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BURGHS COUP AT SARATOGA. SIMPLE HONOURS WINS EASILY AFTER BEING HEAVILY BACKED. Odds of 100 to 1 at One Stage of the Betting Salvidere Wins the Adirondack Handicap Easy for Athlete. Saratoga, N. Y August 29. A crestfallen lot of racegoers left the course after the last race today. The card, which offered alluring possibilities on paper, did not pan out well. Two of the four prohibitive favorites met defeat with the closing race going to Simple Honours, a long shot. The last named was the medium of a killin". A rumor was in circulation to the effect that he was a ringer, having its source In the vague explanation made by the trainer Preston Buroh when interrogated regarding the horses identity and antecedants. Today ha was persistently backed, there being at one stage of the betting as high as 100 to 1 and 15 to 1 being taken at the close. The Raconteur three-year-old ridden by an inexperienced novice, won an extremely liast race all the way with such ease that horsemen began to sit up and take notice. Thomas Hitchcocks marvelous three-year-old, Salvidere, picked up his- big burden of 128 pounds as lightly as if it had been a feather and scored an impressive victory In the Adirondack Handicap of ,000, at six furlongs from a good company of lightly .wejghted cqlts of his -own. age- Despite the liberal odds of 1 to 2 quoted about the juvenile champion, he was to a certain extent ignored, by the big speculators, most of the wagering being confined to Don Enrique and Eddie Ware for place and show. There was a pronounced tendency to play all around the favorite in this race. The same thing applies to Athlete in the mils event following. The Mlllerltes were Jubilant after the first race in which the jockey scored a lucky win on Plausible. The favorite, Mlntberia, ridden by Garner, was nearly left at the post, and only beaten by niches ac the end. Maximilian, the second choice in the steeplechase, stood up long enough to stagger home In front of Buckman after the odds-on favorite, Allegiance, had fallen at the second from the last Jump. Koerner was severely criticised for his bungling ride on Rusk, another odds-on choice, in the six furlongs sprint, third on the card, the improving Anneta Lady easily passing him in the final sixteenth. Billy Myers has Uma engaged as superintendent at the Crescent City Jockey Clubs track during, the coming winter. Conville worked a recent trial over Horse Haven track, three-quarters of a mile in 1:17: J. E. Madden pronounced his work equal to Salvlderes and predicts that he will win the Futurity In which his weight is 117 pounds. Jule Garson bet 0 straight and 0 place on Simple Honours at odds of 100 and 40. "The wizard trainer," as Madden is termed, plated Salvidere with aluminum plates just before his race this afternoon and then took them off immediately after it was over. Madden says that the principle of wearing tight shoes is involved.
