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SARATOGA TURNOUTS.

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Congress Hall, July 25th.

The drives about Saratoga are
getting nicer and nicer every
year, and Lake Avenue, running
as straight as an arrow from the
village to the lake, will one day
rival the famous Unter den
Linden of Berlin. We have not
the Brandenburg Gate, nor the
statue of Frederick the Great,
on the way, but we have four
beautiful rows of trees most of
the way, and when sprinkled the
drive down by the old Saratoga battlefield is unsurpassed. The
distances to the different points of interest here are as follows:

               

	Miles.
Saratoga Lake	4
Gridley's Trout Ponds	2
Prospect Hill	5
Glen Mitchell and Loughberry Lake	4
Ballston Spa	7
White Sulphur Spring and Red Spring	4
Geyser Spring	2

EOUIPAGES.

My statistical friend has been riding with almost every body
here, and he hands me the following list of turnouts:

John Appleton, publisher, pair of long-tailed bays to a clarence.

Mr. I. N. Phelps, Dodge & Co., New York; dapple grays;
stylish; bow-necks.

Mr. E. A. Hammond, the millionaire batchelor of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, pair of large bays to a dogcart, takes out Mr. J.
Coddington and M. G. M. Groves.

Mr. James H. Peabody, of Philadelphia, bays to a landau.

Mr. Joseph Harker, Commodore Vanderbilt's friend, pair of
trotters.

Mr. P. Van Valkenburg, handsome span of bays.

Sheriff O'Brien, sorrel horses to a dogcart.

Hon. William Wall, of Fifth Avenue, pair of grays.

Mr. Charles Wall, of Park Avenue, grays to a barouche.

Mr. Frank H. Lord, stylish English drag with span of bays.
Also tandem team.

R. H. Southgate, sorrel trotters, time 2:37.

C. F. Southgate, handsome blacks.

Mr. S. W. Coe, of East Forty-second street (H. B. Claflan &
Co.), poney phaeton, and clarence seen almost every afternoon
riding to the lake with a load of beautiful children.

George H. Bissell, of 5th Avenue, stylish Vermont bays to
open box-drag. Mrs. Tenney his sister, and his daughter, Miss
Florence, and handsome little son Pelham, generally ride with
him.

Judge B. H. Bixby, spike tail road team—time, 2:37¾.

Colonel R. C. Hawkins, bays to a park phaeton.

Mr. W. S. Wyse (time, 2:40), Mr. J. F. Purdy (time, 2:38), Mr.
J. R. Whaley (time, 2:37½), and Mr. A. L. Webb (time, 2:41), fast road horses to light wagons.

Mr. J. P. Wallace, handsome span to park phaeton.

Mr. J, L. Young, gray trotters—time 2:41.

Wm. Turnbull, sorrel colts, raised by himself.

Robert Squires, President of the Third Avenue Railroad,
blacks to a landau. His son, Chalmers, bay trotter to a light
wagon—time, 2:39.

Major Gibbs, English drag with side seats—horses chestnuts.

D. C. Wilcox, bays to a park pheaton.

Captain J. B. Thomas, bays to a “C” spring landau.

E. H. Miller, brown horses to a park phaeton.

B. F. Carver, banker, large bays to a “C” spring landau.

George Dennison, bay horses to a park phaeton.

Colonel J. A. Bridgeland, of Indiana, span of Cadmans bays,
drives out in his Brewster phaeton, Senator Robertson, Colonel
A. Boody, President of the Wabash Railroad; Fernando Wood,
and Mr. F. S. Davis, President of the First National Bank of
Memphis.

Hon. A. Boody, of 5th Avenue, the great Railroad projector,
bays to a landau.

Ex-Mayor George Opdyke, bays to a clarence.

Mr. T. Brooks, of Brooklyn, dapple grays to a landau.

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Robert L. Stewart, the New York sugar refiner, bays to a
four-seated German-town.

Mrs. W. H. Hicks, of East Fourteenth, rides on horseback
morning and evening, accompanied by her grooms.

John T. Farish, an old habitué of Saratoga and the Clarendon,
Kentucky thorough-breds. For thirty years Mr. Farish has
annually appeared at the Clarendon—a bachelor, and, the
gossips say, a great catch. Imagine the commotion of the
Clarendonite ladies when this year he appeared upon the scene
with a—beautiful wife!

J. R. Franklyn, New York City, bays to a Brewster phaeton.

Mr. Kellogg, of New York, browns to an open carriage.

Henry Smith, President of the Board of Police Commissioners,
brown horses to a landau.

O. A. Bills, of Yonkers, gray trotters—time, 2:42.

George A. Taylor, bays to a park phaeton.

Judge Barnard, chestnuts to a park phaeton.

Dr. Crane, of East Twenty-first street, chestnuts to a park
phaeton.

A. T. Stewart, pair of large Kentucky thoroughbred bays.

Judge Hilton, pair of large browns to a landau.