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WE8TBURY TO BE ABANDONED. Saratoga, N. Y., August 15. W. C. Whitney has decided to abandon his magnificent Westbary stables as a retreat for his horses in training. There is in connection with the establishment, besides the barn which alone cost 00,000, a first-class regulation mile track. Many high priced horses have in the last few years been ruined by the yearly epidemic of influenza, which regularly visited the place, and the latest victim to be retired is the in? comparable filly, Endurance by Right, for which Mr. Whitney paid J. W. Schorr 0,000. Hopelessly wind broken she was shipped today to La Belle stud farm at Lexington, Kentucky, for breeding purposes. John W. Gates left this afternoon for Denver. Tho Keene stable this season has one of the most formidable string of two-year-olds ever Been in one establishment in this or any other country and it appears that a strong effort is now being made to secure the services of a half dozen of the best jockeys obtainable to ride as many probable starters from that one stable in the Futurity. An interesting and characteristic incident came to light when the announcement was made today that J. E. Madden had paid jeckcy Wiasic OConnor a retainer of ,000 for first call on his services for the next thirty days, which bridges over tho time when the great Coney Island event is to be decided. John W. Schorr today bought of B. Vincent for ,000 the fast two-year-old colt Bonsonhurst. S. S. Brown also disposod of River Plrato to J. E. Mad-don and T. Hitchcock, Jr., for ,000. Athel, the Goughacres stable candidate in the United States Hotel Stakes to be run tomorrow, worked six furlongs Thursday morning in l:13. Skilful, C. R. Ellisons recent purchase at the Mackay sale, turned the same distance in a shade; loss than 1 :14. L. Jackson was set down three days for foul riding on The Cuckoo in tho fifth race Thursday. The famous and much traveled Nasturtium has arrived here from Whitneys place on Long Island, J. B. Haggin is now sole owner of the colt, he hav ing bought him jointly with Mr. Whitney from A. L. Aste last year, and he will be shipped to Elmea-dorf at an early date for stud purposes. Flying Buttress was claimed out of the third race today by M. J. Cavanagh. Larry Waterbury, the crack polo player, has made an -important addition to his already growing string of race horses by purchasing the fast western filly Clorita. Ho has announced his intention to race at New Orleans this coming winter.
