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BE MUND IN THE LIMELIGHT. RAINEYS HIGH PRICED COLT IS DEFEATED, BUT NOT DISGRACED. Radtke Lets Martin Steal the Race With Yankee Gun Red Leaf Wins the Merchants and Citizens Handicap. Saratoga, N. Y., August 21. De Mund, the 5,-000 beauty, was todays star performer at the race course. Paul .T. Raineys high priced two-year-old did not win, but he covered himself with glory just the same. It was In the third race, at Ave and a half furlongs for a modest purse, that the giant son of Goldfinch, fighting for his head, carried the tremendous burden of 127 pounds through difficult going to an unlucky and exceedingly narrow defeat. Under Jack Martins vigorous finish the 0,000 Yankee Gun stole up on the Inside of De Mund and, unperceived by Radtke, beat him out In the last stride. Among the horses that trailed him home were Golf Ball, Rosemount, Arcite and Jersey Lady, all In receipt of big weight concessions. On todays showing De Mund again flashed into the limelight and he is now seriously considered for the Futurity. Trainer May lamented the absence of Mr. Rainey, declaring that he would have advised the colts owner to have a plunge bet on him three ways at the liberal odds of six, two and six to five. The stake fixture, the Merchants and Citizens Handicap of ,000, resulted in an upset with the victory of the western inare. Red Leaf. The going was made to order for J. O. Keenes Hghtweighted foiir-year-oldandshe Was able to take the lead "early lu the race and keep It to the end. She won off by herself from the suddenly improved Bedouin. The two heavily backed choices, Outcome and Ravena, were never at any stage of the running serious factors. The Sanford fillys poor race may be safely attributed to the track conditions. For Outcome there will be another day. The imnroving Sir Russell annexed the opening number at seven furlongs. Barney Schreibers Kealon, badly messed about, could do no better than earn third place. Belle of Pequest ran one of her bail races. Woolwich, skillfully ridden by a maiden jockey -named Coane, beat Neptunus in the mile selling race that followed. Matty Corbett bid up the winner from ,400 to ,400. W. A. Me-Nulty bought his horse In for a advance. He had the temerity to say at Brighton that he would bid up Angler. In which Corbett has an Interest, If he was started In any more selling races and Corbett and Odom have since retaliated with a vengeance. Corrigan, with Miller up, is a vastly different racer than when Sandy rides him. It was a mere exercise gallop for the former Burns and Waterhouse horse to beat those opposed to him In the mile and a furlong selling race, fifth on the card, and his race was a revelation to local racegoers. A big coup was brought off with Rose of Gold, at a mile. The fillys win was about the easiest seen this season. Johnstown, the crack three-year-old Sanford maiden, was unable to run freely in the going, but earned a game second. Holscher, the favorite, ran like a counterfeit. Jockeys Koerner and Criininins were set down for four days by the starter. Bill Phillips, trainer for Fred Cook, was a visitor at the track. Ten horses in the stable are at Sheepshead Bay. NIcol will not be seen in the saddle In the east until the opening day of the Coney Island Jockey Clubs autumn meeting. Mars Cassldy has been engaged to alternate with A. B. Dade as starter at Hot Springs next spring. Jockey Baird has disappeared. He packed np his belongings and left the Snyder stable yesterday and has not been seen since. Wes, which was claimed out of the fifth race yesterday by M. L. Hayman, has been returned to J. A. Drake, his former owner. The Ralneys concluded to put Radtke back to work again. "Bub" Mays policy of cutting off his noee to spite his face by keeping the crack rider off their own horses and permitting J. R. Keene to benefit by his services did not appeal to Paul Rainey, who ordered his reinstatement today by wire.
