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SARATOGA RACING AT HAND L- - . Rainfall Expected to Improve the Going by Monday. Horses, Owners and Riders Arriving Report Whitney Has Two Great Two-Year-Olds. SARATOGA. X. V., July 2!. Surprise was expressed by the advance guard iu the habit of making a pilgrimage here annually that a lack of racing folks present is manifest, considering the near approach of the opening here. Some regard this as an augury that the coming attendance will not approach the magnitude of that of the 1010-1920 meetings and the pessimistic are also harping on country-wide business depression as likely to contribute toward a lessening of the glamour that has heretofore attended the racing and proved a magnet to bring here people from all parts of the American continent. The optimist fails to detect any signs that would indicate there would be any deviation from the former patronage and looks for the same brilliancy and gaiety at this meeting as that which has been a feature before. Many explain the present absence of turf people to the fact that the racing at Empire City ami Devonshire is keeping the horsemen at those places until Saturday, as the Sunday following will afford ample time for the intended comers here to be on hand iu time for the opening of Monday. There is expected quite a big delegation of westerners who arc .stopplng-off at Windsor to-witness the decision of the Devonshire International 0,000 race, which will have among its starters the crack three-year-olds Grey Lag and Hlack Servant. Reservations on boats and trains for the next three days are unusually heavy, with an extra boat being forced into service to relieve the congestion, and a special train will also be pressed into action. The hotel managements report hotel reservations are being liooked steadily, but there is still considerable space to be had in the leading hostelries. Cool weather was the rule today, the first respite from intense heat in over a week. A heavy storm reached this section anil rain continued unabated for hours. At one time the downfall was so copious as to be almost a deluge. The rain was badly needed and freshened the verdure instantly. The Oklahoma training track, as well as the main course, benefited vastly by the rain. MISS JOY PKIDE OF THE WEST. Westerners are confident that in Miss Joy they will have the means by which to achieve two-year-old supremacy, but a few usually well posted, while conceding Miss Joy to be a superior filly, hold out belief that she will be beaten and her conqueror will not necessarily have to be the unbeaten Mor-vich or the brilliant llunstar. Astute trainer James Rowe is said to have a pair of youngsters under iviver that can outwork their shadows and have already worked preliminary trials in better than 22 seconds for a quarter of a mile. Whiskaway. brother to the erratic Flags, is one of the colts that has been working brilliantly. The one. however, that much mystery surrounds is a chestnut filly of fine type that so far the dockers have been unable to learn the name of. Former jockey W. Knapp, who was granted a tr -leers license at the recent meeting of the Jockey Club, has taken over the horses that will race iu the silks of W. S. Kilmer, succeeding William Me-Daniel, who resigued last Sunday. McDaniel has been engaged to train the extensive band owned by J. II. Rosseter. which will race here. George Strate. who was iu charge of the horses in training, will now have time to devote exclusively to the Rosseter thoroughbred breeding establishment and will soon take a band of brood mares to Kentucky, where they will be kept permanently. Jockey Mack Garner, who is under contract to Montfort Jones for the local meeting, returned last night from Latonia. Another addition to the riding colony was jockey C. Robinson, who came in from Empire City Saturday. T. J. Pendcrgast of Kansas City, whose horses are here in charge of trainer J. C. Calm, was another arrival. The stables of C. A. Stoneham, W. H. Rowe, Fred Iiurlew and the first division of the Xalapa Farm horses, in charge of James W. McClelland, came in from Empire City today. Included in the Hurlew consignment was the unbeaten two-year-old Morvich. Seven carloads of yearlings, the property of Kentucky breeders, arrived last night. Among them were seven youngsters consigned to Walter M. Jeffords, which wiil not be sold, two for George W. Loft and one for Tom Shaw. The purses on the opening day of tin? local meeting include surplus bids of ,550, which the association received during the last two days of the meeting of 1020. This will give the three overnight races a value of ,21j.ti7 each.
