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I AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR SARATOGA. Big Men of the Eastern Turf Raising Large Fund to Guarantee Valuable Stakes at Spa. Saratoga. N. Y.. August 1G. Inspired by James R. Keenus enthusiasm over the success of the current race meeting here and his comments on the prospects for Saratoga racing, subscriptions to a fund of at least 00,000 to guarantee values for the enrichment of two and three-year-old stakes in succeeding years are being pledged. The movement at once aroused the warm approval of breeders and horsemen when the lan was proposed and is commended by men prominent in turf affairs aside from the officers of the Saratoga Association. Mr. Keene started the movement by iromptly subscribing ,000. His lead was followed quickly with subscriptions of like sums by Richard T. Wilson. Jr.. the Newcastle Stable. W. S. Fanshawe and Philip J. Dwyer, while substantial support Is promised by many other horsemen and breeders. This guarantee fund is subscribed with the condition that any earnings of the Saratoga Association exceeding eight per cent, will go to the racing fund. The object of the guarantee fund is to provide first-class two-year-old racing, with valuable added money of at least 0,000 for each stake, and in addition to this there will be a series of three-year-old stakes, with fully as large an amount of added money to each stake. Within a few days the association will make public the conditions and distribute entry blanks for the new stakes to be run in 1910 and 1911. At the same time the association will announce its intention to race twenty-four days during the month of August in succeeding years. No opposition to these dates is expected, but if there should be racing at any other track in that month the Saratoga Association will go right on with its plans. Its object is to restore racin" at Saratoga to its former prestige and to make Saratoga as jiopular a racing center in this country as is Trouville in France. Baden Baden in Germany and Ascot and Goodwood in England. The Saratoga Association will make an effort to place the sport here on the highest plane of excellence yet attempted in this country. It has been proven beyond cavil that it is to the racing alone that the success of the present season at Saratoga may be attributed. Without any counter attractions, excepting, of course, the health-giving springs that have made Saratoga famous, the racing has attracted to this popular resort assemblages of the highest class of citizens within a radius of a hundred miles, besides many from afar. There is an almost absence of the undesirable element in Saratoga this year. With the prospects of a state park, beautified and embellished by-a generous appropriation made by the legislature and with the prospect of polo, golf and kindred sports in profusion, the future of Saratoga was never brighter than at present.
