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NOMINATIONS TO SARATOGA SPECIAL Reveals Strength of TwoYearold Division of Strongest American Stables SARATOGA SIHIXGS X Y July 12 The strength of the twoyearold divisiorts of the strongest American racing stables is disclosed by tho nominations just made by twentyfour east ¬ ern and western horsemen in the Saratoga Special It is not beyond the limits of probability that the 107 youngsters nominated for the Special will prove to be the 107 best colts and fillies of the season of 1920 although It Is possible that one or two stars may have been left out as Billy Kelly was two years ago and Man o War last year As a general thing the Special draws the best youngsters racing racingThe The most sportsmanlike of American races be ¬ cause it is an affair of the nominating horsemen who put up 500 apiece for the privilege of nam ¬ ing on June 15 of each year three candidates only one of which may start under a single subscrip ¬ tion the Special has since 1901 been considered one of the greatest of American twoyearold races Generally it is run on the second Saturday of the Saratoga meeting which now as in the past takes up the entire month of August Itegularly It brings to New Yorks most picturesque and popular race course thousands of sport loving men and women from all parts of this country and Canada CanadaThe The Special attracts the best twoyearolds In the stables of the subscribing nominators who in ¬ variably are representatives of the best there is in American sportsmanship because the subscribers are not required to name their candidates until June 15 IJy that time every trainer has had time iu wliich to separate his juvenile chaff from the solid grain There is no six months ahead guessing as to the possibilities in the youngsters named for the Saratoga Special SpecialKacing Kacing folk will be interested to know that every good twoyearold of either sex barring Careful the sensation of the Maryland meetings shown so far is in the Special that will be decided at Sara ¬ toga next August Harry Payne Whitney who has taken three subscriptions has named Tryster thfi Juvenile and Keene Memorial winner and Prudery winner of the Fashion and the Rosedale in separate subscriptions Kirklttvington and Dimmesdale are nominations of Kichard T Wilson president of the Saratoga Association who has won Specials with Campfire and Hannibal which like his two yearold stars of the current season were sons of Olambala OlambalaThe The names of the Special nominators are neces ¬ sarily of especial interest to all liorsefolk Not all of them may be in the great Saratoga race but they will be running in other races and the fact that they have been put in a race to enter which costs 500 places them definitely and high up in the scale of class Not more than fifteen or twenty of the Special nominations have started so far Twoyearolds are backward this spring springLIST LIST OF NOMINATORS NOMINATORSFollowing Following are the names of the Special candi ¬ dates Harry Payne Whitney first subscription Ararat Tryster and a brown colt unnamed by Broomstick Wonder second subscription Exodus Prudery and a bay colt by Broomstick Spuuglass third subscription Charity an unnamed chestnut colt by Whisk Broom Pankhurst and an unnamed bay filly by Whisk Broom Inaugural InauguralCommander Commander J 1C L Itoss first subscription Star Voter Bustile and Sun Turret second sub ¬ scription Intrigante Jacobina and Pampas Mrs Walter M Jeffords Wild Heather Two Feather Discretion James W McClelland first subscrip ¬ tion Ijeoiiardo Despair John Paul Jones sec ¬ ond subscription Bon Ilomme Edgar Allan Poe Serapis Hal Parr Musty Some Baby Smarty George W Loft Polar Tamarisk and Halu Ed ¬ ward H Bradley Balance Check Behave Yourself and Black Servant Johnson N Camden Darjeeling Rangoon and Dark Ben Max Hirsch The Foreigner Streamer and Grey Leg Gifford A Cochran St Michael Smoke Screen and Banksia W It Cot first subscription St Patrick Arapahoe and Mavehona second subscription Pahuska Wapiti and Shy Ann Mrs Payne Whitney Greentree Stable Touch Me Not Irish Sea and Costly Col ¬ ours II H Hewitt Travesty Slipalong and Had Her Way Frank J Kelly Gangway Greater Amer ¬ ica and Ho Hum Willis Sharpe Kilmer Magic Silence Our Flag and Sobrizade A K Macomber The Bohemian and The Albatross H K Knapp Oueck Stable Uouyhnhnm Fruili and Fright FrightRedstone Redstone Stable Monsatery Billy McLaughlin and Sporting Blood John II Rosseter Inchcape Mer ¬ chant Marine and Montlavo Morton L Schwartz Care Free Comment and Cote dOr Larry Water bury Our Boots Ailiro and Horoscope George D Widener Messines Last Straw and Sammy Jay Richard T Wilson Kirkleviujjtou Dimmeadale and Knight of the Heather HeatherIt It is significant that most of the highpriced youngsters of the yearling sales of 1919 are among these Special nominations Sun Turret one of the Ross nominations was the top price horse of the Saratoga sales He brouglit 25000 The Canadian turfman paid S15000 for Star Voter which has won iu Maryland T6uch Me Not is a sou of Celt and Dainty Dame for which Mrs Whitney paid 9000 Irish Sea a son of Celt Sand Dune cost Mrs Whitney 22500 St Pat ¬ rick a son of Celt Patricia IV cost Mr Coe 15000 The other Coe nominations were bred at Mr Coes stud which is domiciled on the Shoshone ranch in Wyoming Musty a son of Ultimus Diviuation cost Ral Parr U000
