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BIG STAKE RACES AT HAND Miss Joy to Show Her Speed in the Flash Stakes. I ! Small but Select Saratoga Handicap Field Track Probably to Be at Its Fastest. SAKTOGA, X. Y.. July 30. AVith am unsurpassed setting for an opening forty-eight hours henee, Americas foremost racin;; ground only requires the opening of its numerous gates to start off its 1021 period of racing, :i period, albeit, that will only embrace twenty-seven days of actual racing, rich in promise that it will at least equal in brilliancy any former meeting. Prospects are that a majority of tlics; who contributed to make Saratoga meetings notable in the past -will again be here. The newcomers are increasing steadily and tomorrow will find practically all roads filled leading into Saratoga. The. advance guard consists chiefly of visitors from afar. Additions to their ranks were plentiful during the day. The heavy rain cf yesterday was beneficial, and while the course today still held traces of the heavy downpour, it will drain speedily and. unless more rain falls, which at present appears improbable, the going for the opening day will be lightning fast. Considering that a car shortage has prevented some owners from shipping here in time for the opening, the card for opening day is fairly satisfactory with the three annual features, the Shillelah Steeplechase Handicap, the Flash Stakes for two-year-olds, and the Surutoga Handicap, absorbing attention. In 1he matter of outstanding features, the Saratoga Handicap heads the bill, for, in addition to its monetary consideration, it brings to the post five of the best racers of the day and should be productive of a splendid coutest. The Flash Stakes has fourteen starters carded, eight of these representing four interests. The western filly Miss Joy. which has been the cynosure of attention from owners and trainers since lier arrival from Lutouia, is among them, and her performance will be an object of close scrutiny by the critics. The field as a whole is representative of the best in the East and if she achieves n triumph, which her connections and those who have seen her in her races expect, there will be ninny ready to proclaim her as the best of her age. Six have been named for the Shiilelah Steeplechase and at the weight a spectacular and ckxely fought contest is expected. Yellow Hand. . A. Stout-hams candidate for the Saratoga Handicap, to be run Monday, showed an excellent performance when he worked one and a quarter, the distance of the race, in 2:llJf. in the deep mud this morning. He was eased up somewhat after covering the mile in 1:42. MANY ARRIVALS FROM EMPIRE CITY, The remains of private Frank .1. Cant well, at one time well known as a stcplechase jockey, and who was connected with John Sanford and It. T. "Wilsons stable, arrived from France yesterday, and were taken to Hoosic Falls, where they were interred today. Cantwcll was killed in action October 117. 1918. He enlisted in the army from Saratoga early in the spring of 191S. Jockeys Ted Rice and C. II. Miller came in from Kinpirc City. Six express carloads of horses got in from the Yonkers track this morning. It required two cars to transport the Qnincy Stables outfit; the same number for S. A. Clopton, who brought the remainder of the Harry Payne "Whitney establishment up, and A. O. l.Iakely. The other car was filled with one and two horse stables. Mont fort Jones came in today from "Washington and his brother. I!. P... who is associated with him in the ownership of the horses here iu charge of trainer J. C. Milam, is due tomorrow. Jockey T. Nolan, who sustained a broken collar bone in a fall at the Latonia meeting, has completely recovered and will resume riding here. Now that "William McDaniel has been named to relieve him of his duties. George II. Strate plans an early departure for Kentucky with six of the J. H. Rossetcr brood mares, which he recently received from his employers "Wickiup ranch in California. Fourteen other mares belonging to Hossetcr are already in the IHue Grass state. Strate will confine his operations in the future to the farm instead of the race track. Jockey Albert Johnson, who underwent an operation several weeks ago, has sufficiently recovered to enable him to ride again. Hildreth is going along steadily with Inchcape and there is some reason to hope that the crock colt will stand up to his training and be a starter during the meeting. Audacious, which is scheduled to carry the Foreign Stables colors in the Saratoga Handicap, unseated his rider when he was brought on the track for a work-out this morning and ran away three and a half miles before he was caught. He did not injure himself. Trainer Sandy McNaughton is of the opinion that his escapade did not bother him any. The redoubtable Purchase is again giving Sam C. Hildreth concern on account of leg trouble. The lameness he is now manifesting is not his old-time infirmity, being in his bind leg, formerly considered sound as a bell.
