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y THREE BIG FEATURES AT SPA Saratoga Special Heads List of Saturdays Brilliant Card. Wise Daughter Opposes Colts Once More Absence of Equipoise in Merchants and Citizens Pleases Owners. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 11. With the Saratoga Special, Merchants and Citizens Handicap and the North American Steeplechase Handicap all down for decision, the Saratoga Association offers one of the most interesting cards of its long meeting for the week end racing. Indications are that weather and track conditions will be propitious and it is confidently expected that the sport will attract a record breaking attendance. The Saratoga Special, by reason of its sporting importance, is the most attractive of the three specials. It is a six furlong sweepstakes for the juveniles and the nine that are named to race, at scale weight, are a choice band that have already proven themselves. The one filly named is Frederick Burtons Wise Daughter, recent winner over Black Buddy and other good ones in the Saratoga Sales Stakes. She has proven herself among the colts and is well equipped to meet them at equal weights. As was predicted, Warren Wright, the Chicago sportsman, is showing his good colt Hadagal for the first time in New York state. George D. Wideners Kawagoe is another that attracted attention by his recent galloping victory. Black Buddy, which has already brought fame to the Greentree Stable silks, has been named from that subscription. From her two subscriptions Mrs. John Hay Whitney has Singing Wood, a winner at Arlington Park, to carry her silks. C. V. Whitneys Sainted is chosen from three subscriptions and though a maiden, he is a good one. On all these nominees have shown the Saratoga Special should produce a rare contest. With nine going to the post, it will net ,750 to the winner and, of course, the handsome gold cup presented by the association. There was no expectation that the champion Equipoise would be raced in the Merchants and Citizens Handicap. The son of Pennant and Swinging had his training interrupted recently and, while he is galloping again, he was hardly tightened up enough for a gallop of a mile and three-sixteenths. With Equipoise out of the way there are nine acceptances of the weights. This leaves the Anal! Stables Larranaga at the top of the weights. Carrying 123 pounds, he is just three under scale weight, and his trials suggest he is at the top of his form. Joseph E. Wideners three-year-old Golden Way, under 111, and the Wheatley Stables Dark S-cret, taking up 120 pounds, are both just six pounds under scale. Each has trained excellently for the running. Mrs. John Hertz has Watch Him as her standardbearer. Mrs. Dodge Sloane is represented by the fast horse Helianthus, handicapped at 116, and Morton L. Schwartz Gusto is at the same figure, both ten pounds under scale. Others of the lighter weights are W. R. Coes Osculator, under the feather of 106; Snap Back, a stablemate to Helianthus, at Continued on twenty-second vage.J THREE BIG FEATURES AT SPA Continued from first page. 107, and W. W. Vaughans good filly Canron, carrying 108 pounds. Osculator ran a dull race in the Saratoga Handicap, but he has trained nicely since that running and a half in :48 this morning suggested a readiness. Gusto has a breeze of a half in :48 to his eredit this morning, after having been trained exceptionally well. There are eleven of the eligibles named for the cross-country feature. Of these Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark has two in Crumpler, a recent winner, and Hamptonian. The Greentree Stable has Cherry Brandy and Plunder to race and the Howe Stable has Actor II. and Sansarica, while the others are all racing singly. Mrs. Rigan McKinney has a good one in Inception. Gwladys Whitney will show Blot and Mrs. Morton L. Schwartz has Lord Johnson. Cree will race for F. Ambrose Clark and the other starter will be L. E. Stoddard, Jr.s Blue Banner. Crumpler becomes the top weight of those engaged, with a burden of 153 pounds, and the others scale down to a low weight of 132 pounds, carried by Actor II. and Plunder.
