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ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO SARATOGA. Greatest Meeting Ever Held at the Spa Predicted for Amoricas Most Famous Racing Center. New York, July 17. Already tho annual pilgrimage to Saratoga is under way. and tho greatest season ever experienced at the Spa is assured from every standpoint. Racing Secretary McL. Ear-locker reports that he already has received rppli-cations for double tho number of stalls that are available at the Saratoga course, and that outside stable loom is at 1: bis premium. R. T Wilson, president of tho Saratoga Vssocia-tion, returned a few days ago from a visit of several days at the Spa, where he was assuring himself that all necessary improvements wore being properly made and that all would bo in order for the opening, which is scheduled for Wednesday, August 1. Mr. Wilson reported that already there were many visitors on hand at the Springs, and predicted that housing accommodations for those who go only for the racing during August would bo at a big premium and hard to get. lie was particularly pleased over the outlook for n big season, and said that ho felt certain that there would be more good horses, better racing and a larger general attendance than ever before. Walter Jennings, with about forty of the A. K. Macomber stable, was the first to reach Saratoga and get down to work with his charges, but he was followed by Frank Nolans Reverwyck Stable, and from now on there will lie daily shipments from these parts. Thomas Healey expects to ship the greater part of tho Wilson stable this week and Thomas Welch also is going to take the J. E. Widener string. Arrangements Made for "Cavanagh Special." Even -though the Saratoga opening is two weeks away, already an unrest can be seen among the regulars betokening a keen desire to be on their way to where Americas greatest race meeting is held each year. John Cavanagh already has sent out his announcement of the "Cavanagh Special," which is the big de luxe train from New York to the battle ground every year. This year it will be a night train, Cavanagh having arranged for parlor and dining cars to leave the Grand Central station at 0:30 oclock. After passing Yonkers, the Cavanagh special will run straight through to Saratoga without a. stop. More so than ever before tho auction sales of yearlings and horses in training will bo big side attractions at the Springs during tho coming month of August. This year there will be two sales companies attending to this end cf the business. The Powers and Hunter Company will conduct their sales in the great shady paddock of the Saratoga raee course on various days just prior to the racing hour, and will have some notable lots to dispose of. The Fasig-Tipton Cimpany, long the leading auctioneer of harness horses, once more is in the field with sales of thoroughbreds. This concern has constructed its own sales ring, stables and paddocks, and the buildings which they now have completed are reported to be the finest and most extensive of any of the kind in the world. They will conduct bcth noonday and night sales, and already have in their stalls more than 100 imported yearlings, which have been recently brought here by some of the leading breeders who maintain establishments in France. In addition to these imported ones, several lots are now being shinped from the Kentucky farms. The first big gun in the sales division will be fired on Thursday, August 2, the day after the opening of tho race meeting, when all the horses in training belonging to Grant Hugh Rrownes Rrownhigh Park Rreeding Corporation will be put up at auction. This sale is certain to attract buyers, for it includes racing material with which Mr. Rrcwne has been winning in Kentucky, Maryland. Canada and more recently on the New York tracks.
