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. 1 Connors Corner I By "CHUCK" CONNORS Track Heads Converge at Saratoga Talk Shop for Racing This Winter Sysonby Mile Holds Great Promise SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 18. There was a bit of chill in the air this morning, a harbinger that the fall season is-preparing to take over. However, this was not the only indication that in a few months the winter racing season will be ready for unveiling. Saratoga Springs during August is the convention city for the top brass of the racing scene and this year was no exception. Tropical Park and the horsemen met, John Clark had a half dozen conferences relative to Hialeah and then Horace Wade came along to do a little gospel spreading for Gulfstream Park. The Fair Grounds in New Orleans put forth a couple of feelers and Santa Anita had a personal representative in the person of Carleton Burke. All in all, the situation was fairly well canvassed and the lamp at the end of the rainbow was fanned into a bright flame. While all these moves were recorded, the New York situation was not neglected. The interest that was generated earlier in the summer, relative to a meeting between Native Dancer and Tom Fool, was supercharged when Belmont Park advanced the date of the Sysonby, and tilted the pot-to 0,000. That little extra financial endowment was heard far and wide and, as a result, a pronounced increase in nominations. The newcomers came from out of the West and Midwest, where the general belief is that champions are made to be dethroned and on various occasions proved their point. -Anyway, the Sysonby will not be a two-horse race between the accepted leaders, as many in this area were confident it would. The dates for the Belmont Park meeting are such that the Westerners will be heading east for the big, events such as the Futurity and other handicaps and the Sysonby. What a spot and what a purse! The race, one mile, is down for decision on September 26, and a recent tabulation revealed that 30 nominations" are at hand and more expected. Among the Westerners named for the Sysonby are Royal Serenade, Oil Capitol, Ruhe, Cyclotron and Olympic. These bring some better-than-average credentials to present to the racing solons. In addition to the two most talked of, Tom Fool and Native Dancer, there are a flock of Easterners headed by Grecian Queen and some other speedsters. From here it does not shape up as an event in which the Westchester Racing Association will reach for the red ink bottle, but one that could develop into a spectacle that may make racing history. Until the big afternoon rolls around keep your fingers crossed against accidents, sickness or tantrums to the stars and let Belmont Park worry about the other details. Alex Robb, of the Westchester Racing Association, Belmont Park, arrived for his annual visit and reported an increase in the stake nominations for the fall session . . . Trainer Max Hirsch ordered the horses that were victims of the cough but now recovered shipped to Belmont Park to be readied for the fall season. The first draft will leave over the week end . . . Trainer Morris Dixon reported that the Case Ace yearling acquired by Arthur Godfrey is doing nicely at his new owners Virginia farm but will be taken up next month to be broken and given his preliminary racing lessons. Lennie Litwak, track superintendent at Aqueduct, checked in for a look-see and some advance data on the number of horses to be shipped to the Rockaway Boulevard course following the close of this meeting . . . S. Bryce Wing, the Maryland official, arrived yesterday and plans to remain for the balance of the meeting Trainer Ray DeStefano reported that the Hampton Stables Alerted showed signs of sulking in the paddock before his start in the American Legion. However, he plans to send him postward in the Saratoga Handicap this week end . . . Harry F. Guggenheim, master of Cain Hoy Stable, returned to New York City on business but will be back on Thursday . . . Royce Martin, of Wood- Continued on Page Forty-Thrte Connors Corner By C. J. CONNORS Continued from Page. Fin vale Farm, deserted the local scene for several business conferences in Manhattan. James Healey, trainer and part time tennis expert, accompanied by his daughter, Katherine, arrived from Forest Hills for a few days racing. This prompted Johnny Swisher to remark that Healey showed up after the yearling sales had come to a close . . . Cyrus S. Jullien, president, of Aqueduct, was on hand for a one day visit. He reported that Sundays band concert, the music supplied by Major Sutherland, attracted 4,500 people . . . Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hoffman and Mr. and Mrs. George Brown of Jamaica are here on their annual pilgrimage to the mecca of king thoroughbred. Sol Rutchick reported yesterday that the stakes winner Count Flame will be retired from the racing wars this fall and enter the stud in Virginia next spring. Count Flame, owned by the New Yorker, Col. E. P. Bixer, was syndicated recently to a group of Virginians, they hold 16 of the 30 shares with Bixer retaining the remainder. Count Flame will stand at the Pine "Brook Farm of Dr. Frank OKeefe of Warrenton, Va. Bixer, according to Rutchick, will purchase several broodmares over the next few months . . . Mr. and Mrs. Dan Chappell and their daughter Dania, will be hosts at a dinner party tomorrow. The ddughty Dan refused to go on record whether it was natal day, anniversary or just social. Mrs. Anne Clare, track superintendent here, has branched out in the cattle business but has no aspirations to vie with King Ranch. Her pet Guernsey, Bessie, dropped a calf yesterday which will be the nucleus of the herd ... The suspension of Eric Guerin which eliminates him from riding Native Dancer in the American Derby recalls tj mind when Clarence Rummer, the regular jockey of Man o War, as a three-year-old, was grounded here. Jockeys Earl Sande and Andy Schuttinger were substituted during his vacation. Frank Stevens, president of the Stevens Crabbing and Fishing Association, returned from New York where he spent several days on business . . . Sam Garfield and the missus gave the scene the once over and then stamped their seal of approval on the scenery . . . Lambert Goldsmith, New York representative of Laudy Lawrence, the international owner and breeder, returned from a fishing trip to Canadian waters . . . Trainer Bill Post reported that his charges have recovered from the cough and are back in training. ..Dr. Alberto Inclan, the Havana owner and breeder, is on the sidelines suffering from a cold. Too much information from his turf advisers Bill Gonda and Paul Mooney, reported the affable Cuban.
