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; i . ; . I 1 ; " I 1 ! - ; : FORESEE WONDERFUL SPORT Saratoga Racing of 1921 Expected to Be of Extraordinary Quality. SARATOGA SPRINGS, X. Y., July i. As the Saratoga season draws near the impression gains strength that the sport here this year will be of extraordinary quality. There are many reasons for this belief. Chief among them is the number of good two-year-olds just commencing to show form, and the return to the turf of Purchase, a handicap horse of such prowess that he must be considered a factor in racing as long as he stands training. It is such horses as Man o War. Purchase. Exterminator and Grey Lag that keeps interest in the thoroughbred alive. Everybody with a fondness for a good horse wants to see such as these in action against their kind. Those with the means at their disposal to conduct breeding studs yearn to produce a horse that can overcome his fellows in the tests of the race course, and then give posterity a son or daughter as good or better than himself. When great beauty of form, perfection of coloring and magnilicciice of physical development is found in the same horse, as in the case of Purchase, he commands the admiration of those who love the beautiful in nature as well as those whose taste runs to the more material affairs of racing. The paddock at Saratoga Springs will undoubtedly be thronged whenever the lordly son of Ormondale is carded to sport silk. The presence of Purchase among the eligibles for the Saratoga Handicap clothes that race with great interest. Should he go to the post on Monday. j August 1, to contest the honors in this fine test of a mile and a quarter, he will no doubt have company, as his stable companions Grey Lag, Mad Hatter, Cirrus, Lucullite and Thunderclap are also engaged. Tin; ltancocas entry, whatever it may be on tliat occasion, will find foeuieu worthy of their steel in Yellow Hand; the most improved horse in training, Exterminator; the noblest Komnn of them all. liest Pal, and Black Servant; the hopes of Kentucky. Audacious, a fleet and game son of Star Shoot; The Porter, a wonderful little horse wheib just right: Boniface, one of -the irouliorses of the turff Gnome. a superb indivfdnTUnnif,a horse of attainments, as all who saw his race with Sir Barton at this point last year must admit; Donnacona, a beautifully bred four-year-old whose sulking proclivities dull his promise; John P. Grier and Ipset, speed marvels in the highest sense of the term, and Lanius, a fine Irish horse whose legs have never matched his heart or Jack .Toyner would have won more of the big turf prizes with him. With so many rich events for three-year-olds, both colts and fillies, to be decided at this meeting no attention lias been paid to the Saratoga Handicap pretensions of several smart performers of that age. Included in this list are Grey Lag, Tryster. Prudery and Xancy Lee. Their opportunities will come in the Travers. .Miller. Alabama. Expectation. Huron. Saranac and other features exclusively for their age. The hope is held, however, that the best of the three-year-olds will appear in the Saratoga Cup at a mile and three-quarters, on the closing day of the meeting. Three-year-olds have won the Saratoga Handicap. Purchase himself finishing first in 1!1! with Il pounds up in This was a sparkling performance; and the turf writers of the country exhausted their supply of superlatives in commenting on it. Other three-year-olds to win were Francesco in 1!U1, McCarter in 1107. Affliction in 1!0!, and Cock o the Walk in P.113. ROAMERS SARATOGA HANDICAP FEATS. Among the great horses whose names are enrolled on the list of victors in this event which attracts the country-side, and launches the Saratoga season, that of game little Itoamer is conspicuous, as he won it three times in 101.". 1017. and 1018. Water Boy, winner in 190.:, was a great horse. Olambala the winner in 1010 with 1-8 pounds up has the distinction of carrying more weight than any other successful contender outside of Sir Barton, which shouldered IU0 pounds and fought his way to victory last year in a memorable contest, bearing the silks of the Canadian sportsman Commander J. K. L. Boss. The Saratoga Handicap will not dominate the opening days program, however, as the time-honored Flash Stakes for two-year-olds and the Shillelah Steeplechase are carded for that occasion also. The Flash, which has a value of ,000, was first run for . in 1SW1. when it was won by Francis Morris Remorseless, by Eclipse Last year II. P. AVliit-; neys .Moody, by Broomstick, was first home. Unusual importance attaches to this fine old race this year, as it will introduce to Easterners the phenomenal Kentucky filly Miss Joy, by Peter Quince, which the westerners regard as a marvel. A negro stable boy expressed the sentiment of most Keiitiickians when he said "Miss Joy kin run a quarter in noth-in." Those that Miss Joy must beat in the Flash Stakes in order to uphold her great reputation include Little Chief, My Reverie, Mustard Seed. Oceanic. Native Land. Emotion, Dream of Allah, Ray Jay, Column. My Play, Olympus, Broonistcr and Pillory. Those who saw My Play work a quar-t ter it seconds at Empire City recently believe that this big brother to Man o War is to be a factor in the two-year-old races of the year. He may not be ready for the Flash, but whether he starts or not there are elements in that fine event for a horse race. From present appearances there will be many such fine contests luring the period between Mon-1 day, August 1. and Saturday, August S.l, at the course over whose destinies Richard T. Wilson presides.
