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RACING OF HIGH QUALITY Provided by Saratoga Racing As sociatfon for Current Week Travers Spinaway and Sanford v vMemorial Memorial the Salient Features of Excellent Program SAIIATOGA SPniNGS N Y August 11 The Saratoga Association will provide for tlie current week a quality of racing worthy of the best tradi ¬ tions of this upstate track which lias been called niul not inappropriately in either instance both the Newmarket and the Ascot of America The Ken tncky Selling Stakes a five and a half furlongs sprint for twoyearold fillies not quite good enough for big stakes but too good for cheap over ¬ night races will be run tomorrow The Sanford Memorial a dash of threequarters of a mile for twoyearolds of both sexes of the best grade will be run on Wednesday The Catskill selling race at seveneighths for threeyearolds and over will be run on Thursday Saturdays features will be the Spinaway Saratogas special for twoyearold fillies and the Travers one of the best races for threeyearolds of both sexes that will be run any ¬ where The Travers will be a 12500 race this year yearThe The Travers and the Spinaway and the Sanford Memoruilj Memoruiljof of cour a jtiUeJxvthe saHeot feature ot the weeks sport The Sanford Memorial which commemorates the founder of the famous Hurricnna Stud New Y6rks oldest and biggest thoroughbred nursery and a sportsman of countrywide celebrity and popularity the late Gen Stephen Sanford be came one of the great juvenile features of Saratoga racing in 1913 Its first winner was Little Nephew a fleet son of Uncle It has since been won by Regret Hulse Campfirc Papp and Billy Kelly and it will take a youngster of the class of the best of these colts and fillies to win this seasons renewal The crack twoyearolds of the strong eastern and western racing establishments that are competing here for the Saratoga Associations valuable stakes are among its eligibles eligiblesIt It looks today as though the field may be drawn from the following group Samuel D Riddles un ¬ beaten Man o War Edward R Bradleys By Golly and Beaming Beauty Richard F Carmans Car mandale Philip A Clarks Bonnie Mary and Mari iine W R Coes Masked Dancer and Cleopatra Mrs Walter M Jeffords Golden Broom George W Lofts On Watch and Donnacona Montford Jones Brookholt James W McClellands Hasten On M C Moores The Swimmer Capt Ral Parrs Paul Jones Commander J K L Ross King Thrush Harry Payne Whitneys Wildair Upset and Sammy and Joseph E Wideners Armenus and Fair Gain It is possible that some of the filly eligibles may l e reserved for the Spinaway It is improbable that any of the colt eligibles may sidestepl sidesteplMAN MAN 0 WAR A CERTAIN STARTER STARTERMan Man o War the winner of six straight races the Juvenile Hudson Tremont Youthful and United States Hotel Stakes among them is sure to go because he has already accumulated about as many penalties as it Is possible for a winning twoyear old to amass in three months campaigning It Is good business aswell as good sportsmanship to keep him going for the best Man o War was never bet ¬ ter than he is today Carmandale is in the same boat with Man o War He got his bunch of pen ¬ alties in July when he won the Eastview and Whirl Stakes at Yonkers Golden Broom a 15600 year ¬ ling that is sure to make good under silks is out for everything as is also Donnacona Unluckily Walter M Jeffords1 smart Peter Quince colt Kin noul winner of the Pimlico Nursery and the Albany Handicap is not in the Sanford Memorial MemorialKing King Thrush a singularly prepossessing son of Thrush and Silent Queen Brookholt a fast son of Ballot and Gracilla Wildair Armenus Fair Gain By Golly Hasten On and The Swimmer all challengers for the twoyearold championship cannot hope to meet the present title holder Man o War on better terms than they may meet him in the Sanfonl Memorial They also are good Fair Gain a sos of Vulcain and Fairy Gold and a halfbrother of Friar Rock Flittergold and Fail1 Tluy the sire of Man o War was a 14000 yearling of last year He has been a bit back ¬ ward But he is working satisfactorily for Thomas Welsh now The dockers are of the opinion that he is at least as good as his stable companion Armenus a son of Irish Lad and Armenia and a halfbrother of the Epsom Derby winner of 1914 the Rabelais stallion Durbar Fair Gain will not remain away from the races after Joseph E Wide ner and Welsh Income convinced that he is ready for the colors They are not the kind to keep a horse under cover coverFilly Filly eligibles for the Sanford Memorial that may maywait wait on the Spinaway which tills year will have a value of 7500 are Beaming Beauty Bonnie BonnieMary Mary Cleopatra Masked Dancer and Cinderella CinderellaProbably Probably it would be just as well for tbees misses Continued on second page RACING OF HIGH QUALITY Continued from first pagel to come to the post in the Spinaway as fresh as it is possible fit get them For in the Spinaway they may have to tackle Panoply and Afternoon the crack fillies of the division of the stable of Harry Payne Whitney which AJbert Simons Is training also Mrs Jeffords lightfooted Frying Flower George Wl Lofts Gcrma W J Salmons Betty J James W McClellands Penelope and Commander Ross His Choice Afternoon and Panoply have Dancer developments of the Saratoga meeting are highly regarded Cleopntra is a daughter of Corcyra and Gallice Masked Dancer is a daughter of Disguise and Tripping Beaming Beauty is a homebred daughter ofSweep and Belisario She lias shown speed here and at Latonia LatoniaIt It happens that none of the great moneyearning threeyearolds of the current seasons racing is in the Travers But the Travers will be none the worse for the absence on Saturday of such as Purchase Eternal and Sir Barton The colts that may start which are regarded now as second raters will meet on terms that will make the result ex ¬ tremely uncertain Nothing stands out The colts the Travers bids fair to attract are Commander J K L Hoss War Pennant the son of Jim Gaffney whicli won i the Waldcn Stakes at Pimlico last fall fall8iSmuorCl 8iSmuorCl Hildrcths 25000 Cirrus winner of the Knickerbocker Handicat at Yonkers also Mad Hatter an unusually promising son of Fair Play and Madcap which has not come to the races so far this year although ha has time hud again showed speed in work H K Knapps Thunderclap James F Johnsons the Quincy Stable Yurucari William Starrs War Zone Richard T Wilsons Hannibal and Harry Payne Whitneys Vindexv VindexvWar War Pennant attracted attention1 here last week weekwhcaJiftjlcrcated whcaJiftjlcrcated Dojnlnant in ajsprint of three quarters of a mile It is clear that his feet are in good condition again and H G Bedwell will have had time against the running of the Travers to have prepared him for a bruising race of one mIeand a quarter Hannibal seems to have been badly matched in the Delaware Handicap which Fairy Wand won in l3ft from Sun Briar and Ex ¬ terminator but he is in firstrate condition Im ¬ mediately after the finish of the Kenncr Stakes a week ago Saturday Hannibal took up jockey Ensor iiud galloped a mile anil an eighth in 152 flat The Olambala colt which won the Keene Memorial Memorial5f19J8atf 5f19J8atf ijelniont Park and tlie Saratoga Special Specialup up here has grown into a stalwart threeyearold threeyearoldVimlex Vimlex of which so much was expected in the spring Is oing well again after a long period of backwardness and Natural Bridge Cirrus Yuru cari and Thunderclap are doing everything that is listed of fliein
