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i Connors , Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Hopeful Is Well-NamecTStake Big Juvenile Event at Saratoga Sir Boss Double-Crosses Doctors SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 25. Today the boys and girls are thinking of the Hopeful, which is down for decision on Saturday. This event, by the way, is one of the best named races in the country and was instituted in the regime of the late William Collins Whitney, grandfather of C. V. and John Hay, of the present generation. Who is responsible for the naming of the race? That is one question the modern day authorities are in doubt about. However, the name is outstanding and full of significance. Every owner who buys or breeds a yearling is hopeful that his will be the best. Today there are a great number of stake races presented on the American turf and the newer additions to the agenda show no such choice of names as the Hopeful or the Futurity. The latter is also significant in that the future is always the goal of an owner or trainer. However, the stake nomenclatures of the older fixtures here and in New York have become mellowed with age and are familiar to -all racing men. There is an old gag kicking around that imitation is the sin-cerest form of flattery, but when it comes to naming races, well, that seems far fetched. There are numerous derbys and futurities today, as a matter of fact, too many, and, in the long run, it is rather confusing to a veteran to separate one from the other, to say nothing of a newcomer. The Hopeful is the big one for the juvenile brigade at the meeting and to the winning owner there is more than cash and glory and satisfaction. To the jockey and trainer, well, the 10 per "cent of the net purse looms large in the discussion. The first winner of the Hopeful back in 1903 was James R. Keenes. Delhi, ridden by Cannon and trained by Jimmy Rowe. Whose name will be inscribed on the list Saturday, well, that is something yet to be decided. Bob Gilmore, the veteran who trained In Memoriam and others of past generations, checked in this morning and reported that the ODare motor lines were back in operation. The company, reorganized, will henceforth be known as Jack ODares Motor Lines, Inc. . . . Trainer Ed Haughton, who is at Aqueduct, relayed word that he will ship up a couple of horses for engagements the final few days of the meeting. . . . The valets were still celebrating their baseball victory over the jockeys, the game was held on Sunday, the score 11 to 10. The usual length of a soft-ball game is seven innings, but the valets condescended to give the jockeys a couple of extra innings to tie the score, which they f ailed to do. . . . Jockey Hank Moreno returned from Atlantic City, where he rode oh Saturday, and will fill out his Hopeful engagement over the week, end astride Turn-to for the Cain Hoy Stable. Trainer Dolly Byers loaded the horses he had here for various patrons and checked out for Belmont Park. He also reported that the coughing which struck the barn had cleared up and that the two-year-olds .would be ready for Aqueduct engagements. . .Charley Whitting-ham reported that Llangollen Farms Porterhouse was a victim of the cough and would be an absentee from "the Hopeful on Saturday. . .Barney Wilson, the Mi-amian, passed up his annual Saratoga visit. He was called to New York to attend the funeral services of his brother and then decided against the trip. When the last race was entered in the book on Monday night the index figure men designated the event as the 1,000th run. on the New York tracks this year. . . Word was received from New England that the veteran Guy Milton is on the ailing list. . . .Mrs. Katherine MacLeod accompanied by her son Colin "Sandy" left for Virginia, but promised to be at Belmont Park for a few days racing. . .Earl Ellis, who has several horses in training here, was an arrival for the remainder of the meeting. . .Trainer George Odom reported that the Irish-bred The Pie Man, winner of the Gimcrack Stakes and others, would be shipped to him Connors Corner By C. J. CONNORS Continued from Page Fire at Belmont Park, arriving on September 27. The arrangements were made by Ray Bell. At private terms, Mrs. S. C. Clark acquired from the Woodvale Farm of Itoycc Martin, Sally Boots. The new acquisition was turned over to Jack Skinner and will be trained for steeplechase events . . . Word from Kentucky is to the effect that Lee McCoy was kicked by a yearling: and suffered three broken ribs. lie was treated at a Lexington hospital . . . Trainer Yorky McLcod, of the Saxon Stable, reported that Marcador, a good campaigner in California, was back in training. lie was also enthused with the showing of the stables Sir Boss in the Grand Union over the week end. He remarked that it might prove surprising to some four California vets, all of whom told McLeod last January that the colt was suffering from a. mysterious malady which indicated that his days were very few so they read his death warrant. They asked permission to perform a post-mortem so that they might satisfy themselves of the cause of death. Sir Boss is a probable for next Saturdays Hopeful. George and Julia Odom had as guests for a stable breakfast this morning Mayor and Mrs. Mallory of Saratoga Springs. The event is an annual one and the hot cakes and sauages were in demand . . .Bill Gargan, the motion picture man, deserted Jack Campbell and Francis P. Dunne and headed for New York on a business trip. His Saratoga Springs excursion was declared a nonprofit one. . .Jockey Ted Atkinson was fitted with a special spinal brace at his Westbury, L. I. home by Dr. Alexander Kaye. The latter is of the opinion that Atkinson will be capable of returning to the saddle before the running of the Sysonby Mile at Belmont Park. The Greentree jockey injured his spinal column in a fall here last week. . . .Twenty-one stitches were need to close the cuts suffered by steeplechase jockey Carlyle Cameron in his fall from Repose yesterday. The attending physicians reported that he had recovered from the slight concussion which he showed when first attended.
