Two of Saratogas Great Stakes: Nominations to the Spinaway of 1909 and the Hopeful Stakes of 1910, Daily Racing Form, 1907-12-01

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TWO OF SARATOGAS GREAT STAKES. Nominations to the Spinaway of 1909 and The Hopeful Stakes of 1910. Entries to the Spinaway Stakes of 1909 and the Hopeful Stakes of 1910, which closed November 11, are published in the Racing Calendar. The entries to the Spinaway are of fillies foaled lu 1907, and number 212. The entries to the Hopeful are of inares covered in 1907, and are 5G2 in number. Both events rank high in the Saratoga Stake list, the Hopeful being the more Important and valuable of the two. Its entry list presents some decidedly interesting features. Iu the list of new sires appear the names of Rock Sand, Adam, Singleton, Saturday, Ivan the Terrible, Delhi, Wild Mint, The Scrihe, Bryn Mawr, Inflexible, Ort Wells, Stalwart and Mexican as sires of the future. In this connection it is noteworthy that Mr. Belmont has nominated twenty-eight mares mated with Rock Sand, among which appear the names of such patricians as Beldame, Fides, G10IT Teas Over, Tiptoe, Hautesse, Lady Madge, Lady Margaret and Souriantc. Besides Mr. Belmonts mares Rock Sand lias been mated with such other marcs in the Hopeful as E. R. Bradleys Philistla and Oneck Stables Oneck Queen. So Mr. Belmonts 25,000 sire will be well represented by his first crop of youngsters in tills country. Besides Rock Sand, Mr. Belmont is represented by his old standby, Hastings, with eighteen mares; Octagon, with thirteen; Singleton, two; Watercress, two; Persimmon, one; The Bard, one; Ben Strome, one; Star Ruby, two and Ethel-bert, one. Mr. James R. Keene has forty-nine nominations made up of fourteen inares mated with Disguise; twelve with Voter and Ben Brush with nine; Delhi, six; Adam, one; Goldfinch, one; Ben Strome, one; Star Ruby, one; Wild Mint, one and Kingston two. The Star Ruby nomination is Optiinc, the dam of Sysonby. Peter Pans dam, Cinderella, was sent to Disguise and Colins dam, Pastorella, to Voter, as also was Cerito, the dam of Ballot. Citronella was mated with Adam, Rhodesia with Goldfinch, Ben My Chree with Ben Strome and Pink Domino with Wild Mint. As is generally the case in produce stakes, Mr. J. IS. Haggin is the leader iu .number of nominations, having made 139 with the pick of his great stud matrons represented and Star Ruby, Royal Flush III., Goldfinch, Slave, Bute, Watercress, Africander, Juvenal, Reliable, Ben Strome, Greenan, Dieudonne, Kinley Mack, Waterboy, Toddington, Sombrero, McChesney, First Water, Gerolstcin, Mimic and Order being the stallions named. II. P. Whitney lias nominated forty-three marcs, nineteen mated with Hamburg; four with Hamburg and Sandringham; five with Sandringham; seven witli Riley; one with Riley and Hamburg; two with Sandringham and Irish Lad; two with Irish Lad and three with Adam. In the list of Hamburgs consorts are Blue Girl, Hurly Burly, Endurance by Right, Daisy F., Jinks, Margerique, Tanya, Mincola, Equality and Samlria, while Yorkville Belle, Kil-decr, Black Venus and Ficsolc were sent to Sandringham also. The use of Riley is to secure broodmares, the union of Hurly Burly and Hamburg, as represented by such a flyer as Burgomaster, suggesting the desirability of acquiring more mares by Riley. This old son of Longfellow was given a good chance witii sucli crack mares as Haudspuu, Hearts Desire, Leisure, Queen of Hearts, Urania, Song Queen, Sister Mary and Eugenia Burch, the latter marc being also mated with Hamburg. The inares sent to the costly French horse, Adam, were Sallic of Navarre, Irish Reel and Belie of Troy. Clarence II. Mackay has entered nineteen mares covered by Meddler and one by Hastings. John E. Madden has iu sixty-one Hamburg Place mares that were sent to Yankee, Plaudit, The Scribe, Ogden, Migraine, Galore and Planudes. II. P. Head-ley has named twelve mares mated wtili Ornament, .May Hempstead being one of them. John Sanford lias eleven, with Clifford, Chuctanunda, Caughna-waga and Rock ton as his stallions. Barney Schrci-ber has named ten mares, seven mated witli Sain, two witli Bannockburn and one with Sir Hercules. R. T. Wilson, Jr. has eight, all covered by Mexican. Mrs. T. J. Carson has nominated fifty of the Dixiana matrons, the stallions being Ben Strome, Griffon, Alloway, Royal Flusli III., Star Ruby, Disguise, Hastings and Faverdale. Altogether there is immense variety In lines of breeding embraced in the nominations to the Hopeful of 1910 and, as a mere matter of sentiment, no one could object to the hope that it might fall to a son or daughter of Yankee and Imp, the famous and admired "Coal Black Lady," having been mated with that son of Hanover and Correction.


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