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JAMES BUTLER HEAVIEST NOMINATOR. New Yorker Well Represented in Saratoga Stakes Recently Closed Other Eastern Gossip, New York, December 4. James Butler promises to cut a most important figure in the racing of 1114, judging from the liberal nominations ho has made for the stakes of the Saratoga Association. He is the largest individual nominator in the stakes that have closed and unless all signs fail his two-year-olds will make their mark. He tops the list of those who have subscribed for the Grab Bag Stakes with four subscriptions. He has named no less than seventeen for the United States Hotel, Grand Union Hotel and Hopeful Stakes, while his filly nominations for the Spihaway number nine. The seventeen that have been named in the stakes mentioned are: Chestnut colt by Voter Ccrito. Chestnut colt by Voter Noonday. Chestnut colt by Voter Royal Rose. Bay eolt by Ultimus Half Crown. Bay colt by Disguise Fairy Slipper. Chestnut colt by Peter Pan Lady Gay. Chestnut colt by Hippodrome .Maid of Erin. Brown colt by Ben Brush Running Stream. Bay filly by Ben Brush Eeatarina. Bay filly by Ben Brush Pink Domino. Brown filly by Ultimus Chancery. Chestnut filly by Superman Olivia. Chestnut filly by Ballot Truelove. Chestnut filly by Ballot Cap and Bells. Brown filly by Disguise Pretty. Maiden. Bay tilly by Disguise Meggs Hill. Bay filly by Ben Brush Runaway Girl. All seventeen are the produce of the famous Cas-tleton Stud of the late James R. Keene. The first in the list is a brother to Ballot, one of the best sons of Voter. The Voter Noonday colt is a brother to Suffragette, Suffragist and Besom; Royal Rose is the dam of that sterling sprinter. Iron Mask; Lady Gay is the dam of Dolly Spanker and other good ones. Maid of Erin is the dam of Celt, one of the greatest of his day, and Running Stream produced Runnymede and Ultimus. The Pink Domino tilly is a sister to Sweep, the best horse of his year, and the Runaway Girl filly Is a sister to such good ones as Gretna Green, Wedding Bells, Meggs Hill and Infatuation. With such a remarkable string of two-year-olds the Butler colors promise to be among the most prominent for the season of 1914 in juvenile events. Ho has made most liberal nominations of all his horses and they will not want for opportunity. Gilford A. Cochran, who recently took over the horses of his brother, Alex Smith Cochran, has taken a lively interest in the turf. He was. a visitor at the offices of the Jockey Club yesterday, attending to some details connected with his string of horses. His Majesty, one of the horses taken over, has been wintering well since his partial breakdown. Mr. Cochran also has the Irish jumper Postboy, which is well calculated to hold his own among the best cross-country horses that will race through the field next year, and there are many other likely ones in his string, including the coming three-year-old filly Connemara. There are several promising yearlings In the String, and they have been literally entered. Mr. Cochran Is a subscriber to the Grab Bag Handicap of the Saratoga Association, having taken two subscriptions. William L. Powers, of the firm of Powers and Hunter, takes an optimistic view of the return of racing and what it means for the thoroughbred market In New York. While the Powers-Hunter Company has not made any permanent or definite sclecton of a sales paddock for 1911. the members of the firm have every hope that the market will come back to stay. Last year the sales were conducted at the Haggins stables on Neck Road, and it is possible that they will be ussd again next year. Willie Slinw, who. has been riding with great success in Europe for many seasons, , says that In Austria the handicapping is done by three officials. Twp of them submit weights and the third strikes an average, which becomes the weight that is to be carried. This is practically the plan employed witli such success by the Maryland Jockey Club at Pinilico. He also said that a top weight is fixed, and when a liorse reaches there he need take up no more weight. Instead of piling weight on the good hbrse beyond reason the others are scaled down.
