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HORACE E.LOSES AT ODDS-ON GREAT WESTERN COLT IS SHORT AND TIRES AT THE END OF HALF A MILE. Conville, tho Winner, Is Much. Admired Rainey Brothers Lose Heavily Fail to Get Even hy Sacking: Anna May Ravenas Fast Race. Saratoga, X. Y., August 10. At the Saratoga race course this afternoon in the presence ot 15,000 expectant spectators, Horace E. sustained a crushing defeat, Both Conville and Purslane easily took the measure of the famous western colt in a purse race at live and one-half furlongs, run in the fast time of 1:001. The downfall of the most talked of two-year-old of the year created a tremendous sensation and was the stile topic of conversation for the remainder of the afternoon. "Hub" May, his k trainer, was tumble to explain away the solitary Instance of a failure on the part of the son of-! Baunockhurn to run up to his real form, or account for the absence of the stamina he has heretofore displayed In both public and private trials. Horace K.s linal preparation was live furlongs in 591 seconds, done early in the week. He was a beaten horse at a half today, run In much slower time. The Ralneys wagered a fortune on their crack at odds of 1 to :t. Anna May was the unsuccessful medium of another heavy backing in the hist race In an effort made by the gamey Clevelanders to get out on the day. Conville, Thomas Hitchcock Jr.s son of Dieudonne and Gualala, was pronounced by William . It. Macdonough, of California, to be the most perfect specimen of a thoroughbred bo had ever seen, always excepting his own Ormonde, now dead, and much resembled Gualala, the dam, which was the most highly prized mare owned by the late Marcus Daly. Frank ONeill, the former jockey, saddled Conville and was named on the program as his trainer. The youngster Is owned jointly by Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. and J. K. .Madden, and was bought last spring at Belmont Park for ,500. His weight in the Futurity is lift pounds and Frank ONeill will have the unusual honor, for so young a man, of preparing hint for the great Sheepshead Bay race. ltavomi inaugurated a brilliant days sport by cantering off with the six furlong sprint in 1:12, thereby establishing a new track record. The former mark, 1:121, was held by Chuctanunda, also a product of the Uurricana Stud, jointly with Ingohl. Tipping, one of the extreme outsiders, showed a meritorious performance in the mile selling that followed, the time, 1:39, being the fastest of the present meeting, and tills by a maiden and in a selling race of the cheapest variety. Kiamesha had only an exercise gallop to van quish the lot opposed to her in the mile handicap, fourth on the card. Mr. Knapps great mare ran in quite her old-time record-breaking form and looms up an important factor in the stakes to which she Is eligilde at this meeting. J. A. Drakes old war horse, Runnels, of supposed doubtful stamina, easily took the mile and three-sixteenths, outclassing his competitors. He pulled up lame. In the last, at live and a half furlongs, Miller warmed up by nursing the hitherto non-staying Revenue home in fast time. She broke away from her attendants while being saddled for this race and jumped the fence In her wild chase into the field. W illie Shields bought Ilolscher from J. 15. Brady today for ,000, and the disappointing Lamplighter three-year-old, which cost his former owner ,000 last fall, ran" in Ills new owners colors in the fifth race, in which he was backed for a killing.
