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M0SC0WA GOOD MUD RUNNER. J. O. Keenes Gelding Better Horse Than Generally Supposed Chiclet Needs Fast Track. Saratoga, N. Y., August 21. It is evident that Moscowa, J. O Keenes five-year-old bay gelding by Out of Reach Rosinnnte, which Avon the Corinth Handicap here last Wednesday, is a better horse than he is generally credited witli being. The ease with which lie scored over the well-meant Dick Williams was surprising. Moscowa appears to be an especially good mud runner. His owner professed hot to be especially sweet on his chances Wednesday, inquiring friehds .being informed that the distance might not be sufficiently long to suit the horse. Tlie running of the race showed that Moscowa could have won had the distance been as short as a mile, or even less. That J. E. Wideners horse Chiclet, by Spearmint Nature, is not a good mud runner was once more demonstrated when such an inferior racer as W. J. Youngs Valor was able to take his measure Wednesday. Chiclets mud racing last year was unsatisfactory, but he ran a winning race in sloppy going at Belmont Park last spring, and it was on the strength of this performance that he was well backed last Wednesday. A cheap selling plater that, has been showing consistently improved form since his acquisition by S. Miller Henderson is tlie three-year-old brown colt Beaverkill, by Ogden Dolly Higgins. This colt lias been placed in his last four starts and shows to especially good advantage in muddy going. Syosset Appears to Have Recovered. Mrs. Payne Whitneys good jumper Syosset appears to have entirely gotten over the infirmities that impaired his usefulness through the steeplechase field last year, when he habitually showed such soreness that it was not until his races were well over that he could stride freely. It is lie-lieved that rheumatism was responsible for tills condition. This year there is no more agile or sounder jumper in training than Syosset. James Bugler is not buying any yearlings this year, for the reason that he has twelve of his own breeding that trainer Jack McCormack will campaign next year. The Butler string in training here consists of about twenty horses, and the. plans call for a fall campaign in Maryland after participation in the joint "meeting of various racing associations at Aqueduct next month. Trainer McCormack will have a formidable stable witli which to start the year of 1918, as, in addition to those he lias in training here, he will take up a consld-. erable number of horses that were sent to East View Farm, in the hills of Westchester County, to recover from the effects of the epidemic of sickness that swept through this stable last spring, nnd which seriously affected Mr. Butlers racing prospects for this year. The veteran Jacob Pincus, who has not missed a i Saratoga meeting since the track was first ope"hed, except when lie was absent in England, is among the recent arrivals. I
