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SANFORD HORSES KEPT AT WORK. When Wm. nayward, Jr., trainer for the Sanfords, was preparing to ship the entire stable to Tlurrl-cana Farm at Amsterdam, N. Y., for the winter, he received word from General Stephen Sauford to keep them at New York until the close of Aqueduct. None of the horses has engagements at either Jamaica or Aqueduct and will only be seen in overnight races. The stable has not done all that was hoped from it at the opening of the Saratoga meeting, but has more than paid its way. Hayward thinks a few weeks of racing at New York before going to Saratoga would have a good deal, to do with the shyness and bad temper which Is characteristic of nearly every horse" In the stable. The horses, he. says, need hardening earlier than the time-honored plan of the Sanfords permits. The probability is that they will depart from it next year and race at New York in July. The filly Vails developed a fretful JlisnosUlon In -the course of the Saratoga meeting and was sent back to the farm ut the close of the meeting. The winner of the Delaware was the best of her sex at the meeting and is regretted thahe did not continue in training. Kcnnyetto wovthe Alabama Stakes and continued in good form, running creditable races on the metropolitan tracks and the same can be said of the Clifford filly. Danoscara. Two good twO-year-olds in Sir John Johnson and Fort Johnson were developed from the home-bred Hurricana youngsters and their races have been very gratifying to their owners and trainer. Sir John Johnsons race at Belmont Park lat Saturday, the way the race was run, stomps him a colt worthy of his ancestry nnd a credit to It. The Sanfords expect great things of Mohawk II. next year. After the close of .the Saratoga meeting a year ago, Mohawk II. contracted a skin disease similar to that which carried off the great Sysonby, The Rockstone colt did not Seem to have his old speed after his recovery and. nothing was, attempted with him this year. He will probably be nominated with Vails for the Saratoga Handicap, the Saratoga Cup and Great Republic of 1008 and will be the hope of the stable iu some of these stakes. I ; , , t i ; ; , - - r a 1 It 1 p 6
