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WESTERNERS AT SARATOGA Stables Likeiy to Clash Worthily With Their Eastern Rivals. Firebrand, Lady Madcap, Distinction, Bonges and Others Are Among Horses Expected. SARATOGA. SPRINGS. N. T., July IS. Edward R. Bradley, proprietor of the Idle Hour Stud, which has recently sent the Kentucky Derby winner Behave Yourself to American racing, also Best Pal, Black Servant, Blind Baggage, By Gosh, Bit of White an .1 some two score other horses of high class, is represented more heavily than any other westerner in the stakes that will be decided lvrc in the course of the August race meeting of the Saratoga Association. This year, as in the past, the Saratoga ram course, easily the most beautiful in its landscape aspects, as well as the finest piece of engineering cf its kind of the continent, will be the meeting ground of the thoroughbreds of the strongest eastern and western stables and because of its truly national character the racing here will attract sportsmen and sport lovers from ail over the continent. With the runners of the Bradley stable will come the trans-Appalachian establishments of Montfort .Tones, one of oils recent contributions to the sport cf kings, now the ownr of one of the most considerable strings of thoroughbreds to be found anywhere ; II. II. Hewitt, who is having brilliant success with horses of his own breeding ; Frank .T. Kelly of Chicago, .!efftrsrn Livingston, Charles K. Rowe. Thomas Clay McDowell, Desha Breckinridge, C. V. Clark of Montana, W. V. Thraves, J. S. Ward, Hal Price Ileadley, Charles II. Berryman. George J. Long, etc. BRADLEYS YOUNG HORSES. Mr. Bradleys racing here will be done mainly by two-year-olds, sons and daughters of his stallions North Star HI., sire of Od Man, Bet Ivlosie, Busy American and a half d-zen other winners of the last few years, and Black Tony, sire of Black Rascal, Black Servant, etc. Mr. Bradley has had abominable luck with the horses of the older division of his big stable. Busy American, after beating Bet Mosie and some others in a renewal of the Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington, broke down so badly In the running of the Kentucky, Derby, in which he was backed heavily to beat the brilliant Morvieh, he had to be sent to Idle Hour Farm. Black Servant also went. Best Pal, a fast and courageous son of Helmet, with which Mr. Bradley has won many races of high value here and in the West, is no longer in the Idle Hour Stable. Best Pal won his last race under the silks of H. J. Thompson. He is eligible to start in the Saratoga Handicap, the Cup and a half dozen other good races for horses three-year-olds anil over. Probably Mr. Thompson will bring him here. Bet Mosie, a son of North Star III., which finished second in the Kentucky Derby renewal, is the three-year-old hope of the Bradley stable. Bet Mosie gave unmistakable promise last year of making a-. Jong-distance running thrcc-year-oid and he has not disappointed this year. He is in the Travers, Kenner, Huron and other races for three-year-olds exclusively, also the Sartoga Handicap and the Saratoga Cup. By Gosh, a son of Black Tony and Acutissima and another three-year-old of high speed from Idle Hour is in all of these races with Bet Mosie. CHATTERTON KELLEYS ACE. The three-year-old star of the Kelley stable is Chatterton ; the best horse of the older division is Gangway. Chatterton, a son of Fair Play and Chit Chat, has developed into one of the fastest colts of the West. Mr. Kelley expects him to show well in the three-year-old stakes here, but he is not in the Saratoga Cup. Gangway, the c:i;:didate of the Kelley stable for th handicaps for horses three years old and over, is a son of Luko McLuke and Little Oasis. The best two-year-old of the outfit is Skeezix, a son of Sweep and Margaret C, which has won three purses for himself. Mr. Hewitt, for many years one of the most successful breeders of the country, will bring a formidable three-year-old filly this way in Startle, a daughter of Star Hawk and Inspiration and the winner at Louisville in May of a renewal of the 0,000 Kentucky Oaks. Startle was beaten the other day in the Latonia Oaks renewal by Margaret Win-so r, but she herself beat Prudish, the Coaching Club American Oaks winner. The winnei last fall at Louisville of the 5,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes renewal, a race of one mile for two-year-olds. Startle is still regarded, notwithstanding, her defeat by Margaret Winsor, as the best three-year-old filly uf the West. Her important engagements are in the three-year-old specials of the coming meeting. Also she i3 in the Saratoga Cup. She will have had a rest before she tackles the Easts best three-year-old fillies in the Alabama, and really it seems she Continued on twelfth page.. WESTERNERS AT SARATOGA Continued from first page. imahl have a little something on the best of them. Mr. Hewitt has formidable two-ycar-olda 0 In Metric, a son of Short Grass and Star 1 Mask ; Kindred, a daughter of Jack Atkin a and Sister; Easter Bells, a son of Black 1 Tony and Mission Bell, and Avisack, a daughter of Jack Atkin and Avis. The winning r post test is the ultimate test of thoroughbred c efficiency and these youngsters h have all answered it. Mr. Hewitt has a win-i ing four -y-iar-old in Advocate, a son of Ballet and Inspiration and a half brother of Startle. Montfort Jones splendid two-year-cld filly c cf last year. Miss Joy, which celebrated her first f appearance at Saratoga by defeating 1 the dangerous Kai-Sang in a renewal of the J Fiash Stakes, has not come through this . 3 year. But Mr. Jones has veteran campaigners of sterling merit for Saratoga racing in High 1 Cloud, Billy Star, Fair Phantom. Rouleau 1 and two-year-clds that have demonstrated f their speed by winning in Miss Meise, Miss Minerva, Shamrock, Full Spoon, Belzcni, ; Miss Cerina and Old Top. Mr. Jones paid 5 5,000 for High Cloud, a brilliant sprinter : by . Ultimu3, while the horses were racing at J Louisville. The seller of High Cloud was Jchn Lowe, his developer. The stars of the Desha Breckinridge stable i and Lady Madcap, a daughter of Dick Fin-ncll 1 and Affable, and the winner at Latonia of . the Inaugural Handicap ; Naughty Nisba, , : a daughter of The Manager and Daisy Pratt; Bracdalbane, a son of Jack Atkin and Princess Pat. Mr. Breckinridge, the publisher of 1 the Lexington Herald, is a son cf the late W. C. P. Breckinridge, cne of Kentuckys forensic stars of a generation back. Mr. Breckinridge has gone in for racing on a more extensive scale this year than ho ever 1 did before. Jefferson Livingston will bring on Firebrand, hero of the recent renewals of tho Independence and Daniel Boone Handicaps, and J. S. Wards Dcnges, the son of Celt that won the Cincinnati Trophy and other stakes decided in the course of the Churchill Downs and Latonia meetings. Donges is generally conceded to be one of the best two-year-old developments of Kentucky spring racing. Mr. Keadlcy, the proprietor I of the Beaumont Stud," and one of the most fiuceessful producers in the country, will race ; j a string of homebred youngsters, and Mr. i Berryman, a breeder of note on his own ! account Mr. Berryman owns the sterling j j stallion Ballot also the manager of the Ken-j tuclcy breeding enterprise of Harry Payne j Whitney, will race several youngsters of ni; i own breeding. Miss Jemima is still Charles Rowes ace. J
