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MASKETTE AGAIN TRIUMPHS j JAMES R. KEENES GREAT FILLY WINS ALABAMA STAKES AT SARATOGA. j Race Was Run Over a Wet Track as Result bf Heavy Downpour of Rain Favorites Again Make Good Showing. Saratoga. N. Y., August 5. Mnsketto will so down in the annals of tin? American turf as the thirtieth winner of the Alabama Stakes. James It. Krones peerless laughter of Disguise Riturica won the hislorie stake from .Miss Kearney. Pctti-coat, Sundance, Hiding ltelle anil Lady Bedford at the local race course today with superlative ease and under particularly trying weather ami track conditions. Kain fell in torrents and the going was fetlock deep in mud. The gigantic, lilly so Immeasurably out looked, outclassed and outpaced her quintette of opponents that the veteran horseman. Jacob Pinchs. trainer of three former winners of this famous race. Woodbine, Olitipa and Susquehanna, exclaimed. "Masketto is the pieen of them all. with the possible exception of La Floehe. Sceptre and lretty Tolly, which wonderful trio it has been my privilege .to see race in Ihigland." Air. Keene and his trainer. James Hone, were averse to starting Jlaskette today because of the possibly serious consequences involved in the going, lioth realized that they were taking tin chance, even though a long one. of defeat. Till.-feeling pervaded tin.- enclosure and was reflected in the betting. Masketto opened at 1 to 4. receded to 2 to 5 and finally closed at : to 10. Some of the layers even bad the temerity to lay against her for the place. The uncertainty as to the outcome was also evidenced by the fact that the trainers of Tetticoat and Sundance bad hopes of winning tin rich and celebrated stake by adding their charges at the eleventh hour. Masketto broke slowly and. to the astonishment of the spectators, considerable time elapsed before sh was able to overhaul such a mediocre racer as Sun dance. After leading the latter it was evident that the favorite controlled the situation, although tin near proximity of her closest pursuers was out of all proportion and totally inconsistent with tin class tbev had hitherto displayed. .Miss Kearneys forward running was, an unexpected and surprising feature of the contest, as it was her stable .companion. Lady Bedford, from which the most serious contention was expected. The Ogden Matuilza lilly, however, seems only a wraith of her former brilliant self. There was a sulliciency of sentiment in the run ning of the last race to stock the county. This race was specially programmed for General Sanford!-benefit. Its conditions covered the eligibility of tilt two llurricana-bred cracks. Herkimer and I.aroii Dieskau, and the veteran turriuan was present to see them run and win. Herkimer was the preferred one of the pair. He immediately strode into the lead, but U-gaii running out at the start. Only the outside fence kept him within the course on the far turn. Taplin found it necessary to hit him with the whip and ho then darted obliquely across the track to the Inner rail, shutting olT his nearest attendant. Lord r.altimore. Then the leader zigzagged his way home to win bv a bead from the grand looking and unmistakable crack. Itaron Dieskau. which was being literally pulled to his haunches to keep hint from passing his tiring stablemate. After the rae was over. Ceneral Stephen Sanford said that Herkimer was a phenomenally fast colt and woind have won bv thirty lengths but for trying to bolt the course. "Hereafter we will race him m blinkers, he added. . , , .. Thistledale, the champion steeplechaser of the country, fell in the cross-country affair because of the slippery condition or the grass course. Metory was seeiuinglv assured for J. W. Colts Ids hnrs when the accident befell him just a hail" mile froir. the goal. It left Itallncalla, the hot tip. to come home alone. . . , ., , , Thomas Calhoun, the victor of the third race, was bid up and acquired by H. G. Iteilwell. owner of Tonv il-aust. the runner-up. for ..:.X. . Ho is considered a cheap horse at that figure, inn rip-pln. one of this seasons crack sprinters, spread i-agled a quintette of lightly weighted opponents of good class in the firth. He. as well as Darkiugnt in the succeeding race, was a successful favorite or the receding kind. .... , , , Taplin said after the last race that , be bad been obliged to reach down and grasp the ring of the bit on Herkimer to guide him Into Ihe stretch. Detective has gone wrong and will be retired for Jhe season.
