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SARATOGA SPECIAL LURE ♦ Sportsmanlike Character of Race Adds to Its Popularity. Hunt Tfew Subscribers This Year — Crack Colt, Chance Tlay, Frobablc Rcpre- srntutiif of Log Cabin Stable. • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T.. May 20 — The widening popularity Of the Saratoga Special, is indicated from year to year, by the fresh recruits to its subscription list. Holding steadily old supporters, it always attracts new men and women entering rac- , Ing with ambitious designs. Not to take a Saratoga Special subscription is to confess oneself outside the circle of big racing. The lure of the Special is its sportsmanlike character. It is a sportsmans sweep of »nO. the forfeit ?230. There is no purse or "added i money." The Saratoga Associations only contribution to the owner of the winner is a piece of gold plate. When it became the brightest feature of Saratoga two-year-old racing, some twtnty-five years ago. the Special was a ,000 subscription affair, with a 00 forfeit. The Special is a genuine championship race, at three-quarters. All starters bear scale weight without reference to earlier successes or failures. Only the best compete. ■BW SUBSCRIBERS. The Specials new subscribers, that is subscribers who will be represented in the renewal set for the second Saturday of the coming August, are. Mrs. Margaret Kmerson Baker, Mrs. Katherine Klkins Hitt, W. Aver-ili Harriman, William A. Read. George H. Bull, H. A. Kairbairn. the Hamilton Stable, the Lilane Stable, Thomas H. McCrecry. William Ziegler. Jr.. and the Flamingo Farm, Old subscribers renewing allegiance are, the Jones Brothers, William Woodward, James Butler, Gifford A. Cochran, J. S. Cos-den, Marshall Field, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Kdward Riley Bradley. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords. Frederick Johnson. Patrick F. Joyce, Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Harry F. Sinclair. Lee Rosenberg, Walter J. Salmon, William R. Coe, Charles A. Stoneham, Larry Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney. George D. Widener, Joseph B, Widener, Richard T. Wilson and Kdward F. Simms. Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, who conceals her identity under the racing alias Sagamore Stable, has made an auspicious beginning in Maryland with a string of 2-year-oids, punhasts of last year, which John H. Stotler is training under the management of Harry Mordecai. Rock Man. a son of Trap Rock is one of the stars in Mrs. Bakers stable. The eolt won four races in succession before meeting defeat. Mrs. Baker also thinks highly of Remedy, a son of Apothecary, bred in Kngiand and brought to the Ruction block here last August by the Laurel Park Stud Company. Remedy cost Mrs. Baker ,000. He is a stalwart lG-hander. Mrs. Katherine Klkins Hitt. a daughter of the late United States Sena*or Stephen B. Klkins. and sister of I avis Klkins. who succeeded hi i father at Washington and served two terms, entered racing last season with a string of hom«--bred two-year-olds, products of a stud she has domiciled in Fauquier County, Va. Her nominations for the coming Special will be youngsters of her own raising. George H. Bull is the treasurer of the Saratoga Association, whose cultivated taste has been responsible for many of the eye-soothing landscape effects of Saratoga racings picturesque setting. Mr. Bull has raced some smart horses of various ages in the past. LOG CABIN STABLE STARS. William Averill Harriman, whose sister, Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, and Mrs. R. Penn Smith have taken a lively interest in racing for several years, has done some racing himself. He is racing under the name of Log Cabin Stable and among the horses that will carry his colors are Ladkin, one of the three-year-olds stars of last year, Lucky Play, Blind Play, Resolution. Blissful and Optimist and twenty-odd Nursery Stud youngsters that would have borne the silks of August Belmont, if the first chairman of The Jockey Club had been spared to racing another year. Mr. Harriman bought these horses in February at a cost of about 00.-000. Probably Chance Play, a son of Fair Play and Quelle Chance, will be one of Mr. Harrimans Special nominations. Major Belmont declared last winter that Chance Play was the finest racing prospect he had bred In half a dozen years. Chance Play has won the only two races in which he has started and appears to be of championship caliber. Thomas H. McCre«rys subscription really belongs to young Julius Fleischmann, whose father, for years head of the famous Fleischmann Yeast concern and a former mayor of Cincinnati, died in Florida last winter of a heart attack after participating in a polo game. The first Julius Fleischmann was a sportsman of international reputation and the widest popularity. It is gratifying to racing that his son has inherited his interest in the thoroughbred and proposes to carry on. Too many Americans who win prominence in racing, passing out, leave sons who seek diversion in other fields of sport. William Ziegler. Jr.. has taken up racing after making something of a reputation as a breeder of setter dogs and figuring conspicuously in other departments of sport Mr. Ziegler s interest seemed kw-n last summer. He was one of the big buyers at the Kasig-Tipton Companys Saratoga yearling sales. He spent about 5,000. Lilane S:able is the racing name of William B. Bradley, whose silks the New York-bred horse Sunsini, son of Sun Briar, have borne with high credit through a couple of seasons. Mr. Bradley was one of the strong supporters of the first winters racing at Miami, where Sunsini, Sun Altos. Lilane and other horses carried on handsomely and profitably.
