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TRAINER WALTER JENNINGS TO RETIRE Burner Says Principal Adviser of A K Macombcr Establishment Will Quit Turf in Near Future BY T K LYNCH LYNCHSARATOGA SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y August 6 There is a story going the rounds here that Walter Jennings principal adviser and trainer of the extensive establishment racing in the colors of the California sportsman A K Macombcr con ¬ templates retiring with the close of the present racing season Mr Jennings a gentleman of sonic means himself is a man of the highest intcrgrity and has always been a credit to the turf He feels as though he has done his bit for racing and is entitled to a rest restMr Mr Jennings has trained some great horses and a decade ago Shot Gun one of the best sprinters of his day carried his colors When Mr Macomber decided to purchase some thoroughbreds and enter into racing lie was guided to a great extent in his selections by Jennings It was a mater of love of the horse rather than business with Mr Jen ¬ nings which influenced him to give up his ideal lifn on Ujs beautiful three hundredacre ranch at Yolo Woodland County California and conic back to the rather strenuous life of training a big band of racers racersRacing Racing has not lost its charm for Mr Jennings but he probably feels that he can get quite as much enjoyment out of the snort in breeding a few good horses every year as in training a big estab ¬ lishment It is not unlikely that some of the mares which Mr Macomber may retire will be scut to Mr Jennings establishment establishmentThe The retirement of Mr Jennings does not mean that Mr Macomber wilt give up racing in tills country and confine his interest on the turf to racing in France where lie has at present rather an extensive string In charge of T Murphy who trained the divi ¬ sion of the stable that raced on the Kentucky tracks last year Just who Mr Jennings successor will be if he retires could not be learned but it Is presumed that Mr Macomber will make a selec ¬ tion from one of the many rising young trainers who have shown ability and keenness enough to manage an extensive establismcnt such as Mr Macombcr maintains maintainsCUBAN CUBAN TUBFMEN AFTER HOBSES HOBSESSeveral Several turfmen who contemplate racing in Cuba next winter are here looking for material to strengthen their establishments Senors Alvarez and Pcrtola annual visitors to Saratoga are 4irnong those who are in the market for promising thor ¬ oughbreds They are recent arrivals from Havana and have commissioned their trainer M Daly to purchase what lie considers horses of caliber cnougli to win some of the big stakes to be run at Oriental Park next winter winterC C E Price who raced a small stable in Cuba last winter is an arrival in search of material He came up from Havre de Grace where lie left the racers American Boy which he secured from Thomas McDowell in Kentucky and Trapping Price will probably stay for the remainder of the meeting lie reports there are at present about 250 horses at the Maryland tracks awaiting the opening of the fall meeting at Havre de Grace GraceE E J Braddock a prominent business man of Portland Oregon and a racing enthusiast is here hereLafe Lafe Block gave a birthday dinner to William Oliver and a party of friends at one of the road houses adjacent to Saratora Mortbner Lynch ami his son Edward recently returned from overseas were among the guests Oliver was chaffed a bit over the rumor of his engagement to a California heiress but he promised that in Me event of his being married he would still stick to Lakcwood N J JH H Ncusteter who shipped the horses he raced at the recent Empire City meeting back to Ken ¬ tucky was an arrival yesterday Neusteter a few fdays back purchased the contract that Thos Shan ¬ non held on the apprentice Staplcton He has also arranged to take jockey Lyke back to Kentucky at the conclusion of the Saratoga meeting It was Neusteter who developed Lyke and he is still of the opinion that the latter is still as skillful a rider as ever and needs only an opportunity of show ¬ ing his oldtime ability in the saddle saddleLige Lige Brewster looking as hale and hearty as he did a geiieration ago is here for the meet ing Brewsttr has been commissioned to imrchase feevernl horses for a campaign at one of the winter tracks tracksAWAITING AWAITING WOBD FBOM MONTBEAL TRACKS Quite a few of the smaller owners gathered here are awaiting final word from the powers that be in Canada before shinning their horses to Montreal MontrealFoxhall Foxhall Keene came un from his Maryland farm and was an arrival this morning He will probably be here for the remainder of the meeting meetingHerman Herman Brandt former trainer for Barney Schreiber and Jefferson Livingston was an arrival from St Louis LouisThe The Kilmer racer Sun Briar will be a starter in the Chamnlain Handicap one of the attractions on Saturdays program In his previous start the big horse tired in the last hundred yards and with that race under his belt he should stick it out better the next time he goes to the post postC C P Winfrey has purchased the useful plater Ivry from Miss E C Stevens StevensJockey Jockey Eddie Taplin who sported the S C Hil ilreth colors during the earlj part of the racing season and who is still employed by the stable had a bit of bad luck last night when his auto caughtfire and burned up Preston Burch in speaking of a sale of the Sanford yearlings which will be offered in the sales paddock here said that he wished to correct an impression that a reserve price would be placed on some of the youngsters He was emphatic in his statement that all would be sold to the highest bidder bidderP P J Miles came up from Kentucky and J G Wagnon from Maryland Wagnon left his horses at the driving park course to freshen up for the fall meetings in Maryland His mission here is ti purchase about a half dozen yearlings yearlingsHarry Harry Morrissey received a telegram from Ken ¬ tucky this afternoon that tho barn on his farm used for the storage of feed had been struck by lightning and burned to the ground
