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ENTER SARATOGA SPECIAL. t c The subscribers in the Saratoga Special up -to Wednesday last are: J. G. Lyman, L. Waterbury, P. H. McCarren, B. R. Bradley, J. A. Drake, M. Murphy, J. Sanford, J. E. 2 Widener, A. Belmont, W. B. Leeds, Sydney Paget, J. Fleischmann, R. T. "Wilson, Jr., D. Gideon, E. B. Smathers, J. R. Keene, J. W. Schorr, S, S. Brown, W. C. "Whitney and P. J. Dwyer. Mr. Belmont and Mr. "Whitney have each 1 taken two subscriptions. The men yet to hear from, whom the offi- -cers of the Saratoga Association feel reas- 1 onably sure will subscribe, are Green B. Mor- ris, "W. B. Jennings, John E. Madden, M. H. : Tichenor, Col. J. E. Pepper of Lexington, and : H. M. Ziegler of Cincinnati. Captain Brown : also may take two subscriptions. His stable of two-year-olds at Mobile is the most numerous one on the American turf, with one or two exceptions. Peter Wimmer, who has it in charge, says also that it is one of the best. Several of the youngsters are of Captain Browns own breeding, but the majority cost big prices "at the "yearling sales of the great Tennessee, Kentucky and California stock farms. Five of the subscribers of last year who will not come in this year are H. K. Knapp, secretary of the Saratoga Association; Andrew Miller, its treasurer; F. R. Hitchcock, vice-president; J. G. Follansbee and J. J. McCafferty. None of them has any two-year-olds that have shown enough speed and class in fall and early spring trials to take a ,000 chance in such a race as the Saratoga Special, in which it is a certainty all of the crack two-year-olds of the country will compete. Mr. Miller, however, will have an interest in the horses that bear Mr. Leeds name. They are partners in the ownership of nearly every horse in Mr. Millers stable, two-year-olds and older campaigners. "When all returns are in, Mr. Earlocher is confident that the Special will show a total of twenty-eight or thirty subscriptions, representing twenty-six or twenty-eight different stables. Twenty-six subscriptions would exceed the record of last year and the year before, and insure a value of between 8,-000 and 0,000 to the Special. It is pretty nearly a certainty, taking into account all possible casualties, that a field of twelve or fifteen horses will start in the Special. Because of its sportmanslike character it is rapidly becoming the most popular two-year-old race on the American turf.
