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SARATOGAS BEST MEETING Indications Point to Wonderful Season of Sport in August Americas Famous Racing Grounds Groundsto to Attract Largest Crowds Crowdsin in Its History SARATOGA SPRIXGS X Y June 21 Sara ¬ toga undoubtedly has its best season ahead Al ¬ though the beginning of the SaratogaRacing Asso ¬ ciations thoroughbred race meeting which is to take up the entire month of August is nearly seven weeks distant managers of the hotels hoarding and lodging houses and other places of public entertainment are already announcing that their rooms are bespoken for August and they are looking to residents who have never entertained strangers for shelter for persons who neglected in May to provide for themselves The Republican party leaders of Xew York have picked a bad month August is the month they have selected in which to bring a state convention to Saratoga The already sweating mayors committee of en ¬ tertainment and the harddriven village publicity agent have no idea whatever what they are going to do with the visiting delegates and statesmen of the O 1 while the place is crowded with folks from all parts of the United States and Can ¬ ada interested in the thoroughbred and his doings doingsThe The race meeting in August will IMS the ban ¬ ner attraction of the year for Saratoga Springs and it promises the l est sport that will have been witnessed in the East through the season For years Saratoga has been the great meeting place in August of the thoroughbred stars of Maryland XcssXorkOJity Kjjiitugky jiiid CajiHdiaji circuits and the impending meeting of tlie Saratoga As ¬ sociation for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses promises to bring to the races in top con ¬ dition more cluimpions than any meeting of tlie last twenty years has attracted Many star per ¬ formers of various ages that have not trained sat ¬ isfactorily on account of a cold damp spring for earlier racing about Xew York and in Kentucky will just be coming into form when the Saratoga inccting begins beginsThe The impending meeting will be marked by re ¬ newals at increased values of the Saratoga Handi ¬ cap and Saratoga Cup also the Delaware Mer ¬ chants and Citizens and Champlain Handicaps wiih divers events of minor importance for threeyear olds and over the Miller Travers and Alabama for threeyearolds exclusively the Saratoga Spe ¬ cial Spinawny Hopeful Grand Union United States Hotel Sanford Memorial and Adirondack and half a dozen less important events for twoyearolds and the Saratoga Shilleluh Beverwyck and Xorth American steeplechases steeplechasesIt It is a little early to be predicting the fields in any of the Saratoga races but it is certain that the best horses of all ages will be seen here under colors Far from hurting Saratoga the com ¬ petition of the Canadian courses at Windsor Fort Erie and Hamilton will help racing up here hereSARATOGA SARATOGA CUP REAL RACE The Saratoga Handicap a race of one mile and a quarter is an event much like the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps The Saratoga Cup a weight for age race at one mile and threequarters for threeyearolds and over is the countrys only great championship event that boasts of continuous history and romantic tradition It is the only American horse race that deserves to lie called a classic because it is the only American race for threeyearolds and over in which all contestants are required to shoulder stake weight and run hard and fast over a long distance of ground groundThe The Delaware Handicap a dash of one mile en ¬ joys the unique distinction of having in one year brought to the post a threeyearold to establish a new American record for one mile and in the year following to have attracted a mare that equaled that record In 1118 Willis Sharpe Kilmers great English colt Sun Briar established a new Amer ¬ ican record of l3Mi for one mile when he de ¬ feated Midway and some other fast milers in the Delaware In 181 when Gifford A Ooch rans Fairy Wand beat Sun Briar a nose on the jxist in the Delaware she equaled his record The record jointly held by Sun Briar and Fair Wand was shattered at Belmont Park when the incom ¬ parable Man War galloped one mile in 135 in front of Wildair and DavM Ilarnm in the With ¬ ers but it is not improbable that Man o Wars new record will l e beaten n the coming Delaware Man o War himself is in the Delaware with thirty or forty other fleet racers racersSaratogas Saratogas threeyearold specials of the great ¬ est importance are the Miller and the Travers respectively gallops of one mile and thrcesi tecnth and one mile and a quarter for colts and fil ¬ lies and the Alabama a gallop of one mile and a quarter for fillies exclusively The Miller was formerly the Kenner The name of this race was changed last winter to do proper bolter to the memory of the late Andrew Miller long the pub ¬ lisher of Life one of the organizers of the Sara ¬ toga Association and the treasurer of the organi ¬ zation when he died diedThe The Saratoga Special a sprint of threequarters of a mile for twoyearolds which costs the associa ¬ tion nothing more from season to season than the price jf a golden trophy is the most sportsmanlike of all American races because it is a subscription affair of 500 each in which the twoyearold rep ¬ resentatives of the nominators race for their own ¬ ers money Generally the Special brings to the post the best twoyearold of the season because nominators are not compelled to name their po ¬ tential starters until the middle of June after they have been tried thoroughly and their capabilities gauged gaugedThe The Hopeful is Saratogas great produce race which has annually a value of about 150000 and as often as not tops the Futurity that is renewed at Belmont Park The Spinaway a 100011 race at threequarters of a mile is exclusively a fillies rare The other firstclass events for twoyear johls are the Grand Union Hotifr tho United States Hotel and Sanford Memorial the last named being Saratogas tribute to the memory of the late Gen ¬ eral Stephen Sanford for years Xew Yorks lead lint producer of thoroughbreds
