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Here and There on the Turf United Hunts Racing. A Remarkable Season. The Bowie Meeting. A Promising Juvenile. After the racing is all over at James Butlers track with the running of the program at the course on the hill this afternoon there is- still a bit of sport left for the New Yorkers who will stay at home. This will be the two-day meeting that is to be conducted by the United Hunts Racing Association at Belmont Park. This will be offered Saturday and the following Tuesday. When the United Hunts Racing Association was first formed its programs were confined almost entirely to sport for the amateurs and there was, naturally, a predominance of steeple-chasing. In the history of the association there has been many a delightful meeting, but it has rapidly outgrown its original intention and it was found necessary to open the way for some of the professionals as well as the amateurs. It still retains all the opportunities that the amateur sportsmen may desire, but the way has been opened for the horses that perform over the big tracks, as well as the jockeys that ride over the big tracks. The program for the racing this fall is a particularly attractive one and the entries that have been received hold forth great promise. John Mclntee Bowman, president of the United Hunts Racing Association, has been untiring in his efforts on behalf of this sport and his efforts have been crowned with satisfying success. With favorable weather and track conditions for Saturday it is assured that the meeting at Belmont Park will bring together both a large and representative gathering of tportsmen. The big racing season that conies to a close with the termination of the meeting of the Empire City Racing Association will be always remembered in American turf annals. It marked the first running of an international match when Zev so easily took the measure pf Papj-rus, winner of the Epsom Derby, and It is to be hoped that this international race is only the forerunner of many more matches that will come with closer relationship between the sportsmen and the horses of all countries. Racing never was in a more healthy condition than obtains at this time and these international meetings are sure to make for a still greater era of prosperity. Joseph McLennan has issued a particularly attractive book for the racing at Bowie and, as usual, it contains a goodly number of racea over worth-while distances. This has been notable of the McLennan books and while he frequently does not have horses of as good a quality as do some of the other racing secretaries, he obtains excellent results. Of late years Bowie has been bringing together better horses and McLennan has kept up his system of as many long races as possible, with satisfying success. As spectacles, the races of a mile or greater distances wijlalwavsJbc tremendously popujar with the crowd and they always furnish a bet? ter contest. They mean more in the general scheme of improving the breed of horses and they make greater demands on the skill of the 1 trainer. Almost anyone is capable of training a horse to race five and a half furlongs and almost any horse is capable of running such a distance with scant training. But it is altogether a different proposition to . fit a horse for a race of a mile and a quarter. Then, over the longer distance, there comes jockey ability that is not found in the trivial dashes. These dashes do not require anything of the jockey other than an ability to leave the post running fast. That is an exceedingly necessary part of the education of a jockey, but he must have something else if ever he expects to make his way in the saddle. All together the- McLennan program scheme is one that is to be commended to all thVrac-.; ing associations. Edward B. McLean has a juvenile that has come to hand late in the season that may have plently to say among the good three-year-olds of next year. This fellow is Horgan, a bay son of Troutbeck Apparition, by Sweeper, and bred by Edward Cebrian. He cost ,100 at the Saratoga sales and at this time gives every promise of being a bargain. Horgan has only started twice and on the first occasion it was only lack of racing education that brought about his defeat. Saturday at Latonia he was a winner and he made a show of his opponents. There was nothing much back of the son of Troutbeck on this occasion,, but his victory was one that left no doubt of his good, class. He has frequently impressed in his private work as an individual that has quality stamped all over him. " There are high hopes for him next year anil it is probable even that at this late time he will come to a measure of greatness before he is sent into winter quarters. Max Hirsch has decided to finish out his season in Maryland and he is shaping his course to take in the Bowie meeting after he fills his engagements at Pimlico. There is one good chance for Sarazen at that meeting in the Endurance Handicap, at a mile, for two-year-olds. This race has an added money value of ,500 and Sarazen has shown, that the Bowie going should be easy for him to race over successfully. Horsesafind peculiarly slow footing at that course, but Sarazen has been tried out over all kinds of tracks and they all appear to look alike to him. In that he differs greatly from Happy Thoughts. It was apparent in her special with Mrs. Vanderbilts great gelding at Laurel last week that the dead going was a decided handicap This filly had been tried through the mud before she was sent out to meet Sarazen, but when it came to the race she was woefully lacking in the speed that has marked all of her other races.
