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POWERFUL STABLE FORMING Best Horses Money Can Buy to Carry Colors of L Waterbury Operation on Jack Hare Jr a Success Timonium Park Is Greatly Improved BY T K LYNCH LYNCHSARATOGA SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y August 14 The colors of Lawrence Waterbury a gentleman who is gathering together quite a formidable stable will be seen in public for the first time here prob ¬ ably the latter part of the Saratoga meeting The Waterbury establishment it is understood is be ¬ ing financed byf a powerful Wall street combina ¬ tion and the intentions are to secure some of the best horses in training to carry the stables colors Five yearlings were purchased at the recent sales at a cost of 45100 and the threeyearold Sen nings Park was secured at private sale for 25000 Ticket was bought from Andrew Miller and nego ¬ tiations are in progress looking for the transfer of a couple of other highclass racers The chestnut yearling colt by Celt Sand Dune was the highest priced yearling purchased He cost his new owners 22500 and is considered by shrewd judges as one of the handsomest individuals offered at the recent sales He is an upstanding rangy sort of a young ¬ ster and on his breeding he should certainly be a stayer He was secured only after spirited com ¬ petition with Commander J K L Ross and Samuel D Riddle RiddleT T J Harmon trainer for the Kentucky Stable will look after the care of the horses for Mr Waterbury and Ehll T Chiiin will act in an ad ¬ visory capacity As yet no rider has been secured for the stable but a firstclass jockey will be con ¬ tracted for before next spring The yearlings have already been shipped to the Himyar Farm in Ken ¬ tucky which has been leased by Qhinn QhinnJack Jack Hare Jr which was making his first ap ¬ pearance of the year in the Burnt Hills Handicap ran a creditable race The colt was operated upon with the hope of improving his wind and the opera ¬ tion judging by his showing in this race has evidently been a success The colt looks in grand condition bodily and needs but a race or two to round him back to the splendid form he displayed as a two and threeyearold threeyearoldBUMOB BUMOB OF TBACK NEAB BUFFALO BUFFALOThere There is quite a delegation here from Buffalo for the meeting They are enthusiastic racegoers and it Is understood that a scheme is on foot to bring the sport back in Erie County Rumor has it that a company has already been formed and that 300000 has been pledged for the building of a modern and uptodate course A site has already been selected and the location is said to be in the vicinity of where the Kenilworth Park track was Witli the high cost of material and labor it is un ¬ likely that work on the plant will begin before 1921 but at all events Buffaloniaus will have a nice course of their own in the near future futureThe The horses that S A Clopton left in Maryland last spring have been shipped from the Devers farm to Havre de Grace course where they joined the division shipped from Empire City to the Mary ¬ land track The stable numbers fifteen head It is understood that a half dozen yearlings will be added to the string and the entire band will be shipped to the Jefferson Park track in New Or ¬ leans at the conclusion of the Laurel meeting meetingWilliam William P Biggs who is here in the interests of the Laurel and Pimlico meeting predicts thai the Timonium fair this year will be the biggest thing of its kind ever held in Jfciryland During the summer the fair association made many im ¬ provements to its plant and purchased five addi ¬ tional acres which will be used as a parking space for automobiles The grandstand was moved back fifteen feet adding that much more room to the lawn Besides 50000 was expended on the con ¬ struction of an exhibition building for the housing of livestock Another building was erected which will be used to judge cattle and sheep It is a sort of an amphitheater affair and the idea is to use it at different times to hold sales of blue blooded stock This building will be donated at any time at a nominal cost to the breeders in Maryland for daily offering of seven races Purses of 300 will be added in four of the races two of 400 and one of 500 Steeplechasing which is popular with the Maryland people will be featured at the fair fairBarney Barney Oldfield who has been here since the opening of the meeting left for his home in Cleve ¬ land last night Oldfield la now in the tire business and has retired as a driver He is still as enthu ¬ siastic a racegoer as ever and will be back in Netv York for the sport some time in October OctoberThe The beautifully bred Donnacona by Prince Pala ¬ tine Kildonan that carried the colors of G W Loft in the Sanford Memorial was much admired by horsemen who watched his preparation for the race in the paddock Max Hirsch has gone rather slow with this fellow with the idea of giving him Continued OB wcoao page POWERFUL STABLE FORMING Continued from first page plenty of time to fill out and develop By the time fall rolls around watch out said Hirscli This is a firstclass colt Along in about October r I will not be afraid to pit him against any of f them themJille Jille Garson is well pleased with the Ileno Pastora colt that he secured at the sale of the Belair yearlings He is small but all horse and I is one of the best muscled youngsters I ever saw I only paid 400 for him and have since refused 1 1000 so it was not a bad buy buyR R D McDqnlel lias decided to retire the steeple ¬ chaser Fair Mae for the remainder of the racing I season The horse went wrong the last time it it started and is still quite lame lameMontford Montford Jones is the latest of the eastern turf ¬ men to announce liis intention of wintering ills is horses at the Oaklawn track Hot Springs Edward 1 Girrison will take the stable to the Arkansas course e at the conclusion of the Kentucky racing season A notice was posted in the secretarys office here e asking horsemen who contemplated shipping their r stables to Belmont Park to place their application n for stalls with Harry Pclz in the latters office e under the grandstand here hereJ J J Flanagan a recent arrival from Kentucky has taken over the division of the James Butler r stable quartered at the Empire City tracks Flana ¬ gan is a capable horseman and it was he who o trainod Short Grass when that racer showed such h high class form when racing in the colors of Emil il Hera HeraE E E Moore lodged a claim for Scotch Verdict t which was carded as a starter in the first race i It was one of those French claiming races arid d when Moore claimed him the horse was automati ¬ cally scratched
