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FIRST CHOICES FARE BADLY YESTERDAYS WINNERS AT SARATOGA COME FROM UNEXPECTED SOURCES. Sensational Betting; Coup Brought Off on Louise Welles Rough Riding Contributes to Downfall of the Favorites. Saratoga. X. Y.. August 11. Racings important adjunct overshadowed the sport itself at the race rwirsc today. After Besoms victory in the intro-ililctory sprint, live favorites were defeateil in succession. The sequence of winning outsiders was climaxed ly the victory of the 100-to-l shot, Louise Welles, a sensationally fast daughter of Dick Welles and Flora Louise. This lilly defeated a big hand of two-year-olds, including really good ones like Amelia .lenks and Democrat, in the sixth race. Jerome B. Kespess lilly was the medium of a tremendous betting colli, which did not materialize until the last few moments of speculation. W. E. Applegate. Jr., and Leo Mayer were the principal beneticiaries of this sensational killing, and between them mulcted the ring out of sums variously estimated at from 5,000 to 0,000. The last bet laid in the ring was ,200 against 0 by A. J. Levy to young Applegate. Waterway, pronounced by experts to be the best steeplechaser in the country, was the lirst nubile choice to come to grief. A slight stumble at the lifth jump unseated the jockey. W. Allen, and left the favorites inconsequential opponents to continue their journey without him. A rousing finish resulted lietween the pair. Kays tactics of using head, arms and heels on Byzantine, the extreme outsider, proved surprisingly efficacious despite the horses seeming deficiency In speed and stamina. The Troy Selling Stakes, the cards principal feature, was captured by- Mexoaua with great ease, lretend. at odds-on. finished a Uagging, but game second just In front of Little King, which had been all but left at the post. Several professional dockers made the time a full second faster than the ollicial announcement of 1:074. The tabled history of the Troy Selling Stakes Is as follows: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1001 Five Nations 105 Shaw .:!S5 1:073 1002 Plater 110 II. Michaels S.1S0 1:0P 1903 Divination 102 Kcdfern ... 3.005 1:07- 1904 CU1 Ten !5 Ilildebrand.. 2.575 1:07 1!05 Kustliug Silk !2 McDaniel .. 2.410 1:071 1100 Loring 91 Finn 2.295 1:015 107 Frlzette 102 W. Miller.. 2,:::!0 1:00V 1O0S Obdurate lOt O. II. Shilg :!70 1:105 1009 Mexoana 102 Creevy 075 1:071 Hough riding marred the running of the fourth raw- and contributed materially to the defeat of the third defeated favorite, Zipango. Some of the dead timber in the race, like Darknight and Lane Allen, got in the way of the good horses at various stages of the struggle. While Sliding Belles head victory was the luckiest imaginable, her forward running in contrast to her previous effort, evoked unfavorable criticisms. Bonnie Kelso showed a sudden and complete return to form in the fifth, which lie won easily from a big band, including Turncoat, which ran an incomprehensibly bad Rice despite recent encouraging trials. Louise Welles running was marked by fast early pace. Her opponents were badly mixed iqr for three-eighths of the journey, the two pronounced choices. Amelia Jenks and Democrat, not showing clear of the others until the last fifty yards. Besom stripped for todays struggle with a gaping wound on his right front foot, "where he had grabltcd himself in his previous race. Frauds B. Hitchcock left for New York this morning to be gone until next Saturday. II. K. Knapp arrived today after a brief absence in New York. -Besom was bid up from ,000 to .S00 by S. C. Hildreth in retaliation for tlie run up of Montgomery at Gravesend last June. On Tuesday Barleythorpc worked three-quarters in 1 :1S. The fast Woolstborpe colt has fully recovered from his recent attack of cold and coughing. The price asked for Barleythorpc is 5,000 and a contingent interest in winnings in stakes in which he may contest during the remainder of the season. Sweeji worked three-quarters in 1:155 tills morning. Faiintleroy worked the same distance in 1:141!. while Live Wire went a mile easily in 1:43-. De Miiuds three-quarters in 1:1-1 was regarded as a great improvement over recent trials. It. T. Wilson. Jr.. has been confined to bis home by reason of illness the past week. The enthusiastic president of the Saratoga Association came to the course expressly to see his filly, Mexoana. run in the Troy Selling Stakes and was much pleased over her brilliant victory. W. 1. Fraser. secretary of the Ontario Jockey Club, was at the track today engaged in distributing entry blanks for stakes closing Thursday. Mr. Fraser says that there is no truth in the rumor that duty will be charged on horses going into or coming out of Canada for the purpose of racing. Hereafter winners of selling races will be sold in the paddock and not in front of the judges stand, as has been the custom. J. L. Holland, president of the Los Angeles Kacing Association, is a recent arrival. There will be a meeting of the directors of the Santa Anita track here next week, at which Barney Schreiber, George Kose and others will be present;
