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1 ■ ! I i 1 | ■ , • 1 , ; SARATOGA JUMPING STAKES Four Cross -Country Events to Be Run Next August Close May 28 — Record Entries Expected. NEW YORK. N. Y., May 3— Lovers of cross-country sport will find their favorite pastime occupying a promnent place on the program of the Saratoga Association, which announces the closing of entries on May 28 of four stakes to be run during the August meeting. The chief of these tests through the field is the Saratoga Steeplechase Handicap at about two and one half miles. It is for four-year-olds and over and carries an added value of ,000. Some of the best crosscountry horses ever seen in the Lnited States and Canada have taken part in the Saratoga Steeplechase, and the presence of a number of jumpers from abroad is certain to make the event more interesting and representative than on any previous period in its history. The introduction of this foreign element has be -n a stimulant, and the cause of crosscountry sport has received an impetus that should place it on its proper plane as a test of thoroughbred quality. Saratoga is the meeting where three-year-olds have their first trials through the field and in making three of-their stakes open to three-year-olds and over the Saratoga man-1 agement is acting wisely. It will be interesting to note the caliber of the novices that have been recruitted by the newcomers to the sport as well u the more seasoned patrons of steeplechasing whose judgment of type has been ripened by experience The stakes in question each have an added | value of vi,000, and are to be run over the "about two miles" course. They are the I North American Steeplechase Handicap, the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap and the Shillelah Steeplechase Handicap. Uacmg seo- retary Karlocker looks for a generous entry to each of them as well as to the Saratoga j Steeplechase Handicap, which will be the high light of the meeting for the jumpers of I this country and Canada, 1 *
