tract with John E. Madden to campaign cam-paign eight horses for the master of Hamburg this fall. P. J. Miles has been asking that tho present rules regarding the selling races be changed in one respect that winners win-ners be bid up from the amount beginning begin-ning with the entered price plus the purse. His idea is that if a horse wins a selling raco and is entered for $600 and the race is worth $400 that the first bid that should be accepted ought to be an advanco over $1000. As the rules now stand a horse entered for $(100 may be advanced from that price, it being figured that the owner does not value his horse at more than his entered price and that if he wins that he will receive $1000 for him. The claiming rule is in keeping with the bidding-up rule. If a horse is entered for $000 in a selling event and fails to win he may be claimed for his entered price plus the price of the purso. It is doubtful if the ruling will be changed, inasmuch, as it coincides with the claiming rule. Marion Wins One. "Uncle" Lew Marion has won one race so far in Canada. The veteran horseman took Little Nephew, Prince Hermis and a few others over into the dominion to try and lay up winter money. So far he has not done well. The one-time trainer of the queen of thoroughbreds, Yo Tambien, says that all he has against the Canadians is that they do not give a farmer the kind of tood he wants. When at home "Uncle" Lew invariably expresses his love for his country by declaring "it is a great country we stole from, the Indians." One day Marion was standing in front of the grandstand when Jockey Roscoo Goose went to sleep on Prince Hermis and got that sterling horse beaten a lip in a handicap. The old man was burning up by degrees.- One of his friends asked him if he still thought this was such a prize that we had taken from the Indians. "Well," Teplied Marion, "we may have stolen the country from them, but just now I feel like the Indians have other ways of getting back at us, " |
