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LATEST GOSSIP FROM SARATOGA Fred Rehberger, secretary of the Queens County Jockey Club, has received the books for the meeting at Aqueduct from September 18 to September 30. For the opening day there is a surplus of 30.31 to be added to the overnight purses. While the steeplechas-ing did not amount to much during the Saratoga meeting, there will be an effort to awaken interest at Aqueduct. There are eight cross-country races carded for the twelve days of racing. These include the Bushwick Handicap, with ,000 added, and the Queensboro, another handicap to which ,500 is added. The overnight races are of ,000 and ,200 value. This coming fall there will be run for the first time a new three-year-old handicap of a mile and a sixteenth, known as the New Rochelle. This has attracted all of the top-notch three-year-olds and Mr. Schaumburg has suggested that its running might lead to a real test for the best eastern .three-year-olds being added to the attractions later in the meeting. S. C. Hildreth tonight shipped most of the horses of the Rancocas Stable back to Belmont Park, keeping Zev, Coeur de Lion, Bud Lerner and his star three-year-old, Kai-Sang, . 1 here. The two-year-olds are engaged for the remaining days of the meeting and Kai-Sang will be on hand in the hope that there may be employment for him before the end of the meeting. A cheering sign in the entries that have been received for the stakes to be run at Empire City is that the races for the older divisions have filled better than they did last year. This would indicate that there will be no trouble about filling entertaining programs without depending on the two-year-olds. State Senator John J. Dunnigan of the Bronx and Lieutenant Thomas McManus are late arrivals from New York. Senator Dunnigan is accompanied by his family and will remain for the month of September in. their Union avenue cottage. The Gifford A. Cochran horses will be shipped to Belmont Park Wednesday night and the present plan is to leave the recent purchase, Goshawk, behind to fill his engagement in the Hopeful Stakes, should the track be fast. D. R. McDaniel will ship his horses to Aqueduct Wednesday and promised to take a lively part in the fall racing about New York.
