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SARATOGA GOSSIP. Sakatoga, N. Y., August 26. A perfect day and track and a particularly attractive card served to draw out a large and enthusiastic throng today that filled the grand stand. The lawns and paddock presented the appearance of a fashionable garden party. It is not given to many to be present on an occasion rendered memorable by the victories of two such superlatively great race horses as Chnctanunda and Advance Guard. But few realized that their performances of today had shed additional luster on the American turf and were destined to be recalled with pride in after years by those fortunate enough to have witnessed them. It is a matter of regret to have to report the breakdown, through bowing a tendon this morning in work, of E. J. Baldwins crack three-year-old Crnzados, by Emperor or Norfolk Atalanta II. The "Big Store," Ullman and Weller, laid many individual wagers, their shoots being jovered with figures, againBt every starter but one in the fourth race today, that one exception being the winner, Red Knight. His name was written at the bottom corner out of the way, and but two bets were recorded against him, but they were fairly good ones 5,000 to ,IC0 straight, ,000 to ,000 place and ,000 to ,000 third, made by "Pittsburg Phil," and the other bet by A. Alberts called for 0,000 to CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. SABATOGA GOSSIP. Continued from First Page. ,000 to win, ,000 to ,000 place and ,000 to ,000 to show. W. C. Whitneys large batch of yearlings recently .shipped from Kentucky has arrived here in good aondition. T. Monaaan, owner of BroadBtreet, was fined 00 by the stewards for being late in providing a jockey to ride the horse in the fifth race. He was scratched at the last moment. Early in the betting John A. Drake placed the modest wager of ,000 at evens on Chuctanunda, when it was suggested that he had often riiked much larger sums on cheap selling platers and that here was the champion of the year in his class, piloted by a crack jockey, a small field and at his distance, that it was Jup to him to touch up the layers for an amountlworthyf of ;the occasion, he smilingly acquiesced and he not only acted promptly and industriously on the suggestion, but applied it with redoubled vigor in the next race, where Advance Guard particularly fulfilled all these conditions. The superbly bred two-year-old colt Meltonian by-Melton Argenta, fran a brilliant. and high-class race today, beaten a short head by C. B. Ellisons crack colt Skilful, and bids fair to improve into one of the colts of the year. His recent trial of six furlongs in 1:13 flat was pronounced by experts as particularly taking. Parisina, by The Pepper, a three-year-old filly, which is still a maiden, worked six furlongs last Saturday in 1 :13. At the banquet given Monday night to the directors t of the Saratoga Bacing Association by the President, Mr. W. C. Whitney, the financial success of the current year was informally referred to. It is calculated that this years profits will exceed 30,000, as against 8,000 last year. The same divi dend declared last season will be paid to the stockholders and the surplus will be devoted to improvements projected in the immediate future.! The membership seats in the Metropolitan Turf Association of F. Reardon, who welched and was expelled last summer, and of the late Butch Thompson and Ed Marks will be sold at auction at the regular meeting of the association next Friday evening.
