The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
THE SARATOGA SPECIAL
4 Great Racing Event Promised for
the Coming Summer.
Four New Subscriptions Received by
the Secretary of the Association.
The Contest Likely to Eventually
Attain Value of S25,

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the Secretary of the Association.
The Contest Likely to Eventually
Attain Value of $4,000
NEW YORK. March f3-Four new sub
scriptions to the $1,000 Saratoga Special
Sweepstakes for two-year-olds have been
received by Col. H. d Mcintyre. racing
secretary Of the Saratoga Association,
and the indications are that within q
week or ten days fifteen or twenty more
viii have come in
The new subscribers are August Bel
mont, chairman of the Jockey Club;
James H Hagin. the proprietor of the FL
mcndorf and Rancho del Paso studs;
Capt. Sam Brown, of Pittsburg. and
Michael Murphy, of Philadelphia. The
subscriptions Of these new men added to
the subscriptions of the original thirteen
james r Keene, William c. Whitney,
FhiI J. Dwyer, Richard T Wilson. jr-;;
John z. Madden, the Morris Brothers,
David Gideon, Francis II. Hitchcock. Per
ry Belmont, Harry X Knapp, julius
FIeischmann, Jack FoIIansbee, and Sen
ator Pat NcCarren-sweu the total to
seventeen Seventeen subscribers would
he enough to give the special a place Of
high importance on the metropolitan cal
endar.
The additions viii carry it SO much
higher, and it is syfe to predict that no
special for two-year-olds, save the Futu-
rity, will be So valuable and popular. The
Futurity has The immense advantage OF
being an old race run at SheepShead Bay
track, the Oldest and most popular race
course in this part of the country and
easy of access to a great metropolitan
centre of nearly 5000, 900 population, count
ing the Jersey towns across the Hudson,
which are really a part Of New York and
would be included within it's corporate
limits u it were not for an arbitrary
State line.
If the Saratoga Special were run at a
track as easy to get to as Sheephead Bay
it would inevitably become a more pop
ular race than the Futurity. It is purely
sportsman's affair and an affair for
sportsnen with money. Men Of modest
means had best let it alone
Each man who enters into It puts up
subscription OF $1,000, which gives him
the right TO nominate three two-year-elds
colts FLIES or seidings, it does not mat
ter which. He puts up his money IN mid
winter before he knows anything about
his youngsters, thus entering blindly- In
the spring and early summer he can try
them out and when the day cones he
may start the one that has shown the
highest form. II none has done well
enough to make starting worth while he
VIII get back $500 half the original fee.
The purse viii be made up entirely by
subscribers. The only contribution the
Saratoga Racing Association viii make
from year to year VIII be a piece of plate
valued at $500 Seventeen subscriptions
in race OF this character and of the
Kind the Saratoga Special has received
presuQposes a field Of ten starters, so
that q $l3. SO event is already in sight. The
addition Of fifteen names would increase
thu number Of starters to sixteen or sew
enteen and give the race value be
tween $20,0 900 and S25,190, mere than such
races as the Great Trial, Junior Champ
on, and Matron are worth and almost as
much as the Futurity pays.
Colonel Mcirtyre's belief that he viii
receive fifteen or twenty new sllbscriu-
tons is well founded. The race was not
announced until late and it took some
time TO advertise il extensively. The thir-
teen original subscribers and the four
who have more recently Joined ere men
who live close to New York and heard Of
the race directly IT was announced. Cor
rsspondinS1y cordial support may reason
( ably be expected from remOter parts OF
the country
Among the prominent Western men
VINO may be expected to take q hand are
Charles Head Smith. of Chicago the man
/ who brought Lieutenant Gibson East in
1888 TO win the Flatbush Stakes at
Sheepskead Bay and Garry Hermann
last season TO defeat the nletroDoIita41
cracks IN the Champagne at Morris Park;
Albert F'eatherstone, OF Chicago, one of
the most heavily Interested members of
the Saratoga promotion scheme. Col
James Z. Pepper, Of Lexington the pro
prIetor OF MeadOWthOTpe stud, who has
bred some of the fastest two-year-oIds We
nave tad n years john f SchoTr. Of
Memphis: Clarence II. AIackey, Green Z
/ motifs Pat Dunno. Ma }Or b. @. Thomas
7 young VIII jackson. the son and heir of
The proprietor Of Belle Meade, Prince
POnfatGws5i. the boss OF IueIesid- and
! 'Fanf9ran tracks at San Francisco; Burns
I q " aterhouse, his rivals, and Barney
Mr, MacIley lives ia New York, but he
/ has only entered the game on an extern
size scale within the last few months and
IL is probable that tte Saratoga Special
mas escaped MS notice He has several
promising tWO-yeaT -OIdS. bought for him
I by Lord CloulDeIl al the recent sale Of the
( thoroughbred stock Of The late Marcus
Daily : estate, whose names would look
( well on the Saratoga Special eligible list
5 Mr. FedtherSLOne would have been one of
/ the original subscribers II he had been
! here 70 attend the meeting Of The stock
/ holders a watch II was decided to give
: the race He was away in Europe on his
/ honeymoon, and Julius Bauer his train
! er and agent did not feel authorized to
/ enter III 50 Important q race without
! direct orders MIR Eeatherstone has 4
| number of promising youngsters IN MI
/ Bauer hands -doEn ID keHtuck y--half-
! brothers TO Black FOX. Mesmerist, Mis-
/ Sionary. etc. The Sca3rrs have = stronger
stable Of youngsters this year. Memphis
! horSeTnen say. than they had last season,
! the season that Witnessed the debut Of
/ Aiard Schack, Lady ScnUrr, Joe Frey, and
SHY erdaIe- Colonel Pepper is also well
( supplied with tWO-Eear-OldS and has been
/ a liberal nominat0r III the good two-year-
! Old races scheduled fer decision at Grave
I send. Morris Park, Sheepshead Bay, and