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DROUGHT AT SARATOGA ENDS Rainfall Greeted With Glee by Track! Superintendent at Spa. Annual Meeting at Upstate New York Resort Begins Monday Yearling Sales Discussed. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., July 29. Track superintendent Tom Clares fortnight-long prayers for rain have been answered As a result he will have ready on Monday when the Saratoga Race Association gets under way a jumping course and a main racing strip that are in perfect condition. Showers fell throughout a thirty-six-hour period ending at 6 oclock Friday morning, . and as a result the main racing strip, the Oklahoma training track and several private training courses were deep in mild today. And once again the fine old sod in the in-, field had plenty of "give" to it, where two days ago it was as hard, according to Clare and to men who have been working their horses over it, as a Broadway sidewalk. They had the "dogs" out during work hours and the few horses which worked were well out in the track. Ordinarily rain and resulting mud hold little fascination for racing people, but the recent showers threw everybody here into transports of joy. This section, like the rest of New York, has suf? fered severely in the long drought. In the beautiful Saratoga infield the grass had begun to turn an ugly yellowish brown and even now, after the soaking it has enjoyed, it still is more of a fawn color for the most part than green. Clare holds, however, that within a few days it will show benefits from, the long-needed wetting and will turn agaiij to a lush green carpet. PLENTY OF HORSES. For weeks officials of the seventy-five year-old track report there rave been more than enough horses to operate a successful race meeting. Py next mid-week, it is promised, there will be available to racing secretary John Banks Campbell at least 2,600. thoroughbreds, among them the majority of the outstanding performers in all divisions. Even now, several days before the meeting is scheduled to get under way, there are on the grounds or in the immediate neighborhood a greater collection of stars, probably, than can be found at any other track or any other two tracks in the country. Among the owners represented by horses here are Samuel D. Riddles Glen Riddle Farms, William Ziegler, Calumet Farm, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbiit, Joseph E. Widener, George D. Widener, Cornelius Vanderbiit Whitney,. Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable, Manhasset Stable, Gwladys Whitney, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Hal Price Headley, William F. Hitt, Maemere Farm, Louis B Mayer, Warbern Stable, W. L. Ranch Coldstream Stud, Elmer Dale Shaffer, Brook-meade Stable, Belair Stud, William L. Brann. Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Lewis, Millsdale Stable W. E. Boeing, Thomas Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, King Ranch, hf.n,lM-TPair Cornin Brandywine Stable R McLaughlin, Connie Smythe, Fa-laise btable and Longchamps Farm. MORE COMING. There are others here, of course, and andfnTn16 arJiVlng ver the eek-end and up to the end of next week. With the conclusion on Saturday of the meetine at wniTeHhAaVeen camPaigning there a? "eaded for this point. s ant oTth. gnfm5early attention here than VZnL lh.et horses are Johnstown and Challedon, which have engaged in a neck-and-neck, for the championship knock-down of and the drag-out thrfe-yeai-o battle ds! frJm AH!rnnfedDherf together last Monday from Arlington Park, where, on the nreced-jng Saturday Challedon astounded 0 mL STTmng Arlington Classic, wln ni! 10? Johnstown and others. These two horses are in beautiful shano and appear to have benefited no end from f idleness! COmParave Jonn , mretinS own anT1,0113 enments at the meeting and it is very probable he will ful- ? atLea,st four of them. On the -other SaratoSalif ?n iS n0t ened n any of the wonJ h! Stake and the chances are he ZU. 6 Slen here under sks. However other members of his stable will be 2 Schaefer. 7 yS trainer J. INSPECT YEARLINGS. There is much talk of the yearling sales to be held during August. Quite a numb of the trainers on the grounds have made f?Tnd-f Kentucky, Virginia and Mary! land breeding farms, and have spotted the youngsters on which they are going to have their employers bid, or on which they y them! selves are going to bid. Two stakes grace the first program of the meeting One is the five and one-half fur-jKfifIaShu Stakes for two-year-olds, and Si S6rhe Se7en furlonSs American Le-g Hadlcap for three-year-olds and up-T5e lash has an estimated value of ,500 and will enjoy its sixty-fifth running. The American Legion Handicap in its thirteenth running is a ,000 added fixture and offers to the winner, in addition to money a piece of plate. It is expected that each of these events will attract smart fields and that in the matter of quality, time and class they will measure up to past renewals.
