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SARATOGAS FAST TRACK. Saratoga, N. Y., August 5. Todays racing was chiefly remarkable for the remarkably fast time made by the pacemakers in four of the races, and which practically establishes the reputation of the track as one of the fastest and safest that this country has ever seen built on the most advanced modern ideas. J. B. Haggins two-year-old filly Parisienne, by Watercress Fouche Pas, from a standing break and ridden by an unskilled apprentice jockey, negotiated the furlong in 11H seconds, quarter in 22, the three furlongs in 3i and half in 46j, notwithstanding a wide stretch turn, and the expected collapse only occurred in the last hundred yards. Gunfire and Hatasoo, on which T. Burns and W. OConnor both had orders to force tho pace, raced as a team and the two jockeys dejectedly discussed the situation on the backstretch, both fully realizing the inevitable defeat staring them in the face. The fillies carried 124 pounds apiece and the time, 11, 2Z, 85. 48, 1 :00, 1:14, first six furlongs, of a mile and a sixteenth race, tells its own story. The winner, Par Excellence, had been only recently repurchased by Colonel Pepper from W. Mc-Lemore for ,000, an advance of 00 over the claim" ing price, at which the latter secured her at Brighton Beach. The stable commission went on at 40 to 1 and resulted in probably the largest winning coup of the season. The Drake-Gates plunge on Conundrum was of huge proportion and the Metropolitan layers had for the first time a taste of what was in store for them from these two worthies. They more than recouped their losses, however, on Musketeer and Morningside. High Chancellor ran practically unbacked and can do a great deal better than his race today indicates. Kid Welters popularity bids fair to stand him in good stead just now. His caBe is under favorable consideration and a meeting of the governing committee of the M. P. T. Association will be held tonight to decide his fate.
