New-York tribune., 1915-02-16
RACING PLANS AT
SARATOGA SPRINGS
Meeting to Begin on First
Monday in August-To
Run Full Month.
CITIZENS ASKED TO
SUBSCRIBE ONCE MORE
Amount Needed, However, Will
Not Exceed $4,000, and This
May Be the Last Call.

Racing at Saratoga Springs this year
will begin on Monday, August 2, and
continue until August 81. These are
the dates that have been chosen by the
association. and it has been the custom
OF the Jockey Club to set aside that
month for the sport at the Springs.
/ The plans for next August were
/ made known by A. Mel. Earlocker,
/ racing secretary, at recent dinner OF
| the Business Mems Association held
/ at Newman's Lake House, Saratoga. II
was also made known at the same time
| that the citizens of Saratoga will again
| be asked to subscribe TO a fund to help
out the sport.
Addressing those present, Mr.. Ear
/ locker said:
"The Saratoga Association has ap-
/ piled TO the Jockey Club for the full
/ month Of August, and we hope to OBJ
/ tain the meeting dates from Monday,
August 2, until Tuesday, August 81.
/ Last year, to be exact, the citizens
of Saratoga subscribed S6,l54 26. To
this the gentlemen of the Owners Fund
added $3.50, as they promised. The
total, a trihe more than $4,000, was
of great value in helping to defray the
expenses of the meeting.
"Our stakes amounted to about
| s83 900. No other association, | be-
| lieve, gave such a large amount in pro-
portion to the receipts. The Saratoga
Association has always conducted high
class. clean racing. and always expects
TO do go. This year, for the last time,
il Is hoped, we shall probably be forced
to call upon Saratoga for aid to the
sum of about $4,000.
THE association does not receive
any remuneration from any sources
| except that which is paid for admis-
sion to the racecourse, the catering
privileges, stall rents and surplus bids
in selling races and the money that is
donated by the merchants and citizens
of Saratoga and the gentlemen that do
nate the Owners Fund. Had it not
been for the extremely bad weather
conditions of the last two days of the
1914 meeting, on which we ran our
most costly stakes, the association
would have made considerable money.
On account of the storm we lost al
most $4,000 on the two days"
Walter o. Farmer, of the Edenwold
Stud, in Tennessee, has imported the
English stallion Assagi, which will take
the place of The Commoner at his
breeding farm. This horse arrived on
the Atlantic Trar sport liner Minneapo-
lis on Friday, and he has since been
shipped to Tennessee. On the same
steamship were three thoroughbred
hunters that were consigned to Harry
Payne Whitney, and they have been
sent to the Brookdale Farm in New
Jersey.
ri a.. -
ing stable of David Stevenson will go
under the hammer at Van Tassell &
Kearney's sales ring, in East Thir-
teenth Street. In the lot are Syosset,
j. J. Lillis and Beverly James. Syos-
set was q frequent winner through the
steeplechase field last year, while both
j. j. Lillis and Beverly James are win
ners. Mr.. Stevenson is also selling
out all of the stable tack" and will re-
tire from the sport this season.
Lucien Lyme, who has ridden with n
full measure of success on both sides
of the Atlantic, is back from abroad
and was a visitor at the Offices Of the
Jockey Club yesterday. He is on his
| way to his home in Kentucky.
Sam Edwards is authority for the an
nouncement that Patsy McDermott is
to return to the saddle this year. Nc
Dermott, several seasons back, was a
rider of Importance. and since his re-
tirement from the saddle he has raced
horses of his own. He is still close to
riding weight, and should he make up
his mind to have another try he will
be in ready demand.
Cash Sloan, another of the oldtime
riders, and an elder brother of J. Tod
hunter Sloan, has gone on the stage
Cash made his first appearance yester-
day in a thriller, in which he rides
winner, saves the old home and mar
ries the heroine. One of his few lines
is the spurning of bribe.
"Noi There has not been enough
money minted to make me turn crook
never pulled horse in my life and
I'll not start now" he shouts.
It was written TO earn big hand,
but all that came to the luckless Cash
was BOO"