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HILDRETH GETS CREDIT FOR SKILLFUL JOB. Woodford Clay -Says Ocean Bound Would Not Have Won Spinaway hut for Hildrcths Help. Saratoga, N. Y.. August 4. Ocean liouud. winner of the Spinaway Stakes, is exceedingly sore in her right fore foot, the seat of the trouble that a week ago threatened to retire her. The cuts she received yesterday in the scrimmage getting away from the post did not seriously affect her. French lirooks. wlio trains her, is confident she will be ready to start in tin; Special on Saturday. Woodford Clay gives full credit to Sam Hildreth for having made It possible for the lilly to be fitted for the Spinaway. Had she been treated according to the veterinarians directions she would not have been prepared for tlie event. Her ailment was pronounced navicular. Hildreth, after looking her over, said he did not believe the trouble was so serious, and that, in his opinion, she was sore because her feet were not level. further consideration of her case resulted in his getting permission to operate on her foot and shoe her. He shod her three times and plated her with three-quarter plates. When she romped home an easy winner and placed ,500 to her owners credit the navicular theory was discredited. Hildreth does not believe in it. John E. Madden, who learned most of what he knows about horses feet from the late Kobert Konner, is another doubter. Kobert Bonner used to emphatically declare that veterinarians who could not determine the cause of a horses lameness designated it as navicular, because nobody could gainsay their diagnosis without tutting into the animals foot. II. M. Ziegler left for New York this afternoon. Earlier in the day Fred Johnson made him an offer for Barloythorpo. which was declined with thanks. The colt is in the Hopeful and Futurity and Mr. Ziegler says he feels like seeing Ills colors in those events. He also says he wishes to have a good colt for Charley Hughes to handle. Dave "Woodford must have worked Sir John Johnson somewhere or he would not have stayed for seven furlongs as he did today. On the main track he Ins regularly refused to work, lie acted kindly in his preliminary, was difficult to restrain at the gate and got away with a Hying start. Sweep was galoped eilf-uiile in 52 today. lie 11 il-iblv will got a similar work before Saturday. He is lit now and will pe favorite for the Special, no matter what youngsters may start. Pat Dunne is here and hiking remarkably well. He says he has reason. "I started seventeen times lu Canada ami won once, so I ought to be lit," is the way he expresses it. Charlev Ellison is playing them as enthusiastically and shrewdly as ever. John J. Coughlln is not liere, but Patsy King, expansive and ornate, represents Chicago equally well.
