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MCHESNEY TO GO EAST. Durnell and Herz have sold McChesney to E. E. Smathers for the reported price of 0,000. This is fortunate in that it almost certainly assures his going east next summer to meet Hermis. The lucky Saratoga Club will, no doubt, fall heir to the most sensational race of the year, provided always that both horses remain in good form. McChesney can be entered in a number of rich stakes at Saratoga, and also in the fall stakes at all of the New York tracks. He is now heavily engaged at Memphis, Nashville, Louisville and Chicago, and will probably fill most of his western engagements before being taken east. He can do that with ample time left in which to take him on to Saratoga for a rest before the meeting there opens. If he is entered in the 2,000 Saratoga Handicap we shall know how Mr. Vosburgh rates the two crack four-year-olds comparatively and his assignment of weights will be looked forward to with decided interest. In the meantime, if the big chestnut continues to do well, we shall see him in action here long before he goes east to battle for the champion- -ship of 1903.
