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Expect Race to Lure Largest Crowd It is a thoroughly interesting field and is hopefully expected to attract one of the largest gatherings to date of the Stanton season. Though he is not presumptuous enough to again try Nashua, Saratoga certainly has to be respected in this event. In the Preakness, he Was approximating Tom Fools course record for a mile and three-sixteenths while himself impelling the Belair champion to reduce it by a second and a fifth. He has trained forwardly here for "Downey" Bonsai since the hilltop classic and probably will again be ridden by the familiar Nick Shuk, long a popular favorite in this area. It is doubtful if in a handicap Westward Ho, who like the Marines got up in the providential nick of time for the Kent, would be required to give his stablemate weight. But he is an improving sort and has potentialities. Of the others we should imagine that Racing Fool, who ran with such ebullience in the Blue Grass Stakes, may be troublesome at the weights. Harry Guggenheims colt has up 119, levels with the highly fancied Saratoga. Robert J. Kleberg is something of a colossus of livestock breeding and now has extended his interests to nearby Unionville, in Pennsylvania. He has acquired from Lamont duPont the Buck and Doe Ranch, at the suggestion of *William duPont, himself a cattle breeder as well as a developer of the thoroughbred. Kleberg now is experimenting, to reduce to exact proportions, the differential in the acreage necessary here and in Texas to prepare steers for the market. A more or less cursory estimate has it that in the "Lone Star" state, where the grazing is rather sparse, it requires an acre for each animal. In this section, where there is more rainfall and grass, five-may graze on one acre. Kleberg is best known to turf enthusiasts as the owner of the King Ranch, which has another "annex" in Central Kentucky, and of the crack colt, High Gun, who is presently pointing for the King George "VT. and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. The Texas sportsman is presently at his vast ranch in the "Lone Star" state, but if High Gun continues to train on satisfactorily both will be present on Ascot Heath, Berks, which is owned and controlled by Englands royal family, when this international is decided on July 16.
