view raw text
SARATOGA LIVE NEWS NOTES FROM WORLDS FAMOUS TRACK While it was expected that "Buddy" Ensor would be restored to good standing before this time and it was expected that favorabie action would be taken on his application at the Thursday meeting, it is virtually assured that he will be back in the saddle before many days. Ensor was punished for incorrigibility and in his long suspension he has been taking good care of himself and has mended his ways until it is known there is a strong sentiment in favor of his reinstatement. He has been keeping fit galloping t.ie Cosden horses in the morning and, when his license is restored, he will be ready to ride in his best form. Virginians are crowing over the fact that both last year and this the highest priced yearlings of the sales have been products of Virginia, and the high average has gone to the same state over Kentucky, with all its bread acres of blue grass. J. S. Cosden bought the highest priced one last year. Cyclone, the son of Sweep and Ballet Girl, and accordingly a brother to The Forter. lie paid ?21,000 for him. This season he took the son of Trap Rock and Federal Girl for 9,000, which is thus far the top figure that has been bid at any auction of the meeting. A. E. Hundley has thirteen fine yearlings from his Monietta Stud that he has bsen showing in the sales paddock every day before the races. This consignment is the first full crop from the young Ben Brush stallion Everest, and ho had ample opportunity in tile richly bred mares with which he has been mated. In 1920 Monietta Stud sent Bigheart, Nancy F., Caretaker and Pepper Tea to the sales ring and in 1921 Bo McMillan and Billy Gibson were among those produced. Conditions for the racing for the six days from August IS to August 24 have been issued. It is a program that calls for six races a day and there are four steeplechases in that period. The oniy days on whlcn there will be no race through the field are Tuesday. August 22. and Thursday, Aug.:3t 24. Jockey Lawrence Lyke returned to the saddle today after an absence of a monch. A disagreement with S. P. Harlan, trainer lor the Greentree Stable, to which Lyke is under engagement, was responsible for his vacation. Max Lindenbaum of Louisville, Ky., joined the Blue Grass delegation here today. Former jockey Herbert Sumter was stricken with paralysis Thursday night and has been removed to the Saratoga Hospital, where he is in a critical condition. He was formerly employed by the late Schuyler Parsons and Ral Parr and more recently was agent for J. B. Nash. Sam Louis added to his stable by buying LEffare, or rather, through claiming the French bred gelding, after he had won the opener. He cost ,205 ana from the way he ran is well worth the money. Bud Fisher today purchased the yearling by Omar Khayyam Honey Bee from A. B. Hancock. This youngster is a half-brother to the good two-year-old Cartoonist, now in the Fisher establishment. For the first time in many days it was found necessarw to sprinkle the track before the races and the return to firm footing was a welcome one. "Jimmy" Boden saddled his first winner of the meeting when he sent LEffare to the post for F. W. Morris in the opening three-quarters dash. The horses of Montfort Jones will be shipped to Churchill Downs August 2G, according to present plans.
