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FINE STEEPLECHASING FOR SARATOGA Course Through the Field Made Over Best Jumpers to Meet There During Month of August SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y July 12 A notable feature of the racing at Aqueduct is the improve ¬ ment in the quality of the steeplechasing A hard winter and a cold wet spring mndn it im ¬ possible for the owners of the best crosscountry horses of the East to get their charges ready for the steeplechasing in May and June with the result that the crosscountry racing of the Pimlico and Belmont Park meetings was hardly up to the best standard But the fine warm schooling weather of the last six or seven weeks has had its effect The stiffness Js working out of the joints of the veteran juuiners of nil classes and suppleness is returning to their muscles The fields C the Aqueduct steeplechases are improving right along and the jumping events have been furnishing such spirited sport they have actually become star at ¬ tractions tractionsThe The steeplechasing at Saratoga will be better still because by the time the jumpers get here they will all be in tiptop condition and special preparation is being made to facilitate their train ing and give them profitable employment The hardness of the Saratoga field which bakes to the consistency of cement if it is not properly at ¬ tended to has handicapped the efforts of the Sara ¬ toga Racing Association to develop firstclass steeplechasing in the past But that has been remedied Superintendent Claire by diligent top dressing and other scientific treatment has de ¬ veloped a sod of the dcnsencss and resiliency of English sod and he has made over the training field of the Oklahoma course until it is good enough itself for steeplechasing steeplechasingThe The crosscountry program of the Saratoga As ¬ sociation for the month of August provides four stakes of substantial value and at least four over ¬ night races u week That the owners of the strong ¬ est crosscountry stables of the east will take full advantage of the provision the Saratoga As ¬ sociation has made for their jumpers is evidenced by the number and the character of the nomina ¬ tions for the Saratoga steeplechase stakes The Boverwyck Steeplechase Handicap 1500 added two miles has drawn 34 nominations the North American 2000 added two miles and the Shil lelah 1500 added two miles the same number each and the Saratoga 2500 added two miles and a half 31 31The The nominators in Saratogas jumping races nre F Ambrose Clark Mrs Clark Joseph E Drtvis the Dosorte Stable J F Flannagaii Jr Mrs Payne Whitney E C Griffith II Edwin Griffith Wal ¬ ter M Jeffords Mrs Jeffords John Lumsden Rnl Parr Mrs A M N Singer G R Tompkins Wil ¬ liam Wick George D WIdener Larry Waterbury I W Maxwell and Joseph E Widcner WidcnerThe The roster of eligible for the Saratoga Stccple chase which will be a handicap for fouryearolds mid over of the better grade is typical of the meeting Robin Goodfellow Kwoneshee Highland Light Geneviuve B tilysian Blighty II Canrti late Minata Surf 4 Queen Hibler Quel Bonhcur rooks Earlocker Valspar Syrdarya Lytle Syns et IKbadou Square Dealer Flare Jack of Spades KarkUe Smithfield Robert Oliver Decisive Royal Arch LL Marsuiitn Midas Ticket Wisest Fool Doublet Montserat etc are in the Saratoga Most if them are in the other three steeplechases steeplechasesIt It happens that the Saratoga steeplechases closed jofcrc several of the capable steeplechasers the queduot meeting has developed began to show their i ul form But efforts will be made to bring such f these new horses as will not have chances to neet the better cf the stake horses in stakes in ompetitioii with the stake horses in overnight aces SiiiuuiI D Riddle has in Contc de Fee u Frenchbred son of Sardinapale an exceptionally noinisiug green jumper Conte de Fee fenced faultlessly and discovered encouraging familiarity ivith his appointed role on June 28 in the race in vhich he brought up third to Minata and Valspar Phis was Conte de Fees first race thfonjli the iold Midas the gigantic son of Macdenald llarie Louise II which won on July 1 is u prom sing development of the Parr stable Midas is a eveutcenhand giant and the biggest crosscountry lorse in training i 3
