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MARTINEZ TAKES MOHAWK SELLING PLATERS PROVIDE AFTERNOON OF INTERESTING SPORT AT SARATOGA. Change in Racine Tactics Proves Efficacious in Case cf Follie Levy and She Wins Handicap Feature of Program — Patronage Still Good. Saratoga. K. Y.. August 15. — Raring this afternoon was for the most part BUM Mud by soiling platers, though the Saratoga Association hnlHN ■ good mill and excellent s| ort came Ml of each race. The attendance was large, considering that Hi ly special attraction was the Mohawk Selling Stakes, and there wore several new arrivals from New York. Racing this season is tremendously popular with the natives themselves and it is notieealde that each day thev are out in goodly Makers. Am Mohawk went to Martinez, which raced in the colois of that veteran turfman. 1reston Kuroh. His ra • was a good one and. as he was liberally hacked, his victory was thoroughly popular. Martini!! was first choice, hut there was a tip abroad M Chief Kee. a Canadian three-year-old. that made him second choice. Cherryola was the one to cut out all the running. She wheeled at the start and beat the others away from the post. Jockey Shilling, who rode her. took every advantage of the break and she was in command until the turn for home. There Martinez, which had been second throughout, raced by her handily and from that point to the finish lie had things all his own way to win well in hand by three lengths. Cherryola easily saved second place and Chief Kit. after having been outrun in the early stages, was along in time to get third. The tabled history of the Mohawk Stakes is given below : Year. Winner. Vt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1!M1 Colonel ladden.. .111 Shaw ,715.1:471 1902 Port Uoval 1 »7 Shaw 1,730 1:53* i.Mi:t Sheriff hell ll.°. Fuller 2.806 1:081 1804 Hello 107 F. ONeill. . 1.985. 1:541 IMS 1alm Tree 101 W. Knapp.. 1,725 1:83 KM McKittredge fKi lamer 1.9X0 1 :•" !?. I.hit Tcinaceo 90 E. Dugan. . 1,985 1 :52» 190K Moqnette l»*i K. Iiugan.. 425 1 :545 HMD HMl Top 101 MeCahey .. UK "1:394 it+ltl Martinez 100 S. Davis ... 1,550 1:54 One and one-sixteenth miles in 11101 and one mile lu 1000. A race that was of as much interest as the Mohawk was a three-quarters-mile handicap for lillies and mares. It went to George Odoins Follie Levy, a tllly that recently suffered disqualification after she had beaten Mexonaa. Today A. Walsh, who ride Pol lie Levy, did not permit her to race off in front, but followed closely enough behind Hose Queen so that when the Hildrcth lillv was through she assumed the lead in the stretch. Right at the finish jockev Notter brought Melisaudo along with a great rush, but she failed to catch Follie Levy, though running her to a short half-length at the finish. The steeplechase of the dav was for selling platers and S. C. Hildrcth scored with Black Bridge. Tlys-tledale was second and old Grandpa third. After the race it was reported that Grandpa had broken down in the running, but the old fellow has gone wrong many times before this, only to reappear. The only accident in the race was at the thirteenth fence, when Paprika made a had lauding ami unseated English. Though the jockey was dragged some distance bi lore be could shake his left foot free from the stirrup, he escaped with some scratches. Miss Nelt was winner of the first t wo-yoar-old race, while the other went to Rlackfoot. the favorite. To win It lack foot had to show a remarkable performance, for at the start he was last of the fifteen that meed. The last race of the day saw one of the beat parishes of the afternoon when Jupiter Joe just gat up I" none out Cohort, the pacemaker. Entries were announced today for a special two-year-old race to be rim Wednesday. K. 1". Carman has named his tillv. Horizon, to go with Thomas M.uiahans Textile and S. C. Ilildroths Novelty. She will receive the customary lillv allowance of three pounds, making her weight 1 19 to 122 on the colts. It is not thought likely that Horizon will go to the post. The conditions fur the race as announced today make it ,080 each lor siarters or forfeit if declared Tuesday. It is to be at three quarters of a mile and the association will add plate 1 the value of 00. Another condition is thai the coarse shall be in good condition and that stoning shall ride Novelty. The race is virtually a luatcii between Novelty and Textile and arose out of some talk between S.C. Bildreth and K. T. Wil-M n. Jr., as a result of the .outcome of the Saratoga Special. It will be run as the tilth race of the day. The success of the present meeting has influenced memliers uf the Saratoga Association to announce their intention of making a bid for dates cuvering at least a month fur Saratoga racing in 1011.
