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SARATOGA TURF NEWS Martingale showed that he is a rare good one in the mud. The Cosden champion was in command of affairs for almost the entire race. His victory should aid in the convalescence of his owner, who has had a slight attack of pneumonia, but is able to be out a short time each day. Martingale is one of a band of yearlings bought at private sale from Arthur B. Hancock and he was figured at ,000 in the deal. He is a strongly muscled colt, with great power in his quarters. He will always be a useful horse because of his mud running qualities. He is not muscled like a stayer, however, and his dam, Lady Irma, a daughter of Sempronius, was not able to win at over three-quarters and she liked five-eighths best of all. The old saying about the outsider in a three-horse race being the dangerous one came true. in the Miller Stakes. Bet Mosie was considered the surest of sure things by his owner, but when Butwell challenged with Sweep By he had nothing left. Sweep By was one of the yearlings bought by S. C. Hildreth in 1920 and he sold him to Walter S. House for ,000. The colt won some races last year and there was a side bet between John E. Madden and House on the respective positions of Surf Rider and the winner of yesterdays race in the Futurity. Neither finished in the money, Bunting winning, with Galantman second and Dream of Allah third. After the promise of seven races Monday it was found that there would only be six, as usual, when the original second race failed to fill. The extra race proved its popularity when there were twenty-one entries received and it will be run in place of the race that failed to fill. It is a five and a half furlong condition dash for two-year-olds. This makes it a card with three races devoted to the two-year-olds. James Fitzsimmons has reported that Playfellow, the four-year-old over which there was a lawsuit between Harry F. Sinclair and James F. Johnson, is back m his old stable and that he will be in the races before long. "And he is not sucking wind," added the astute trainer. Louis F. Marshall came in from Louisville where his band is enjoying a layoff for the summer. He reports that his stake winner. Prince K., is in grand condition, and he has named him for all the rich "stake races to which he is eligible at the three autumn meetings in the Blue Grass State. S. M. Henderson, who is racing a division cf the John E. Madden stable on the Canadian circuit, was an arrival today. His string will get back into action at the next Windsor meeting. Witchlike, a two-year-old filly, by EscoDa Antipathy, in the J. S. Ward stable, diad of pneumonia here Friday night. The filly was on the ailing list since her arrival from Windsor, Ont. The main course was closed to trainers this morning and horses were galloped over the Oklahoma track, with the exception of the Whitney string, which was exercised at Horse Haven. Pete Coyne, for eighteen years trainer for George J. Long, but now in charge of a public training stable, came from Louisville to attend the yearling sales. His horses are resting for the summer. Jockey J. Metcalf departed for Windsor today to rejoin the J. H. Louchheim Stable. Mose Lowenstein was an arrival from Canada. His horses also are resting at Windsor. Robert L. Gerrys Rectortown broke his leg- in his last race and it was found necessary to destroy him.
