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DANDELION AGAIN WINNER IEADS FAR WEST AT THE FINISH OF THE FEATURE AT SARATOGA Mohawk II Breaks Down Mr Kccne Uncovers a aFine Fine Filly in Maskette Track I Is Made Faster Saratoga X Y August 3 Todays racing at Saratoga furnished plenty of Incidents sensational and otherwise The famous Mohawk II lirokc down irretrievably luring the running of the fourth race Steeplechase jockey T OBrien deliberately rode Kufus into a wrong course when lending Banner his solitary op ¬ ponent by a sixteenth of a mile on the turn for liome and James It Keene uncovered a wonderful twoyearold lilly in Maskette iu the race which closed the afternoon proceedings proceedingsThe The list of minor happenings include the unseating of jockey Sweet and the consequent elimination of Please the heavily hacked favorite in the lirst rlce which was subsequently won by an extreme outsider The almost comical attempt at a contest of Malacca the oddson favorite in the steeplechase despite his never having been previously schooled over the ditlicult course the foul boringout stretch turn tactics employed by jockey Sammy Sweet in the tifth and sixth races on Colonel White and Louise Bell and lastly the debut of Miss Kearney the reputed best twoyearold lilly in the J E Madden barn barnThe The excellent cards chief feature was run as the fourth race a handicap at out mile In which a number of turf celebrities including Mohawk II Dandelion Dorantc and Far West were started Eight of the fifteen originally entered were with ¬ drawn Stamina and Itoyal Tourist being the most conspicuous absentees A T Joyner declined to start the Whitney pair against Dandelion on the ground that the Hitchcock horse had been too leni ¬ ently treated in the allotment of weights The losing odds alxmt Dandelion were 0 to 10 and the Hamburg horse won as an oddson favorite should The unfortunate Mohawk II made the running for nearly six and a half furlongs when a bone in the pastern of the left foreleg snapped in two and he stopped and reeled to the outside so suddenly and unexpectedly that a collision with Ids nearest pursuers Including Dandelion seemed Inevitable Bill Walter Millers roolness averted disaster and the others swept by tin pair unharmed The live yearold Kanford horse was making his first public appearance under colors since he was retired two jiars ago Mohawk JI was lie champion juvenile or the Saratoga season in 1K5 and when attacked with a skin disease similar to that which destroyed the immortal Sysonby an anticipated brilliant career on the metropolitan turf had to be abandoned The horse will be saved for stud purposes Overshadowing purposesOvershadowing public interest in which senti ¬ ment played a big part centered on the running of the sixth race in which lames K Kecnes gigantic twoyearold Maskette was programmed to make her debut Kcports of her phenomenal private trials had prevailed and horsemen and public alike were eager to sec her run John B Madden who was sending the best he had iu a feminine way ex ¬ claimed What chance has my lilly got against one which Mr Keene says will never meet defeat The daughter of Disguise Biturica is one of the largest of her age and sex ever seen on the Ameri ¬ can turf Her uuwieldiness and inability to get into her stride at the start nearly brought about her undoing It required a lirst furlong in less than ten seconds limed separately by several for Maskelte to get in touch with the leaders Midway up the stretch the 1 to 4 chance seemed hopelessly beaten but Xotter went at her so savagely that she almost jumped from under him and drew out finally and with such decisive ease as to cause tho spectators lo stand agape at the spectacle The time of the race 1 OGi beat last Fridays performance of Wed ¬ ding Bells her stable companion by twofifths of a second Bsperls predict trouble for the seemingly unconquerable Madden pair Sir Martin and Fayctte when they meet Maskette Mr Madden himself however was skeptical of her ability to cope with his youngsters which he intends to take over to England immediately after they fill their stake en ¬ gagements at Belmout Park in the fall fallOtticially Otticially todays attendance was larger than that of the opening day New arrivals are steadily Mining in by train trolley nd automobile The big hotels are fast filling up and the sport is fast resuming its oldtime aspect aspectFlip Flip HamburgFayette Flap is in foal to Hamburg Fayette and Sir Martin worked six furlongs over the Horse Haven track in 117 during tin morning It is conceded to be equal to 112J on the regular track This is part of their preparation for the Saratoga Special on Saturday J W May was so displeased by starter Cassidys action in placing his tilly Please on the schooling list after the first race that he threatened to take his horses away from the track forthwith forthwithAnonyma Anonyma the half sister lo Sysonby was worked between races a mile and an eighth trial in 157 whipped out It required ten minutes of coaxing to get the Alabama Stakes candidate to start on her long journey journeyJ J B Seagram and O It Tompkins were visitors at the track The latter has been ill illOne One of Elders assistants named F X McCafferty a former newspaper man has been on the ground in daysAn an unofficial capacity for several days An authoritative source says that Governor Hughes will have his personal representative here within fortyeight hours hoursBoth Both Crack Shot and Colonel White were saddled for the fifth race by H E Udwell It is said that Crack Shot ran away one and a half miles dur ¬ ing the forenoon forenoonSome Some of the sand which had b bfn fn spread over the tourse just before the meeting l egan was scraped off yesterday and this partially accounts for the relatively faster time made today in the different races racesIt It T Wilson Trs liorses were scratched from days races on account of the death of his mother law Miss Kearney Iiad worked six furlongs in 114 TTyf ° rc leaving Sheepshead Bay BayThe The horses running in the name of Edward H Carle are leased from F Ambrose Clark
