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After the Travers, Saratoga race-goers will have two more weeks in which to enjoy the contest for riding honors between two crack jockeys, 19-year-old Coucci, contract rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Meade who rides for Colonel Bradley. Feature stake races for 2-year-olds in the last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat Eye and "Sonny" Whitney's Today. The meet will close on Sept. 1 with the famed Saratoga Cup, for 3-year-olds and up, in which Cavalcade may be well enough to run. Mr. Whitney's 6-year-old Equipoise, who has earnings of $333,960 to his credit, is eligible for the race but will be pointed instead for the $100,000 race to be run at Santa Anita Park in California next winter.
Cavalcade. In 1920 Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War retired after winning 20 races in 21 starts. So great was the prowess of Man o' War that he remains today the outstanding U. S. racehorse with which all others must, sooner or later, be compared. In 1930 some thought that Gallant Fox might get into his class. In 1931 it was Twenty Grand that the dopesters were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while Paramount angled for his services in a racehorse film based on a story by Sportswriter Damon Runyon.
This year the racehorse whose name is most frequently bracketed with that of Man o' War is Mrs. Sloane's Cavalcade. The only race Cavalcade has lost this year is the Preakness, in which he was a close second to his stablemate, High Quest. He has won the Shenandoah Purse, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, American Derby, Detroit Derby and Arlington Classic, against the best horses of his age in the country. At the Saratoga yearling sales in 1932, Cavalcade cost his owner $1,200. He is now insured at $200,000, valued at $500,000. His winnings total $126,965. Far below Sun Beau's world record of $376,744 (for five seasons), they are comparable because his prizes were diminished by Depression. If Cavalcade wins the Saratoga Cup, he will be well on his way to equalling Man o' War's record. If he also wins—as horsemen last week considered him likely to do—a proposed international race against Windsor Lad, winner of the English Derby, and Admiral Drake, winner of the Grand Prix, he may well join Man o' War as the model for great U. S. racehorses of the future.