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WILL NOT MEET SATURDAY Little Prospects of Man o War and Sir Barton Clashing in the Jockey Club Stakes at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y., September 0. There will be no meeting between Man War and Sir Barton in the Jockey Club Stakes on Saturday next despite the offer of the Westchester Racing Association to add an additional 0,000 to the ,000 with which tbe event was already endowed, unless Commander J. K. L. Ross, who is in Canada, overrules the decision of his trainer, H. G. Bedwell. Both Mr. Riddle and trainer Fuestel say that Man o War will go to the post, no matter who opposes him. Unfortunately geldings are barred from The Jockey Club Stakes or Exterminator would probably enter the lists on that occasion. With him out of the way there is no long-distance horse outside of Sir Barton capable of making the champion three-year-old extend himself. "I would need a much longer time to get my horse ready for a race with Man o War than the period that now remains before The Jockey Club Stakes is to be run. Sir Barton has been on the cars a lot, and as he is a gross horse and fills up quickly Jie requires much more work than any other of my string. As a matter of fact, he is the hardest horse to train that I have ever laid anything to do with, and everybody knows what I had to do with him to get him ready for the Derby last year. He worked three-quarters of a mile this morning In 1:14 and after pulling up Mowed as though he had .run a mile and a half. It is going to take a long time to get him where I think he would be at his best, and when I meet Man o War I dont want to have any excuses. He was not himself when he ran against Gnome at Saratoga, although he won that race." As Bedwell has absolute charge of the Ross horses and Commander Ross has every confidence in his ability to train and manage them, it is a foreogone conclusion, in the opinion of those who know the Canadian sportsman, that he will acquiesce in any plan which his trainer may formulate. I
