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WONDERFUL MEETING IN MANY WAYS Saratoga Racing Highly Successful with Little Ground for Criticism. ijy j. i. Jeffery. Saratoga, X. Y., August 30. With the running of todays .all-star card, the most notable -meeting that the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of norses lias ever Staged came to a close and the scene of New York raring will shift to the spacious home of the Westchester Racing Association at. Belmont Park on Long Island, where a high-class meeting of thirteen days duration is scheduled to begin on Saturday. The exodus of turfmen and patrons of racing from this most popular of American watering places has been in progress for several days, but the bulk of those who came here primarily for the racing are still on hand and not until Friday will the- movement, reach its height. There will be few or the racing visitors left In the village Saturday and Saratoga will lapse into the quiet and peaceful ways that prevail here for eleven months of the year, in sharp contrast to the feverish excitement or the one. month when racing and its concomitants transform the community and give it a decidedly metropolitan air. The directors of the destinies of the Saratoga Association are amply satisfied with the results of the meeting which closed today. It has been a really wonderful meeting in many ways and has gone far to strengthen the conviction that racing in this state is rapidly coming into its own once more. It is only a question of a short time before all the ground lost by the anti-bookmaking crusades of a few years ago will have been regained. Keen Rivalry Among Wealthy Turfmen. It is highly heartening to note the zest with which men of great wealth and influence are vying witli one another in a desire to obtain adequate representation on the turf. At no previous time in the history or the siwrt has there been keener rivalry in this direction and nowhere has this rivalry manifested itself more conspicuously than it lias right here during the present month. . The public, which in the end pays the bills, has really little ground for criticism of the meeting and its results. The one legitimate cause for complaint lies in the unsatisfactory track conditions that kept some of the best horses from participating in the racing. The sport, of course, would have been even - more-brilliant than It has been had the absentees referred to taken part in the racing, but in the main it has been satisfying. There is good reason for believing-that the track will be put into first-class condition for next years meeting, if all goes well in the meantime.
