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WHITNEY COLOES TO FORE BLACK BROOM IS RETURNED WINNER OF GRAND UNION HOTEL STAKES Bradleys Choice Is Second and Should Have Won S C Hildreth Takes Charge of the Bel Belmont mont Horses H D Brown to Retire Saratoga X y August 20 Harry Payne Whit noy won his first stake race of the Saratoga meeting when Itlack Broom was returned the winner of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes the feature of this after nouns card So lightly were the chances of Black Bnwm regarded that she was the outsider of the live that ran and was quoted at 80 to 1 After breaking in front she dropped right hack and was last to the stretch where she closed with a rush The win was a lucky one however as Bradleys Choice should have won the race and would have done so hut for making a wide stretch urn urnThe The tallied history of the Craml 1nioii Hotel Stakes is as follows Year Winner Wt Jockey Val Time TimeJSHIl JSHIl King Hanover HOT Hums S C975 1 102 Grey Friar 114 T Burns ltM 113 1903 Highball 117 Fuller lOSlft 114 114HJ4 HJ4 Siglight 110 II Phillips 8250 315 1905 Battleaxe 117 Hedfern SCTO 114 114Iwr Iwr Pcnarris 114 Shaw 825011 825011r07 r07 Colin 127 W Miller 825O lis 1008 Edward 122 OH Shila 8250 115 115IIO IIO Chickasaw 117 Page 1115 113 110 Iron Mask 114 Notter 8040 112 112rH8 rH8 Black Broom 107 Ambrose 2440 o racing in 1011 and 1012 1012The The only favorites to win were Penobscot an odds on choice in the steeplechase and Absconder also at short odds In the hunters race The latter was ridden by Tommy Wright and won easily The handicap at throequarters was won by the 15 to 1 chance Islrose which led all the way and the handicap at one mile by Jawbone which showed decided improvement 4 Thore was much rough riding today Plate Glass coring Board Notoriety and Tea Enough being among the uifTerers uifTerersJockey Jockey Biitwell was back in the saddle today but it may be for today only Robert Davies was anxious to have Butwcll ride Plate Glass and L Garth telegraphed William Garth who is in New York asking for his permission to ride Plate Glass and this was granted Biitwell also rode in several other races but the arrangement is only temporary temporaryII II I Brown general manager of the Laurel track left here last night and reports have it that he has returned lo Laurel where he now makes his home If there is anything In the rumor that was circulated about the track this afternoon Browii will not have anything to do with the Laurel meeting If the Jockey Club grants that track dates for the month of October It is given out on fairly good authority that several prominent members of the Jockey Club will buy Browns Interest and run the track It is said that those Interested include August Belmont Andrew Miller and James Butler ButlerThe The stallions Uncle and Zens the property of the late Charles Kohler which will be sold at auction at Sheejishead Bay together with the stallions Superman Muster Robert and Charles Edward and fortyfour broodmares yearlings and sucklings on September 4 will leave Ixtndon on August 23 bound for this country on the steamship Minneapolis in charge of B E Burnett There has l een considera ¬ ble speculation as to what price Uncle will com ¬ mand at the sale and it is figured that he will bring close to 75000 It s said that several private bids of over 50000 have been refused refusedSam Sam Hildreth the wellknown trainer who arrived here from France a few days ago took charge of the horses of August Belmont this morning morningPayne Payne Whitney and his family arrived here this morning and engaged two cottages cottagesJockey Jockey Phil Musgrave was back in the saddle again today as his live days suspension was at an iid Although the meeting has only run sixteen days Musgrave has been on the suspended list for eleven days daysPalanquin Palanquin has proved such a disappointment that J Talbott today disposed of him at private sale lo C L Appleton a wellknown gentleman rider who will educate Palanquin for steeplechase racing Mr Appleton has ridden many races at the hunt meetings about New York and generally had the mounts on all the horses from the Greeutree Stable
