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NO SARATOGA CUP THIS YEAR The Saratoga Cup will have no running tills year An a closed stake race it was one of the events de ¬ clared off by the Saratoga Association but preserved under Its name for record continuity in the form of un overnight purse race In that guise it was to haye been the fourth raee of Thursday but when the entry box was opened it was found that but one horse had been entered a Yind illustration of the selfishness and lack of generous public spirit of the great mass of owners So another race had to be BUgstiluted and 1108 will be a blank year In the his ¬ tory of one of the longest established and most famous of our longdistance fixtures fixturesThe The Saratoga Cup was first mil In 1SC5 and was taken by one of the greatest of Lexingtons many fast and staying sons the grand race horse Ken ¬ tucky He also won Its renewal in ISCli Captain Moore was second in 1865 and Beacon in 1SCO The predominence of Lexington as a sire in those days is strikingly attested by the fact that in the first fourteen years of the running of the cup a son or grandson of Lexington was first or second Follow ¬ ing Kentuckys two victories Lexingtons grandson Muggins won in 1SC7 and his grandson Lancaster in 1868 Then in 1869 his son Bayonet won In 1S70 Helmbold by Australian won and Hamburg by Lexington was second In 1871 Longfellow by Leamington was first and Kingfisher by Lexington second Then Harry Bassett by Lexington won in 1S72 and ran second to Joe Daniels by Australian In 1873 In 1874 Preakness by Lexington was first und Springbok by Australian was second Spring Itok was himself a grandson of Lexington In the ma ¬ ternal Hue his dam being Hester by Lexington In 1875 Preakness and Springbok came together again and made their famous dead heat In 35GJ which stood as the record for two miles and a quarter until Buckwa ran the distance in 351 at Oakland Decemlier 81 1898 Next in 187G Tom Ochiltree by Lexington was the winner and In two successive years his grandson Parole son of his daughter Maiden took the cups of 1877 and 1878 A remarkable horse lu all respects was Lexington and the influence of his blood is potent to tills day not only in this country but abroad as well it flowing in the veins of last years Epsom Derby win ¬ ner Orby not to mention other distinguished in ¬ stances His skeleton may be seen in the National Museum at Washington mounted and standing alongside of that of Henry Clay typifying the bony structure of the American thoroughbred niul the American trotter trotterThe The cup was contested annually until 18SC when it was discontinued until 1901 Then it was re ¬ vived as a dash of a mile and five furlongs and was won by Frank Farrells good horse Blues The next year the distance was made a mile and three quarters and the cup was carried off by that rare stayer and stretch runner Advance Guard Since then it has fallen In orderly succession to such celebrities as Africander Beldame Cauglmawaga Go Between and Running Water
