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OWNERS KEEN FOR MILE SPEED TEST Several of Them Aro Confident Their Charges Can Xower Record Made by Sun Briar By Ed Cole Saratoga N Y August 10 There is renewed talk of a special race being run here lutween the best milors to settle the muchdisputed question regarding the fastest horse in this country over a perfect course Sun Briars hanging up a mile rec ¬ ord has caused other owners to seek the honor of lowering the record of 130 If which to quote Shakespeare is n hanging plum devoutly to be wished wishedCommander Commander J K L Boss and his trainer II Guy Bedwell liave an idea Cudgel can at least do as well as Sun Briar and Andrew Miller and his trainer Jack Goldsborough are practically convinced Boamer could hang up a better record under the same at ¬ mospheric conditions conditionsWalter Walter Jennings thinks lie has a bettor horse than Sun Brinr in his stable In A K Macombers War Cloud and Frank Weir who trains Jack Hare Jr enjoys the same opinion regarding Col W E Applegates colt coltAll All those men are discussing the subject of a special race and there is a chance that the man ¬ agement of the association will get into the confer ¬ ence in an effort to bring such a nice almiit The proposition is to make it a weiglitforage event which would be a true test for championship honors honorsIn In the course of arguments 011 the subject some of those concerned have intimated it should be a handicap To this the majority of those owning the probable contestants object and rightly too for then the race would be practically in the hands of Handicapper Vosbiirgh instead of resorting to the old and wellestablished rule of scale weights weightsIt It is a sure thing Mr Vosburgh would rather bnck away from i handicapping proposition than encour ¬ age it as he is in favor of more weightforage races in fact he has been an advocate of weight forage races for years That such an event would be a great attraction for the tailend of the present Saratoga meeting is unquestioned Never was there a better opportunity to decide a championship be ¬ tween four or five topnotch horses than the present presentPOLYMELIAN POLYMELIAN TO BE CONSIDERED CONSIDEREDNaturally Naturally such a race would be open to all and possibly the horse that beat Sun Briar at three qu rters Polymelian would be among the entries It would be a race of many complications and with five or six horses running at weightforage then is no predicting what would happen happenThe The question of pace would enter decidedly into the argument as would intelligent jockeyship In any event it would prove a great contest thtf like of which few in the present generation of race ¬ goers have had an opportunity to witness witnessThe The special race between Hourless and Omar Khayyam at Laurel last autumn proved a nionster attraction and one that did the turf more good gen crall than anything that lias happened in a de ¬ cade It proved the popularity of a race between champions and KO interested was the entire commu ¬ nity in the result that editorials wore written on the subject in hundreds of newspapers both here and abroad abroadSaratoga Saratoga has a recordsmashing track and never was there a hotter time to install a set of time records that would possibly hang up for generations The horses are here the track is here and all that is needed would be appropriate weather for one of the greatest races in th history of the American turf turfSpeaking Speaking of fast horses there was a rather hu ¬ morous argument between two nogro dockers a few mornings ago One of them was working hard on a prospective live one trying to get him to wager on a dayThis certain horse that was to run that day This horse has worked fiveeighths in fiftynine seconds said ho and there is no horse going to beat him today todayHis His associate who had previously boon speaking of another colt in the same nice to the same live one chimed into the argument refuted the state ¬ ment of tho first speaker stating positively that the colt alluded to was not capable of working five eighths that fast fastMan Man said he you certainly have a tlino slanghtering watch That colt you are talking about could not work that fast There is but on way for him to travel fiveeighths in fiftynine and that would be to take him up in an airship and then drop him
