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"WHEN IN DOUBT PLAY MILLER." "When in doubt play Miller," says the Saratoga correspondent of the New York Sun. "This system of making racetrack visits remunerative has been advocated practically all summer, but never more than now has there been such a general inclination to follow the standard of the popular lightweight. The regulars here with but few exceptions are losers, for the form has been bewildering. Owners, trainers and layers have found their calculations, no matter how carefully made, untrustworthy, but the visiting element, the sort that In the old days stuck a pin in their program to find the winners, or backed a horse because the colors his rider was to wear matched the parasol of the women that sat across the table, arc rolling in wealth, winning day after day enough to pay expenses and a, good margin over. Miller is really a marvel in the saddle. At the post he Is in a class by himself. No matter how big the field is and how bad an actor he may be on you can count on his being away in the front rank when the barrier is sprung. At the finish there are several of his fellows that can more than hold their own with him, but it is in the early stages of a race that he makes them look ordinary."
