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INDUCEMENTS FOR PLATERS i Saratoga Association After the Better Grade of That Division. L Protection Against the "Gyps" Provided in Conditions for Races During Closing Week. BY T. K. LYNCH. SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y., August 22. The officers of the Saratoga Association are making .very effort to induce owners of high-class platers to enter more liberally in selling and claiming races during the closing days of the meeting. The conditions of some of the races for the last six days of racing are framed to permit the highest type of the selling platers to start without fear of molestation from the numerous "gyps" who are gathered here this summer. On Monday next in the opening race, which is one of those French claiming affairs, horses call be filtered for as much as , 0H, and on Wednesday, in another French claiming race, they can be entered for as high as 0,000. This, of course, means the class of these races will be on a much higher standard than during the earlier days of the meeting, when several old winter campaigners were returned winners. Just imagine a. maiden steeplechaser winning on the flat here as did Katie Canal! Other winners were Celto, King John, Hauberk, Queen of the Sea, Kilkenny, Ivry and old Back Bay. Some of the horsemen are advocating that in all claiming races the conditions call for claims to be lodged previous, and not after, the running of a race and that the purse in every instance go to the owner in whose name a horse was entered. Francis Nelson, one of the big men in Canadian racing and presiding steward on all tracks that raced under the supervision of the Canadian Hating Associations, was an arrival. He motored down lrom Buffalo with Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Brunell :ind will remain for a few days. Roddy i. Marshall, who left several days ago for a visit to Atlantic City, returned yesterday and will remain for the remainder of the meeting. The yearlings purchased by Mr. Marshall at the recent sales will be shipped to the Marshall farm near Pittsburgh, where they will be broken and turned out for the winter. W. P. BURCH TO RACE AT HAVRE DE GRACE. Win. P. Burcli, who is training a rather extensive string here for several different owners, has decided to ship to Havre de Grace. The big stakes ;iid purses offered at that course have proved a jnagnet too strong for Mr. Burcli to resist. Then, too, Crank, one of the racers that he is training lor the Washington turfman, Samuel Ross, is imrtial to the track at Havre de Grace and as this particular horse is in exceptionally good form just now it looks as if he might have a chance of winning one of the 0,000 stakes which will be run sit that meeting. James Arthur had a bit of bad luck up here. All of the horses he shipped from Empire City and Maryland took sick en route and have been laid up suffering from slight colds. They were just sick enough to stop Arthur from going along with them and when they rounded to it was too late to get them ready for the racing here. With a long fall campaign in front of them the letup they have had will benefit them greatly. The stables young rider Kiehcreek will be out of the saddle for a couple of months, but Arthur has a second bow to his string in Rodriguez, who is again in good condition and ready to ride. Rodriguez lias been galloping horses for a mouth past and will be seen in the .saddle again at Havre de Grace. Ernest Hall will ship his stable to Maryland pome day next week. The horses trained by W. A. Jturttschell will leave at the same time. -I. II.- Rosseter, the California sportsman, whose kind includes among others the two good fillies Wedding Cake and Passing Shower, is expected Jiere next week to confer witli trainer Charles Casey jind II. Tf Griffin" "who Is looking after the management of the stable, as to what disposition will lie made of the undesirable material in the string and also to map out plans for a winters campaign. The horses will probably be sent from here, to Belmont Park, hut as to whether they will go into winter Quarters at the conclusion of the metropolitan racing, or sent to one of the winter tracks, has not as yet been decided. Captain Washburn, who before entering the army was connected with the H. G. Bedwell stable as veterinary, was a visitor this afternoon. Captain Washburn has only recently returned from overseas, where lie was in command of the Third Army Veterinary Hospital. The .1. O. Keene stable left tonight for Kentucky. Mose Goldblatt, who came cast witli rather a pTRteutious string, among them the three-year-old Jennings Park, which lie disposed of for 5,000 to Larry Watcrbury, returned to Kentucky tonight. He took back witli him a draft from the Harry Payne Whitney stable, among them the fast sprinter Dominant, also Kowes Bud, Guess Again and Wendy.
