The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-12
HARRY CRIMSON

Saratoga Springs, Sept. 12-An- other Saratoga meeting has ended, and the natives and number of bookmakers and gaming room pro- prietors are set for another year. Saratoga meetings, like all race meetings, are good for everybody but the players.
 With racing of a higher order than the Spa has witnessed in some years, and with more western horses present, the meeting just concluded was typical Saratoga meeting, even down to an outsider winning the historic Travers Stakes.
 One of the traditions of the fa- nous watering place is that long shot will prevail in the Travers. 1t is the oldest stakes event run for in the United States. It comes in the middle of the summer, when thoroughbreds should be most formful, yet little-liked 3-year- olds capture the event with more or less regularity.
 Gold Foam, a platter which had previous done little to merit any consideration, save to bag the Sem eca Claiming Stakes, in which he was hard pressed, prevailed with som ething to spare. He defeated the highly regarded Good Gamble and St. Bernard. The latter had run a sparkling race to set all the pace in the Arlington Classic in which he was an easy second to Omaha.
 Gold Foam's Tribe Develops Slowly
 Gold Foam is bred well enough, being by Golden Broom ,out of As- sembly, by Man O War.
 Gold Foam was bred by Samuel D. Riddle, whose matchless Man O War took the Travers in 1920. | Riddle also copped the Travers 1 with two sons of Man O War, the renowned Mars, and War Hero.
 Naturally, there was nothing unusual about the victories of Man O. War and Mars, but no one had heard of War Hero until the Sara toga meeting of his 3-year-old year.
 l The early history of the Travers is a record of outstanding animals winning in close and thrilling con- tests. Attila and Acrobat dead heated in 1874. In those days dead heats were decided by run-offs, and Attila took the long end of the swag in a close finish.
 Skipping down the line we come to Petee Wrack which won with a. phenomenal performance ill 1928. Petee Wrack, whose dam was also the mother of Gallant Fox easily repelled the finest field in many years. The celebrated Vic- torian was well beaten and Reign Count, a shining light here and abroad, was dismal last.
 Beacon Hill, a spectacular steeplechaser-gOod evidence that he was no star on the fiat-flnished in front in 1929, but the Travera of 1880 took the prize for upsets. Jim Dandy SIOps Home at 100 to 1 The stage was set for the re- sumption of the intensive warfare between William WOodward's Gall lant Fox, with Earl Sande up, and the Whitney crack, Whichone. In LnelT DTeVlOuS hCCtlHBt SohA0ht Fox had whipped Whichone in a race in which the willy Sande ouf- generated Sonny Workman.
 Gallant Fox and Whichone stood tree top high over all other Amer ican 3-year-olds, and only one other, Jim Dandy, was hardy enough to go out against them.
 It was raining. The track was heavy in mud. Jim Dandy's trainer believed that his colt was good, but his feet were so bad htat he could not race on fast track.
 What happened will never be forgotten. Jim Dandy badly re- pulsed his illustrious rivals to the music of 100 to 1. He chased the gold forever after-and still is-- but the Travers was his one taste of fame.
 Twenty Grand had no peer as 4 3-year-old, and took the biggest share of the sugar going away. Then came War Hero, to be fol-