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I . i f i ; R. T. WILSONS MISFORTUNE » Saratogas President Hard Hit When Wilderness Goes Lame. ♦ ■ Stnyvesant Handicap and Youthful Stakes Outstanding Features of This Weeks Jamaica Racing. • NEW YORK, N. Y., May 14.— The element of uncertainty in racing is one of its great-1 est fascinations. For the man whose horses are in bad form, or suffering from the accidents incidental to training, there is always a brighter tomorrow. Last year Fortunes favorite on the turf was Richard T. Wilson, president of the Sara-! toga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses. He won both the Belmont and Preakness Stakes with Pillory, admittedly not the best three-year-old in training, but a sterling performer withal ; one that gave up the best he had every time of asking. This spring the fickle jade has frowned on the Wilson establishment. Wilderness, the best three-year-old in the stable, and considered by competent experts capable of winning the Preakness, has gone lame and will be unable to fill his engagements for either that race or the Kentucky Derby, though hopes are entertained that he will recover in time to go to the post in the Belmont Stakes, the third in the sequence of 0,000 prizes. That the Wilson stable has in Tall Timber a colt of quality is fortunate, though he is not a good performer over a long route as Wilderness, whese breeding and action would warrant the belief that he can run as far as horses are asked to go in this country. Last spring the bad luck attached to the three-year-old division seemed to be centered on the Bancocas, Lexington and Whitney establishments. Kai-Sang was taken sick at a critical time for his stable, an attack of influenza compelling the retirement of the stout son of The Finn just before the running of the Preakness. It was the same in the case of Lucky Hour, save that the banishment of that fine horse was due to a kick by a stable companion that crushed the frontal wall of the head and kept him out of training until the summer campaign was almost over. Bunting fell a victim to the influenza almost on the eve of the Derby. KAI-SAXG AND LUCKY HOUR. There is no disputing the supremacy of Kai-Sang and Lucky Hour in the three-year-old division of 1922. The showing of Kai-Saing in the Kcalization, for which race he was a trifle lame, and the late autumn campaign of Lucky Hour, proved their superiority to the other three-year-olds. The defeat of a horse like Paragon, winner of some of the best English handicaps, at equal weights by Lucky Hour was one of the outstanding performances of the year. The Jamaica meeting will continue to draw big crowds to its close, as there is much to attract the public in the final days of the period. The sport to date has been of the highest quality and the increased patronage Continued on twelfth page. i i j . i 9 1 t • B l 1 - r, . t x t i R. T. WILSONS MISFORTUNE Continued from first page. over former years shows the appreciation of the public, which seems to be as eager for racing as at any time in the last generation. For the present week there are several important features to be decided, and one of them, the Stuyvesant Handicap of ¥6,000, at a mile, for three-year-olds, ought to be worth going a long way to see. It is on the card for Thursday and has among its eligibles the flying Zev, Rialto, one of the most talked of candidates for the big three-year-old stakes ; Messenger, fleet of foot and bred to stay all day, and whose worth will be demonstrated amply before the year ends ; Bud Lerner, a game and consistent son of The Finn ; Tall Timber, one of the fastest horses in training ; How Fair, the equal of any three-year-old filly out this year; Goshawk, a wonderfully speedy colt ; Martingale and Dulin, the hopes of the Ccsden stable in the thee-year-old division : Barbary Bush, which will carry the colors of the Greentree Stable ; Cyclops, the sway-backed son of Heno, whose speed is unquestioned ; Runelise. the licet sister of Morvich, and a lot of other promising mate-s rial. Man o War, Purchase and Snob II. are former winners of the Stuyvesant. On Saturday. May 19, the ,000 Youthful Stakes, the richest two-year-old race of the nu-eting. at live and one-half furlongs, and the ,500 Long Beach Handicap, for three-year-olds and over at a mile and a sixteenth, will be decided. In the former the best of our .juveniles to the number of 104 are engaged. Half a dozen owners think they have the winner of the Youthful in their stable. Last years winner was Bud Lerner and the manner in which he ran was an influence in his sale by John H. Maiden to the Rancocas Stable. It was in the Youthful Stakes of 1919 that Man o War gave a touch of his lashing quality. Among the eligibles for the Long Beach are Grey Lag. Lucky Hour. Trys-ter. Bunting, Blazes, Snob II., Exodus. Best Pal. Ria.to, Captain Alcock, Thunderclap. Mad Hatter, Zev, Brainstorm, Chickvale, Enchantment and a host of other good ones. Ilfl cannot fail to be a good race. I
