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SANFORDS FORMER TRAINER A VISITOR Holly Hughes Now a Lieutenant in Army Stops Off to See Days Racing RacingBy By Ed Cole ColeSaratoga Saratoga N Y August 7 One of the visitors who was surrounded by a host of friends today was Lieutenant Holly Hughes the man who trained George Smith when he won the Kentucky Derby Lieutenant Hughes was one of the first to thinl about doing his bit for his country and after joining the army was placed in the quartermasters department of the remount service So well did he fill the bill that he was soon made a lieutenant He stopped off here for a day just to shake hands with John Sanford along with others and will leave tomorrow for Chicago on military business businessSamuel Samuel Booth one of New Yorks racing entlm siasts drove here tins morning after motoring from the metropolis He left New York last night at six oclock stopped off at Poughkeepsie for luncheon paid a judge 5 ten minutes later for violating the speed law and landed in Albany at one oclock in the morning Ho expects to remain out the season here hereThe The press and public were quite confused when Tom Welch sent the threeyearold filly Llnfir miere to the post in the first race Most folks thought it was the threeyearold colt LInfinnier and backed according to their belief Fortunately the filly finished third consequently those who erred in their deduction profited as Llufirmiere paid a goodly sum for a show investment investmentEastern Eastern horsemen as a whole are not yet con ¬ vinced that Billy Kelly is the champion of the year They argue that while he is a good horse that happenings during the running of the race ruined the chances of some of the contenders In the first place it was well known that Dunboyne is still shin sore from bucking and again that Elfin Queen was not at her best bestJockey Jockey Failbrother can show evidences of the trouble he encountered while riding Tcrentia being hit with a stone directly after tha start in the United States Hotel Stakes in which she finshed third thirdWhen When that stone struck me said Fairbrothcr it was excccdingly painful and I hardly knew what I was doing When I was straightened out I was some distance from the lenders and had to make up a lot of ground Just about a sixteenth from home some horse stopped right in front of me and I had to pull out and around which caused me to lose more ground while those in front hail clear sailing
