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CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE GRAND UNION HOTEL STAKES. The Grand Union notel Stakes is justly esteemed one of the leading events of the Saratoga meeting and Is named after one of the fashionable hotels of the popular resort. It Is one of the series of stakes established in 1901 and has usnally been won by a subsequently good racehorse, Highball, winner of the last American Derby, ltoing a case in point. Apparently a cracking good race will mark its seventh running this afternoon and its record to date is as follows: Year. First. Jockeys. Wt. Second. Wt. Third. WU Val Time 1901 King Hanover T. Burns.. 110 Goldsmith 1117 Dixieline 117 SO 973 lrtV 1902 Grey Friar T. Hums.. 114 Judith Campbell 122 Whiteehapel ...122 loi"0 l"r: 190:: Highball Fuller.. 117 Dimple 110 Rapid Water. ..117 lo"si5 1:14 1904 Siglight H. Phillips.. 110 Jack Lory 117 Cairngorm 117 S "50 1:13 1905 Battleaxe Redfern..ll7 Sandy D. Hulls Eye. 112 Jerry Wernberg. 112 sY.50 1:14 1900 Pcnarrls Shaw. .114 Aletheuo 112 Don Enrique 117 s230 1