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EPINARD A QUICK STARTER Sets All Doubt at Rest as to Ability to Leave Barrier Quickly. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 15. It became known today that the yearling filly by Prince Palatine Quixota, by McGee, for which C. B. Shafer paid 0,000 at the Xalapa Farm stable Thursday night, would be put in training. Tom Young, son of the late Colonel Milton Young, who acted as bidder for Mr. Shafer, stated that the filly would be shipped to Lexington to be broken and trained by him. The books of Man o War and Stefan the Great are practically full for next year, the result of an agreement between Messrs. Riddle and Widener, who will exchange services. Among the mares that Mr. Widener will breed to Man o War is the matron Reine Des Peches, a half sister to his own stallion Stefan the Great. Their dam is Perfect Peach, whose picture shows that she was well named. Reine Des Peches is a beauty herself and cost her owner 0,000 at public auction in England two years ago. American Flag is out of a daughter of Roi Herode, the sire of The Tetrarch, which sired Reine Des Peches. Some doubt has been expressed as to Epi-nards ability to leave the barrier quickly and in time to keep within striking distance of some of our American sprinters, many of whom are noted for leaving the barrier quickly. Epinard answered the question, yesterday morning when he was sent to the seven-eighths starting point by Eugene Leigh, in company with Satin Slippers, the two-year-old filly which was his traveling companion on .the Berengaria. When Roy Dickenson, who was doing the schooling, called "Come on," Epinard left the barrier like a whippet released from the leash. In a few strides he had left Satin Slippers and when Haynes gave liim his head he showed the onlookers some of the speed that has made him famous. He was only permitted lo go a quarter of a mile, but this distance was covered in close to 24 seconds with the greatest ease. The horse continues to draw crowds in the morning and the rails of the course were lined this morning when the chestnut speed marvel from France first appeared with Everett Haynes in the saddle. There were many horsemen in the crowd who had come from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Boston and other points for the week-end of sport. They were anxious to know which horse in the cavalcade that was constantly passing was Epinard.
