The Washington times., 1901-08-07
SARATOGA'S RACE SEASON.
No Doubt as to the Success of the
August Meeting.
Every Hotel Crowded and Conscry-
atiye Estimates Place the Popuia-
tion of the Village Communities
About the Springs mt 10000.

ative Estimates Place the PopuIa-
tion of the Village Communities
About the Springs mt 10000.
SARATOGA, n. Y, Aug. 6-There can
no longer be the least doubt now that
the present Saratoga race meeting, the
first under the auspices of the group of
metropolitan turfmen With William {.
Whitney at their head who bought out
Gottfried Walbaum and organized the
new Saratoga Racing Association. is
going to be big success. Everybody who
is anybody around the New York tracks
is here and several thousand Westerners
have come on to help the game along.
THE grandstand. paddock. and betting
ring yesterday reminded one of Sleeps
head Bay in the fall of a good Western
year, when all the sage bush and blue
grass horsemen have come cunning for
big prizes Fasteners and Westerners
alike have their stables with them and
are training day by day for the races.
They are here to run this year. not to rest
up in order to win the rich fall prizes.
The Saratoga programme, which IN the
matter of special prizes is first-class. even
when judged by the strictest metropolitan
standards has proven sufficiently attrac-
tive to bring all the cracks out. The card
for yesterday, which was as good as any
offered at Sheepshead Bay during the re-
cent June meeting of the Coney Island
Jockey Club. may be taken as an indi-
cation of what is to come on big days,
and the card for today-an off day-is in
dicative of what is to come on ordinary
occasions. The weather has been good
and all the horses are fit.
Some of the prominent metropolitan
-ss1 !, 1.fr frthl loo
are Mr. Whitney, who deferred a trip to
Europe in order that he might personally
attend to his duties as president of the
association; Francis r. Hitchcock. the
owner of The Goldfindcr; Col. James E.
Pepper. the. owner of King Pepper and
WhislSey King: Andrew Miller. who
bought half a dozen good horses at
Brighton; Clarence Mackay, owner of the
Kentucky Derby winner, His Eminence,
the four-year-old mare Kamara and half
a dozen othei cracks; Jack Follansbee.
whose colors were made famous at Brigh-
ton by the exploits of Cameron and Roe
hampton; John f. Madden, the owner of
Blue Girl, the greatest two-year-old fily
that has been seen in these parts in many
years; Richard T. Wilson. jr.. the owner
of The Par<der, the winner of the Law
renee Realization; William II. Sealey. in
whose colors John Sanford S Rockton won
the Saratoga Handicap yesterday; James
II. Mccormick the owner of Alcedo. the
Suburban winner; William Lakeland, the
owner of Ogden; Philip j. Dwyer, August
Belmont, Peter WINNER 1nomas Hitch
cock, jr., the owner Of Nones; Robert Lee
Rose, John w. Rogers, John McCafferty,
Louis NJ. Meyers, James II. Bradford. Col.
II. d. Mcintyre, Albert Featherstone, the
owner of Hatasoo and Disadvantage, two
of the speediest FLIES of the year; Mich
ael Murphy. of Philadelphia; +. Wynd-
ham Walden, Alfred Hennsn n Morris, SEN
ator Pat McCarren, of Brooklyn; David
Gideon, John DAILY, Gen. F. c. McLewee,
Green B. Morris, George +. johnson, Will
liam L. Oliver. William l.. Powers, Frank
Farrell. Charles F. Hill, and julius Bauer.
Among the recently arrived Westerners
are Col. Jack Chinn. of Lexington, and
his son. Phil; WoodfoFd Clay, j. IL. Nc
Avoy, Waterson- ShOwalter. whose four
year-old filly, Smoke. won her fourth
straight race yesterday; John w. Schoor,
OF Memphis, the owner of Silverdale the
St. Louis Derby winner and Lady Schoor,
the Kentucky Oaks winner: j. Il. Sea-
gram. Of Toronto; William Hendrie, of
Ottawa; Capt. Sam Brown, of Pittsburg,
the owner of Hyphen; NJ. H. Tichner VIII
T. Shafer. the owner of Terminus. { nd
William II. jackson, Jr. AS to casual
visitors, men and women. hure merely for
itauts agree that all previous records are
broken.
Every hotel. boarding house cottage
and stable kitchen is fun to the doors
Conservative estimates place the present
population Cf the village communities
about the Springs at i0UD. Others not
conservative make it 5e.G9. No matter
which estimate is correct it is "A certainty
that folks who did not make arrange
ments for rooms and board some three
weeks ago are having to camp out and
hustle and are faring badly They can
not get into any of the big hotels for love
or money.
The crowd at the race track yesterday
afternoon numbered S000. when all noses
were counted. 1t would require popula-
tion OF at least 10000 to send out such a
gathering, for everybody did not come
here to go to the races, although the
races were a tremendous attraction. The
picturesque grandstand was packed from
the bottom row to the top, the paddocBS
and lawns and promenadeS were active
from the beginning to the end of the
afternoons s sport, with hurrying bettors
and sightseers, and the betting ring
strikingly suggested the Sheepshead Bay
enclosure on Suburban day. There were
fifty-eight Metropolitan Turf Association
layers on stools, and they were kept
hustling. The crowd had plenty of money
and wanted to bet it. II bet intelligently.
too, which is unusual on big days and
went home with much of the money the
bookmakers had won AT Brighton. Ig-
what did the business. The spectators
We're handled very cleverly by the officers
Of the new association. and there We're
no complaints of bad treatment or indif-
ference. The Saratoga track is in eX-
cellent shape this year. 1t is faster than
1t ever was before although not so fast
as the Sheepshead Bay and Brighton
courses. Frank Clark, the Sheepshead
Bay superintendent, who is filling the
same job here. out of Difference to the
wishes of the horsemen. has cut the soil
to depth of about inch and a half.
Many complaints were made to him in
June that the Sheepshead Bay course was
so hard il was breaking the best horses
down. He did not want to have any more
such kicks. Mr.. Clark's decision as to
the treatment of the track has met with
the approval of Mr. Whitney and the
other officers of the Saratoga Association,
also of Philip J. Dwyer. Thomas Hitch
cock. jr.. and Walter S. Vosburgh, the
stewards of the meeting.
AMERICAN HORSES WIN.