The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-30
SARATOGA TO HAVE.
GREATEST SEASON
| in MANY YEARS
No Less Than 70 Stake
Events Listed for 30
day Meeting
BY MAX RIDDLE
NEA Service Turf Writer

/
Saratoga Springs, July 30.-Per-
haps no other race track in the
world offers such a stake program
as the one listed at the historic
course here starting on July 20. No
less than SO stake events are to
contested during the S0-day meet
ing.
The deep, well-cushioned track
will draw Omaha, Discovery, Vav-
alcade, King Saxon, Identify, Black
Helen and practically all of the
other stars. Probably every high
class 2-year-old will compete in the
brilliant Juvenile numbers.
Omaha is to appear in the Trav-
ers at a mile and quarter and
the Saratoga cup at one and three
quarter miles. The Travers is the
Oldest stakes in the United States,
having been originated in 1864
The Saratoga cup is only year
younger.
Other of the more attractive
Saratoga features are the Saratoga
handicap at a mile and a quarter,
which originated in 1901, and the
Alabama stakes at a mile and a
quarter for 3-year-old FLIES, rfist
run in 1872.
The juvenile fixtures include the
Hopeful; the Flash stakes, which
dates back to 1863; the U. s. Hotel
stakes, which came into being in
1880; the Grand Union Hotel
stakes; the Saratoga special; and
the Spinaway stakes for FLIES, first
contested in 1881.
From the Ends of the Continent
On July 20, Saratoga Springs,
which boasts normal population
of less than $4,000, will swell to
metropolis of close to $4,000 as
the country's strangest social whirl
begins. Blue bloods will mingle
freely with all the heterogeneous
elements OF the American picture.
Mans most universal sport will
draw these people from the ends OF
the continent. It will draw the
strange denizens from Broadway,
creatures who seldom see the light
Of day and who-until late July
or August brings the Saratoga sea-
son-seem unaware that people
live or thrive off, Broadway.
Saratoga will open its racing
plant for the 66th TIME since Will
lam c. Whitney, founder Of the
vast racing interests of the Whit
ney tribe, and r. T. Wilson bought
it and once more restored it to
good standing in the turf world
Saratoga today is just as truly q
great racing center as is Ascot OF
Epsom-and far more unique.
The celebrated water even bene-
fits the horses.
The evenings bring the yearline
sales, and society attends in full
dress regalia.
After that there are the nigh
spots, supper clubs, and gambling
emporiums, which, though not 81
pubhcized, serve just as well as tn
old Canfield palace which is nov
a museum.
Immortals Thud History of Racing
Daybreak is the time the stables
come to life and the dyed-in-the.
wool fans go out into the smoking
dawn to watch the horses train
Nor is there anything more lovely
than the sight of purebred horses
coming out of the fog, their sheets
making them look for all the
world like medieval chargers.
Here, since Kentucky won tht
first Travers, the turf's immortal!
have thudded a history of racing
Virtually every great horse of the
turf has striven here-incompar
able Ruthless, Duke Of Magenta
Hindoo, Man o. War, Twent!
Grand, Gallant Fox and Equipoise
Training ceases at 10 o'clock ant
then perhaps you will nap. Blu
no, the baths beckon you and yol
will go out to get some of tn,
| poisons Of the previous days living
out Of you. And then it is race
time.
You dress for the races, becaus,
Saratoga's swanky clubhouse per
mits no one to attend In shir
sleeves or without tie. To be hat
less is to be frowned upon. Yoi
| are at Saratoga. You must act th'
part, To you tradesman, tout, train
or, or courtesan.
After the races comes cocktail
time when men and women tall
over their winnings or their losses
the performances Of the superl
horses, or the styles worn by thu
rich.
This gray round Of activity con
tinues until that great distanc,