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- i , WALTER JENNINGS DRAWS THE BLAME Many Racing Mishaps to ths A. K. Macomber Horses Attributed to Trainer. By Ed Cole. Saratoga, X. Y., August 30. The demoralization of the A. K. Macomber stable through unexiected breakdowns is regretted by every true lover of the horse. Men who always have their hammer in the air ready to fall on some individual who has been unfortunate are bringing it down on the head of Walter Jennings, trainer of the Macomber string. It is always the man with them. There could be no other cause. Many of them never stop to think, but jump at an immediate conclusion. Did they know that several trainers with good horses- in their stables have refused to bring them out over the Saratoga course, they might not lay all the cause of the Macomber troubles to Walter Jennings. Training horses is a delicate business, especially when one has a stable containing many high-class horses, such as Macomber did earlier in the season. The best trainers in the world have had many high-class horses break down and they will have more as long as thoroughbreds have to go .to such extreme measures to fit them for races. Horses with the greater speed are more likely to break down than selling platers. The slightest blemish in a horse is likely to show itself upon the speedy horse at first provocation. James Rowe, than whom there is no better train-I er, has had to patch anil patch good horses to get them to the post after the most studious care. The man; Regret he would not send to the post here On account of the peculiar condition of the going, which he knew would not suit her. Mr. Rowe has said the track would break down horses and it has, not only in one case, but in many. Dodges recent calamity came unexpectedly. Few believed him to have a weak spot, yet he certainly had or else the sandy, ciippy going at Saratoga was responsible for his sudden collapse. Horsemen generally have condemned the track as being detrimental to the racing of some horses through its evidently faulty construction. It is not like other tracks, such as Jamaica or Aqueduct, over which all horses run as consistently as horses do run. i i i 1 i : t . ; . : 1 ; :
