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J. B. RESPESS UNCOVERS GOOD ONE, Cincinnati Turfman and His Friends Bring Off Coup with Louise Welles at Saratoga. Saratoga. N. Y.. August 11. J. B. Kespess brought off a good thing In the last nice, won by his hay filly, Louise Welles, by Dick Welles Flora I ise. He got on 5 at 100 to 1 -and 0 to show at :: to 1. W. 1-5. Applegate, Jr., backed the filly with everybody who -would take a bet and is believed to have won at least 5,000. Leo Mayer, who was at Tom Shaws side when Kespess sent in a commission of 5 straight and third, against which Shaw laid 00 and 0. Mayer, after betting Jeorge Bose 0 straight. 0 for place anil 00 to show, tipped off Willie Applegate. Ixnilse Wulles led from the break to the finish and was going easily at the end. She was probably best, vet was favored by the interference which Amelia Jenks and Democrat met with from the half-mile ground to the middle of the homestretch, where thev got through. Democrat almost had his neck bowed from being pulled off horses all around the turn. He is a good colt and may have been the best in the field. In the first and fourth races the chances of Dreamer and Zipango were destroyed at the half-mile ground. Simple Honours backed up In front of Dreamer and made Butwell pull back and go to the outside. Zipango moved up from last place on the rail and was checked by an exceedingly rough deal. Pins and Needles was almost as badly treated. The rough riding from the half-mile ground to the homestretch is not only an obstruction to true and honest racing, but is absolutely terrifying. Unless it be checked a serious accident appears inevitable and there is no excuse for it, inasmuch as the track is exceptionally wide. Jimmie Kowe. who used to train Turncoat, expressed confidence that the Keene castolT would win easily today, if he got away from the post with his company. Tom Welsh said it would be only a canter if the Voter gelding would break with the others. Both were mistaken, so were many others who backed Turncoat and were sanguine that they were simply betting that he would get away from the post. He was prominent for three furlongs and then receded like a rank counterfeit. Tom Welsh is disgusted with Petticoat. She looks well and works fast enough to beat nearly all the horses here. In races she is quite different. She worked for todays race in 1:53, and, according to Welsh, ran in 1:5S. After this meeting she will be sent to the farm of her owner. II. P. Whitney. Jimmy Bowe has twenty-eight yearlings at Sheepshead Bay and they are such a line-looking lot that many turfmen declare there must be a proportion of good ones among them that will make the Keene two-year-olds of 1010 extremely formidable. Speaking of them, Kowe said: "They aru certainly good looking and I hope they will turn out as well as they look." They are by Disguise, Delhi, Voter, Wildmint and others. Every horse at Castleton is represented. There is also one by Hamburg and one by Adam. Sweep will start tomorrow if the track is suitable. He worked three-quarters in 1:15 yesterday. Whether he will go to the post for the Hopeful Saturday will depend on how lie acquits himself and -omes out of tomorrows handicap. It is probable that all the prospective starters in the Hopeful will get their final preparation working or racing tomorrow. There are eighty-one horses carded for the six races to be decided tomorrow.
