view raw text
LATEST GOSSIP FROM SARATOGA L. A. Cassidy of the Maryland State Fair was an arrival in the interest of the stakes to be run at Laurel during the October meeting. These stakes close Thursday and comprise a remarkable list of offerings. There are twenty-three days of racing and during that term of sport there will be 00,000 added money in stakes and purses. The richest stake race is the Washington Handicap with 5,000 added. It will have its first running on October 28, the last day of the meeting. and is at a mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds. Coming as it does so late in the year, it is designed to settle the question of three-year-old supremacy. Lafe Block was presented with the key of the lake by the Mayor of Ballston, and impromptu program of rowing, swimming, fishing and eating contests were held during the afternoon. Sergeant Mortimer Murphy carried off one of the prizes and other prize winners were Frank Flannery and Henry Laturman, while Lafe Block himself was home in front in another, and it was not rowing, swimming or fishing. Ed Heffner will train the .horses that will race under the silks of E. F, Cooley. Athel-stan has been obtained from the Sanford Stud Farm and other purchases will be made. Guy Fisher, some years back, was one of the stars raced under the Cooney silks. Heffner trained Guy Fisher and also trained for H. C. Hallenbeck when The Finn was in the notable string raced by thkt sportsman. Cartoonist excited a lot of favorable comment in the paddock. He is a smashing big colt and a well made one in the bargain. Cherry Pie came with a taking rush at the finish and was running faster than anything in the race at the end. He will be ready for the Hopeful Stakes on the closing day of the meeting. The Hopeful, by the way, may be worth nearly 5,000 this year to the winner. Cartoonist, winner of the Adirondack Handicap today, will fill his engagement in the Hopeful Stakes on the last day of the meeting and then be sent to Louisville, Ky., to race in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes to be run on September 9, according to trainer Alexander B. Gordon. This son of Celt Honeybee was purchased out of the A.-B. Hancock consignment at the Fasig-Tipton sales last year for ,500. Albert C. Bostwick, who iii a nephew of F. Ambrose Clark, began his racing career most auspiciously when ha won the second race with the good-looking gelding Fairwaj. which he bought from Thomas Clyde recently with the intention of sending him through the field. James Healey, who trains for Mr. Bostwick, is one of the best of tha young horsemen of the day. When Flannel Shirt won the second race today it marked the first time this year that the C. A. Stoneham colors were carried to victory. His stable has been represented in fewer races than usual this year, mcst of its members being on the ailing list the greater part of the time. G. R. Allen, owner of Mulciber, winner of the 0,000 Coffroth Handicap at Tijuana, is an arrival from Lexington, having come on to attend the yearling sales. He contemplates some purchases for the early racing at the Mexican track. Special trains will be run to accommodate the throng which will want to see the Special. Mr. Wilson is making arrangements which will guarantee the safety and comfort of all who care to visit the, course on thai occasion. . . . John E. Madden -today traded the brood mare Lady Desmond, which he purchased last night at the Canterbury. Farm dispersal sale, to Willis Sharpe Kilmer for the-eight-year-old mare Sunday School, by Sundridge. There was a change in the equipment of both Crochet in the first race and Cherry Pie in the Adirondack Handicap, when each was raced without the help of blinkers. George Rickard and Ward White entertained a number of horsemen Sunday with a clam bake at Mr. Richards Camp Helion on Ballston Lake. W. L. Oliver has leased the services of the apprentice jockey Leo Simons to Roger Min-ton for the racing season at Havana the coming winter. Sam H. Harris deserted Broadway long enough to come up and look the racing over for a few days. J. McGrane was a visitor from Aqueduct today. He plans to stick the meeting out.
