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HANDICAP PROSPECTS FOR SARATOGA Some Fine Bating Promised Between Stars of Older Division Now at Top of Their Form SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y July 20 Tliere will lie nt least a dozen matured distance runners of tin first class nt the top of their form when the Saratoga midsummer meeting begins here on August 2 It is a certainty therefore that the five first great races for threeyearolds and iver on the Saratoga program the Saratoga Handicap Sar ¬ atoga Cup the Merchants and Citizens Champlalti and Delaware II ami leaps will have a creditable en try list of true and tried performers jncludilng aUlch as the vastly improved Audacious Boniface and Ex ¬ terminator also Mad Hatter Sir Barton Cirrus Be Frank Thunderclap The Iorter Corn Tassel Naturalist etc And thee is a possibility tlmt Lueullite and Sunny Slope will be ready to race Lucullitti is training soundly after being lame most of the spring and Sunny Slope which bowed n tendon last summer raced at Latoilla its he did about New York a year ago last autumn Immedi ¬ ately after the late J I Elwell paid William Mar ¬ tin 25000 for him himThe The fine form dispayed by Exterminator Cirrus Boniface and Audacious has been one of the features of the current season Exterminators victories In the Lunz Beach and Brookdale Handicaps have been accomplished in Filch1 fashion as to indicate that the McGee gelding is still a formidable opponent in any kind of company Boniface winner of the Pimlico Sprilig Clark and Kentucky Handicaps and the contender behind the lightly weighted Cirrus in the Brooklyn Handicap has been it revelation to turf goers this year To date he has won eight races and is third on the lisr of the money winning horses of the year with S31S24 to his credit creditCirrus Cirrus a failure last year is racing this summer as Samuel 0 Hildreth believed that he might race when he paid a large price to Harry Payno Whitney for him in October 1918 Audacious winner of the Carter has been slow coming to himself because of a bid foot Hut the manner of his running in the Carter at Aqueduct proved that he was about as formidable as any fourjear old in the country SIR BARTON TO BE READY READYThe The word of H G Bedw ll trainer of the stable of Commander 1 K L Rcs of Montreal which already has earned a matter of 100000 in stakes and purses has been passed that Sir Barton will be in winning form again before the horses come this way from Yonkers Sir lliirton a great bull of a horse with a gluttonous appetite was knocked out by byn n course of early spring training under ¬ taken tliat he might race in the best of the Mary ¬ land races cf April and May for threeyearolds and oycr Ucdwell has had to make him over again Hut that task is accomplished Sir Barton is training soundly and as satisfactorily as any one could desire desireIt It is the ambition of Commander Ross tqjiave Sir Barton win the only real American champion ¬ ship race for threeyearolds and over before he breaks down and is sent to the stud To gratify tills desire of the Canadian turfman Bedwoll is pointing Sir Barton for the Saratoga Cup a race of one mile and threoMiuarters for threeyearolds mid over the only real American cliariiplonship event because it is the only race over a long distance of ground in which threeyearolds and older horses meet at scale weight weightThe The successes threeyearolds have scored so often in weJghtforage races moved The Jockey Club a couple of years back to revise the scale in favor of the older horses with the result that last year Exterminator easily tcok the measure of the brilliant Purchase in the Saratoga Cup Ex ¬ terminators success of last summer has heartened the owners of older horses generally and there is sure to be a big representation of the older divi ¬ sion in the impending renewal of the Saratoga Cup which will be inn on the last day of the August meeting along with flic Hopeful Saratogas great ¬ est and most valuable race for twoyearolds of both sexes sexesThe The Saratoga Handicap which will be a gallop of one mile and a quarter will be the opening day feature Tile Delaware and the Merchants anil Citizens will be midseasoii attractions The Del ¬ aware is a race of one mile in the 1918 renewal of which Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sim Briar the ju ¬ venile hero of Saratosa racing in 1917 established a new Amuriaii record for one mile 136M In last years renewal f the Delaware Fairy Wand beat sun Briar by a nose and equaled his record of 1118 Man o War in the running of the Withers of 1920 lowered the jointly held record of Sun Briar anil Fairy Wand to l 5
