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POINT MATE FOR THE CLASSIC American Derby Winner to Be Prepared for Another Meeting With Twenty Grand. Albert C Bostwick, steward of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, who came to Chicago to saddle his Preak-ness winner, Mate, for a spectacular victory in the American Derby, has returned East. He must serve as a steward of the two days of racing, mostly steeplechasing, John R. Macomber, New Englands leading sportsman and owner of the once famous race horse Petee-Wrack, will stage at his beautiful Massachusetts estate, Framing-ham, also at another amateur session. But he will be back at Arlington Park to watch the training of Mate for the Arlington Classic. The professional trainer of Mate is James W. Healy, called "Big Jim," to differentiate him from his father, the veteran James Healy, who trains for Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark and one or two others. "Mate," Bostwick told Otto W. Lehmann, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club Saturday, "will make the Arlington Classic if possible. The fact that Twenty Grand beat him rather easily in the Kentucky Derby and has since made a show of Jamestown and Sun Meadow in a Belmont revival, will not keep him away from the post. Few horses win all their races, and it might be worth everybodys while to keep in mind the fact that Mate whipped Twenty Grand twice, first in the test Walden, a dash of one mile and a sixteenth, for two-year-olds, at Pimlico, then in the last Preakness, a gallop of one mile and three-sixteenths, for three-year-olds. In the circumstances a man who would not take a ,000 chance for the winners cup of the Classic Purse would not deserve to own such a horse as Mate.
