The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
.BGI FEATURE
 AT SARATOGA
 FOR THIS WEEK
By o'NEIL SEWER.

saratcga Springs, New York, Aug 5. The Saratoga race meeting of 1919 was auspiciously inaugurated last Friday with tho running of the Flash stakes, the Shillelah steeple- chaso and the Saratoga handicap. First class sport was furnished Sat urday when the United States Hotel stakes, one of the star two-year-oId attractions of the twenty-six days program. and the Kenner, the sec epd bcst of the specials for the three faear olds, exclusively, were divided. But the second week of racing at Saratoga is always the banner week and this seasons second week will be no exception to the rule
 Brilliant sport will be crowded Into the impending six days. Yesterdays g feature was the Lake George han dicap; another ga1lop of one mile for three year o1ds and over will be run today; the Albany, a handicap for two year olds at three-quarters Of a mile will be run on Wednesday; the Alabama, n gallop of one milo and a quarter for three year olc lilies. on Thursday: the Mechanic vile, a gal1op of one mile for the threc year olds and over on Friday: and the North American steeplechase, tho Special. and the Champlain han dicap will be run on Saturday.
 Tho feature of the week, of course will be the Special. The Special is tho most sportsmnnlike of American racas. It is a subscription event in which the horsemen make up the purse. the only contribution of the Saratoga Association. being piece oi gold plato, which Is the prize of the winner. The subscription Is $500, the forfeit s25O, and, generally, the Special is the two-year old cham pionship event of the season. Sub scribers are not required to make their nominations before June 15. nfter their trainers have had ample time in which to get an accurate line on their two-year-o1d stuff. IL at tracts the best youngsters fin the rtnblcs of the subscribing horsemen because men are not In the habit of having $500 to run youngsters Of dlf- fercnt quality in races of any kind
 This year. u1luckily, the Special will not be the championship race of the juvenile division because it hap pens that neither Man O War. nor Miss Jefnirua, not High Command, The crack youngsters of the establish ments of Samuel D. Riddle. Charles F. Rowe. and Major Thomas Clay Me Dovycii is eligible to start Louis Ecu Rtel. Mir. Riddles trainer, overlooked tho. Special when the time came to make subscriptions last winter.
 Major Mcdowell did not subscribe becquso he had just repurchased from tho Bri-ton stable several of the year ungs he had sold by auction at Sara tora in August, High Command among them. and he had not had a chlnce to break these yearlinss. He did not know what he had Charles Rowe did not subscribe because he had no idea in January that in the -noothiy turned daughter of Black 'Topey and Vaila he had acquired in -he fall from Edward R. Bradley there Ivns the making of a two-year- old of championship quality. Miss Jcrr1irna is a development of winter racing at New Orleans with Ken lucky finish.
 Miss Jcrnima Out.
 But if it is disappointing that Miss Jernina. Man Q War. and High Com rnand are not eligible to start in Sat urday's renewal of the Special, th' special will at least attract all thu other good youngsters that are here and ready for the co1ors.
 Prominent among the western can dtdates i, Nr Rradley's By Golly, q smart son of Helmet and Acutissima which the Kentuckians believe to b' very- nearly. if not quite, as goo' a colt as High Compand. Franl FarrelIs Lady Brummel Is a poten tiai starter. as arc Edward Cebrian Ace of Trunnps. Philip A. C1arl<'s Bon nie Mary. the winner at Belmon Park and Aqueduct of the Juvenil
 stakes. NV R Goes Cinderella. winner of the Colo rado at Jamaica; Mrs. Walter M. Jcf fords Hoodwfnk. a winner at Aque duct- and Golden Broom. a French brod yearling that fetched S15,60l -vbcn he was offered at auction her isat s,n,H.er: George w. Lofts s10. ooO z-rince Talatine colt Dona con ,.: Commander Ross's King Thrush also. Royal Jester. an importet younsster by Black Jester, for whic! tho Canadian turfman paid s14.500 a the Toncock sn1e last summer. ant Irish Dancer. son of Gel and Ballet Gi-l. for which h, paid 5000 at the sale of Captain Philip M. Walkers yearlings; Hnrr. Payne whitncy's Sammy. wfldair. Ie vfathan. and Panop1y. the last namet the winner of the Clover and Astori; stakes; Montford Jones's s35.00i Rrookholt; Joseph F. widener's $14, 900 Fair Gain. q strapping son o Culcain and Fairy Gold and a hal brother of F'riar Rock. Fair Play. am F1SttergoId and James w. McCfel lands Hasten On, a light7footed soi of Great Britain.
 UnlSnowns May Show.
 Hasten On. Bonnie Mary, Panoply Cinderella, Leviathan. Ace of Trumps Ioodwink. Lady Brummel. and Kim Thrush are the most highly regarde' of these youngsters now because they have shown winning form unde silks. But 1t is easily possible tha the current weeks racing may dem onstrnte that there are among the un known, or comparatively unknown eligible colts and fi1lies ns good a they. However, none of these un Inowns will come in for an allow ance. In the Special, all starter must pack scale wetsht-colts 12 pounds. fiIies 119. It is because ther are neither penalties nor allowance that the Special Is chamrionshil race. Tho indications are that a fell