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MAY RIVER RUNS SMARTLY WATERCRESS GELDING FIGURES IN SENSA- TIONAL HACE AT SARATOGA. Almost Eliminated at the Start, He Wins Feature of Card Wintergreen Makes Eastern Debut and Runs as if Short. Saratoga, X. Y.. August 0. A varied and attractive card was decided at the Saratoga Associations race course today. Alary Davis, the Los Angeles Oaks winner, was one of the best class horses engaged and made her first appearance in the third race after a retirement of two months. The lilly ruled ravorite and was a keen contender until the final sixteenth, when .she was jostled and succumbed from lack of condition, a quartet of lightly weighted opponents in .May Hirer, High Range, Stolypin and root pad Anally passing her. .1. It. Rcsposs good western colt, Wintergreen, ran prominently for half of the journey and then retired, palpably short. The Rcsposs crack had worked seven-eighths easily in 1:29 for todays race. He had spread a foot while running in the west and had not been previously asked tin? question locally. -May Hirer and Stolypin, which finished first and third respectively, were both almost eliminated at the start and ran sensationally fast on striking their stride. Trainer A. G. I.lakeley, who today saddled Perry Johnson. Mary Davis, Mellowinint and lilackford for various owners, was successful with the last named pair: Mellowniint. in the long-distance affair, was the best-backed starter o the afternoon. . The jumping race was replete with incident. Se-lectus nearly bolted the course after leading his Held by a big margin the first mile. With the Tompkins horse removed, Marksmau and Commodore Fontaine drew out and engaged in one of the longest sustained and fiercest struggles for supremacy ever witnessed in a race of this kind. Jockey Simpson on the former resorted to methods that were unique even in these days of foul riding to beat Commodore Fontaine. He carried him out on the turns and roughed him going over the obstacles. These tactics not proving effective enough. Simpson bent. down and took hold of the opposing horses s bridle to check his speed enough to retain his lead to the" wire. itotii leaders were family beaten. Sandy treeker stealing up nnpercelved on the inside and passing them in the last few strides. The stewards took immediate action in Simpsons case, suspending lilm for the meeting and referring .tin matter to the Jockey Club, with a recommendation that his license lie revoked. Dalmatian and Kingship were the conspicuous absentees in the handicap for two-year-olds, won by Fair Louise. Every racing circuit in the Fluted States was prominently represented, Itusy, Cherry-ola and Rocky OBrien being immediately behind the winner in the order named. Colinet. champion juvenile development of the Umpire City meeting and favorite in the race, finished a beaten-off last. The defeat of Jacipielina, heroine of the second half of the Double Kvent at Shoopshead bay, created a sensation. For a half mile of the running she was pocketed securely. Finally she jammed her way through to be a fast finishing second. Captain E. R. Cassatt ordered jockey McCarthy, who had Unmount on his lilly, Little Friend, in this race, to complain to the stewards of the rough manner in which his mount had been treated. 1. Dunne has re-purchased at an advance his crack two-year-old. Billiard Hall, which was claimed from him out of the lifth race on Saturdav- for ,940. Itlark Hawk was started by II. G. Redwell in tlie sixth race by permission of his former owner, V. Whalen. The horse ran a comparatively poor race and may be strictly a heavy track racer. Robert II. Davis remarked that Mary Davis was packing fifty-six pounds of dead weight in her race today, jockey Class requiring that amount of lead pads to make the weight. The report that Jack Atkin will be in enforced retirement for a couple of months, on account of injuries received in his last race, was continued today. George W. Loholt was claimed out of the sixth race today for ,420 by II. G. ISedwell.
