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MAY NOT RETIRE SUN BRIAR Recent Record Breaking Mile Race Shows Colt to Be at Best Trainer McDaniel Confident that thatHe He Will Accomplish Greater GreaterThings Things in Future By J R Jeffcry JeffcrySaratoga Saratoga X Y August 8 In order to appre ¬ ciate to the lull tlie merit of Sun Briars wonder ¬ ful performance in winning the Delaware Handicap on Tuesday and incidentally establishing a new American record of l3Glf for the mile it is neces fsiry that one should have been a spectator of the race raceThe The cold tyye of the form chart fails to convey an adequate idea of the brilliant dash with which the Kilmer colt wrested the lead from the pacemakers in the stretch after having followed the phenome ¬ nally fast early pacemaker closely under restraint and went on to victory victoryAlmost Almost before the onlookers could realize it lie had established a lead of several lengths and jockey Knapp had begun to take things easy when Midway cams along with his belated challenge She result of the race has raised the question as to whether Sun Itrlar may not be considered the champion threeyearold of the year as he was us a twoyearold last year yearOa Oa this account his succeeding appearances will l vatohed with nnich more than the usual amount of interest His remaining engagements here in ¬ clude the Travers Stakes of 10000 one mile and onequarter to be run on Saturday August 17 which is a race for threeyearolds exclusively the Sarauac Handicap of 3000 one mile to be run on AVcdiieday August 21 also a nice for threcyear ids and the Saratoga Cup of 3000 added one mile and threequarters for threeyearolds and over to be run on Saturday August 31 the closing clay of the meeting meetingIt It is clearly evident that Jack Hare Jr and War Cloud Johren and the other threeyearolds that have Iteen so much in the limelight up lo this time will have anything but an easy time in dis ¬ posing of the championship claims of this crack colt It is also likely that his owner Willis Hharpe Kilmer will abandon his announced plan for the retirement of the colt at the conclusion of this years racing in view of the full recovery of the colts best form formCOULD COULD HAVE HUN FASTER FASTERHenry Henry McDaniel to whose patient and skillful ef ¬ forts Sun Briars return to championship form is due was naturally a well satisfied man after his charges sensationally achieved victory on Tues ¬ day He predicted that Sun Briar would go on to even greater achievements and said that there was no doubt in his mind that he could have run even faster on Tuesday had it been neces ¬ sary Jockey Knapp had instructions to keep his mount under restraint close to the pacemaker in the early part of the Rice and carried them out perfectly McDaniel thinks that Sun Briars fa ¬ mous ringbones have ceased to trouble him and that it will be found entirely practicable to train him as a fouryearold next year Concerning the failure of Sun Briar to show his true form earlier in the season trainer McDaniel declared that the colt did not do well in his prepara ¬ tion for the Kentucky Derby and that this was en ¬ tirely to blame for his failure to come to hand earlier He said that in the early part of the year the colt was troubled by a bad mouth and was nervous and fretful quite in contrast to his present condition He has now settled down com ¬ pletely and is as contented at all times as an old cow Everybody who has seen the colt of late has commented upon the splendid appearance he makes There are few better looking horses in training trainingWar War conditions are having ail adverse effect upon the patronage of racing here this year At least the falling off in patronage as compared with last years wonderful showing is ascribed to con ¬ ditions growing out of the war The attendance to date has been below expectations and little hope is entertained that there will be sufficient improve ¬ ment during the remainder of the meeting to bring the figures up to the showing made one year ago All local authorities agree that by no means as many visitors have come to Saratoga this year as usual cither to enjoy the racing or the other de ¬ lights of a summer sojourn at this queen of American resorts The big hotels have their usual quota of guests but are by no means crowded and there is an abundance of accommodations for visitors all over the town townflic flic falling off in patronage here is in sharp contrast to the showing niado at all other American race tracks this year Everywhere else with the jiossible exception of Havre de Grace where trans ¬ portation facilities handicapped the sport the year has been marked by recordbreaking patronage Just why Saratoga without the slightest competi ¬ tion to meet should be an exception to the general Continued oil becoud page MAY NOT EETIRE SUN BRIAR Continued from first page rule of unexampled prosperity is not easy to ex ¬ plain plainCertainly Certainly the sport lacks nothing by comparison with preceding years for the cream of American thoroughbreds are here racing over a track that represents the acme of perfection and under condi ¬ tions that leave nothing to be desired in the way of highclass sport The generally accepted theory is that Saratoga being the rendezvous for people of great wealth is suffering from the inability or disinclination of people of this class to get out of close touch with their vast interests in these trying times with their kaleidoscopic changes Some of the biggest men of the turf are among the absentees this year yearSamuel Samuel C Ilildreth is cutting less of a figure in the racing this year than usual because be lacks the material to work with The horses with which he started the year iKlonging to August Bel iiiont have either met with training mishaps or have proved to be of little account His own horses are nothing but useful selling platers at the best he says and so he is reconciled to the idea of a rather lean season seasonCharles Charles J Casey who is training the good twoyearold American Ace for Edward Cebrian California breeder and racing man expects that colt to return to the races during the Belmont Park fall meeting American Ace after racing in a manner that won for him the commendation of many good judges emerged from his last race with one of his ankles in such condition that he had to be temporarily shelved It is the theory of his trainer that the colt wrenched his ankle soon after the Ftart of the nice The blistering treatment was resorted to for the correction of the injury and there is every reason for believing that it will be success ¬ ful Besides American Ace Casey is training seven ith r horses for various owners in the public stable which he conducts
