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I SARATOGA I LIVE NEWS NOTES FROM WORLDS FAMOUS TRACK L. A. Price has expressed himself as well pleased with the two yearlings he obtained at the Fasig-Tipton sales. These are a handsome bay colt, by McGee Lithia, b Ingoldsby, and another bay by The Manager Winifred A., the mare that raced so well under the silks of Frederick Johnson. Both colts are of excellent size and particularly symmetrical. They will be trained by W. L. Oliver, and will winter at his Lakewood Place with the two-year-old Primus that. Oliver is training for the same sportsman. Mr. Price has expressed the intention of making other purchases, and he will come to the races next year with a pretentious stable. G. R. Allen is in Saratoga in the interests of jockey G. Yeargin, who. was suspended here a year ago for an unsatisfactory ride on Leatherface. In that race Leatherface fell lame so badly that he has not since been able to race. He was recently purchased by J. B. Choate for 00 in the hope that he may be patched up to make a hunter. Bud Fishers Avalanche was raced with blinkers added to his equipment in the first race, and it may have helped him into third place at the finish. Ralco wore blinkers in the Catskill Stakes, but they did not bring him into a paying position. Then in the last race Tom Welch tried Joseph E. Wide-ners Hell Gate without blinkers. Jockey Mack Garner left for his home in Covington, Ky., immediately after winning the first race with Childs Play today. Montfort Jones has taken second call on his services for the Kentucky autumn campaign. Sam Lewis bid Childs Play up from her entered price of ,500 to ,205, at which figure she was bought in by J. C. Milam. J. I. Smith will leave for Louisville tomorrow with nine horses he has. here for H. H. Hewitt. He will take up four others when he reaches Kentucky, and it is the intention to race at New. Orleans for the first time during the coming winter. That campaign will continue until the breeding season comes. Milam left for Lexington tonight and his horses go to Louisville tomorrow morning. He will send Rockminister, from the Montfort Jones establishment, along with his own horses. Samuel D. Riddle shipped six yearlings to his farm at Berlin, Md. They were recent purchases at the Fasig-Tipton sales here. Jockey Butwell was forced to cancel his mounts today by reason of a crushed finger that he caught in an automobile door. Letterman has been added to the jumping division of the Greentree Stable and is in the care fo "Vincent Powers.
