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SPLENDID STEEPLECHASE MATERIAL Gwyn Tompkins Says More High-Class Horses Are Being Schooled for Jumping than Ever Before. BY T. K. IANCH. SARATOGA SPRINGS, X. Y., August 20. Gwyn Tompkins, than whom there is no better judge of a steeplechaser in the country, is authority for the statement that there are more high-class horses being schooled through the field at present than ever before in the history of cross-country sport in America. "One day at Belmont Park I saw r.o fewer than thirty green fencers schooling, and many of them were three-year-olds. Barring one or two they jumped in a manner that gave every indication that they will develop into high-class fencers, and I predict that large fields will go to the post in many of the steeplechases run at the different tracks next fall." The Greentree Stable has a particularly promising trio in Roi Craig, Wyndover and Sweepment. It is said that the three cost their new owners 5,000. They were left over at Belmont Park, where Jimmy Owens and V. Powers are preparing them for the Harbor Hill Cup and other engagements at the Maryland fall meetings. Gwyn Tompkins has what he considers a promising pair in LEffare and Highland Light. A few days ago the Virginia turfman signed Yourall to do his riding, and the latter is schooling the Tompkins pair through the field. Lewis Gartli has nine green jumpers that lie is schooling for V. T. Wilkinson, and F. Ambrose Clark has a half dozen down at his farm at Cooperstown, X. Y. Joseph E. Davis has a couple, and G. W. Loft, a newcomer into steeplechasing, has three or four, among them Papp. John Kermath has a half dozen new ones for X. Prime4indJT.-Gwathmey-cn;lr ilWido--. ner, Coe and Griffith stables also have some promising material. PIMLICO ENCOURAGES STEEPLECHASING. The Maryland Jockey Club is doing more than any other club in the country to encourage crosscountry sport, and Pimlico offers the only 0,000 stake for jumpers in the country. This course is a sort of gathering place for all of the big owners of steeplechasers, and the races through the field at the spring and fall meetings there are the strongest attraction offered by the club. Horsemen are already making preparations for a winters campaign at either New Orleans or Havana. Some have already announced their plans and others are waiting to see what offerings the rival clubs will make in the way of stakes and purses. Wm. A. Carter, who trains the horses racing in the nom de course of the Armonia Stable, is the first to announce his intention of shipping direct to one of the winter tracks from here. At the conclusion of the Saratoga meeting lie will send his entire band to New York, where they will be loaded on a steamer and sent to Havana. Carter turned out twelve horses at the Armonia plantation near Mailtanzas last spring. He is anxious to get back and take them up, so that they will be ready when the meeting at Oriental Park begins. He received a letter from one of his employes, Fernandez Morales, in which the latter predicts that the meeting at Oriental Park next winter will eclipse in point of importance all others given at the Cuban course. Carter ships from here the mare Lackawanna, Walnut Hall and a couple of others, among them a two-year-old by Tracery Moneta. A yearling brother to the latter was purchased at the sales here by J. W. McClelland for 10,000. The Tracery colt has never been to the post, but has shown some flattering trials. W. C. Daly is schooling Kockport and Peerless One through the field, and the latter is said to be promising. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary at Havre de Grace, is expected here within the next few days. Havre de Grace, with its flattering inducements to the horsemen, is certain to have a great meeting. OLD SARATOGA EMPLOYE DEAD. Reid Landers, for eighteen years employed by the Saratoga Association as track superintendent, died suddenly here this morning at his home on the grounds. Mr. Landers was apparently in good health yesterday and visited several of the horsemen at their stables, among them Thomas J. Healey. He is said to have suffered a stroke. Before coming to the Saratoga course Mr. Landers filled the position of farm superintendent for the late Henry Hilton, whose estate is one of the show places in this part of the country. II. G. Bedwell received a letter from ex-jockey Lindsey which brought the news that he had lost one of his legs as a result of an accident. Lindsey is at present in Jacksonville, Florida. His old friends among the jockeys here have taken up a subscription to purchase him an artificial limb. Jimmy Johnston is said to have suffered a third stroke of paralysis at his home in Queens, Long Island. M. J. Winn, general manager of the Kentucky tracks, who has been spending a few weeks here, will leave Friday for his home in Covington, Ky. Colonel Winn is most enthusiastic over the outlook for the fall meetings in Kentucky and predicts that "the sport will be of a high caliber. "If large purses will bring the best horses there we will see that the money is hung up," said Mr. Winn. A. G. Weston has arranged to leave for Pimlico Continued on second page. . SPLENDID STEEPLECHASE MATERIAL Continued from first page. next week. He has a half dozen yearlings at the old hilltop track, three by Dalhousie and three by Bryn Mawr. All of Mr. .Clydes mares which are quartered at the farm at Shrewsbury, N. J., were bred to Dalhousie this spring. Hart Dcniham, agent for the James Butler stable, leaves tomprrow for Havre de Grace. He will motor back to Maryland. Several of the horses in the Arthur establishment, including Lord Herbert, Enrico Caruso and Bondage went wrong after their arrival here, but haye rounded to again and will be ready for the Havre" de Grace meeting. . Mile. Dazie and Oleaster, owned by W. V. Thraves, will be shipped to Lexington in the W. Perkins car which leaves the latter part of the week. Purchase was much admired by the large throng that went to the paddock to witness Sam Hil-dreth saddle the great three-year-old for the race. He is certainly a handsome horse and looked every inch the equine gentleman that he is.
