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CELLAS PROFITABLE DAY. 1 CLARA HURON WINS KENTUCKY STAKES AND BIG WAGER FOR HIM. , 1 i Bemays Defeat Costly to the Talent Radtke and Miller in a Riding Duel Rain Causes : Many Withdrawals. Saratoga, N. Y., August 20. This was a quiet . day at the race course. A surfeit of racing, sustained at n white heat during the past fortnltrht and brought to a climax with Saturdays tremendous ; crowd and splendid sport, probably caused many to remain away. Again, todays moderate card and the heavy downpour of rain that preceded its running lessened both Interest and patronage. Not more than 10,000 people witnessed the contests on the flooded track. Withdrawals partly ruined the most interesting numbers. L, A. Cella won the Kentucky Selling Stakes at five and a half furlongs with his good-looking fdly Clara Huron and also something like 0,000 in wagers. J. E. Maddens Albert filly Bemay was backed into hot favoritism at odds-on and carried more money to defeat than any hcrse engaged during the afternoon. Peter Sterling was the conspicuous absentee in the mile and a furlong handicap. Other scratches reduced the field to three starters Entree, Yorkshire Lad and Sailor Boy and they finished in that order. The duel between the first two was of the most exciting description. The jockey prodigies Radtke and Miller had the mounts on Entree and Yorkshire Lad respectively, and only a few Inches separated them at the wire after one of the fiercest struggles Imaginable. A depleted field of starters In the steeplechase robbed that race of much Interest, particularly after the withdrawal of Grandpa and Delcanta, Pirate. prpbJjlytUe .best backed horse in the race, won easily after the favorite, Tom Cogan, came to grief while going the second time around. The opening race furnished an upset with the victory of Anneta Lady. The two choices. Belle Strome and Memories performed badly. Samuel II. Harris, well served by the soft going, won the fifth at a mile from a big field of selling platers, darners Incapacity largely contributed to the defeat of Wes, the odds-on favorite, though track conditions helped some. Radtkcs alertness and vigor on Theyre Off enabled that good looking youngster to graduate from the two-year-old maiden ranks. Miller and Hllde-brand, respectively, filled the places on Lally and Prince Fortunatus. Garner rode the favorite. Fish Hawk. Water Pearl has been pronounced out of danger. The great two-year-old quickly recovered from Saturdays alarming attack of stomach ache. A. .1, Joyner says the Watercress colt is all right, but will not be started in the Futurity. Horace E. is all right again and loaves for New York on Wednesday In charge of "Bub" May. Yesterday the celebrated Western colt was worked flve-eighths In 1:03, pulling up, first half IS. He will receive two Futurity preparations over the Futurity course at Siieepshead Bay. De Mund will be left behind to fill a stake engagement next Saturday. Frank ONeill has sold his crack two-year-old Penarris and two recently purchased yearlings by Hamburg Peg Woflington and Plaudit Dorse respectively, for a big price to Mr. M. L. Schwartz, the Wall street broker and owner of Bat Mastcrtson.
