No crowd, from the stable owners and boxholders to the people in the infield, is tougher than the one at Saratoga. No officials are more officious, no bookmakers more sinister.* But Saratoga, oldest and physically most beautiful U. S. track, considers itself the musnud of U. S. horse racing. As its annual month of races and sales drew to a close last week, Saratoga was loyally if obliquely defended against the encroachments of newer horse parks by one of its most representative habitués.
Richest Saratoga stake is the Hopeful ($25,000 guaranteed). Of recent...
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