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REJUVENATION OF MIDWAY KentuckyOwned Colt Shows Re ¬ turn to His TwoYearOld Form Johren to Race at Latonia in the theFall Fall Sanfords Fine FineYearlings Yearlings By J It Joffery JofferySaratoga Saratoga X Y August 30 The exodus of turf followers from here in anticipation of Saturdays closing of the local racing season has already as ¬ sumed considerable proportions For two or throe lays the thinning ut movement has been percept ilile iind with each passing day it continues to grow The attendance at tlie tnick however re ¬ mains of good volume and will continue so to the end with the hulk of the visitors in at the finish finishTrainer Trainer I S Ward who brought a useful string of horses here from Kentucky to race in the interest of various owners lias no reason for complaining of the way in which Dame Fortune has treated him here With the exception of O A Itiancliis thnoyearold Lucky 1 nil of the horses in his firing have scored He won races with Midway Itoniface Franklin and Viva America It is doubt ¬ ful if the first named horse which races in the colors of J AV Parrish a Kentucky hanker ever licfori showed such high class form as he has been exhibiting here In his last start he won the Mrrohauts and Citizens Handicap from opposition that included the mighty Cudgel after having jinviously finished second to the sensational Sun Itriar on the occasion when the Kilmer crack es ¬ tablished his new mile record of l3iVf l3iVfMidway Midway was regarded as a racing prospect of the yearold form while fairly good was really not up to expectations and his races in the earlier Dart of this year were likewise below what was expected but he has now finally rounded into the form so long expected of him Trainer Ward will take him to the metrojiolitan tracks for a September cam ¬ paign together with his own horse Franklin He recently wild Boniface to Commander J K L Ross for 15000 and Viva America and Lucky B will go hack to Kentucky to race raceViva Viva America has been especially benefited by her sojourn here Mr Ward believes When she first came into his hands Viva America was so nervous that Mr Ward despaired of her winning a race But under painstaking treatment her nervousness has entirely disappeared and she is now in such superb condition that her trainer regrets that the oppor ¬ tunities for racing her have been so limited as they have Iwen under the condition of the program book He believes that she is a better filly just now than over before in all her career and lie thinks she lias lien so much benefited by her trip hero that she will hold her good form through the Kentucky fall stason if she makes the return trip to the west withoilt mishap mishapFINE FINE KENTUCKY SEASON FORECAST FORECASTGeneral General Manager John Hachmoister of the lil inii and Douglas Park Jockey Clubs who came lere a few days ago in connection with the closing of lli stakes to lie run during the fall meetings at the two Kentucky tracks named has gone on to Sow York for a few days and xpocts to return to Kentucky during the early part of the coming week to take up in earnest the task of preparing for fall racing at Douglas Park and Latouia In view of tin tempting nrograius that are being offered Mr Ilachmeister is looking forward to the finest season of fall racing that Kentucky has ever staged He took away with him the entries of various promi ¬ nent eastern horses for the Kentucky events in ¬ cluding that of Johren from the Whitney stable for the Latonia Autumn Inaugural Handicap of one mile and onesixteenth 3000 added and the Latonia Cup of 7iOO added at two miles and a quarter It is nossible that a division of the powerful Whit ¬ ney stable will lie campaigned at Latonia next fall under the direction of Alliert Simons with Johren as the star of the string The Kentucky purses are so tempting that other good stables from the oast are also expected to take part ill the racing especially at Latonia LatoniaII II W Iloag a far western trainer who last year entered tin employ of John Sanford and broke i he yearlings at Hurricana Farm was u visitor at the local track a day or two ago and brought glow ¬ ing reports of the yearlings which Mr Sanford owns this year There are twentynine in the string which is about the same number that Mr Sanford had last year A goodly proportion of them came from across the Atlantic and represent some of the choicest English and French strains of breeding Most of the foreigners have lieen in this country since last December and their education is already well advanced
