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MORE MUDDY TRACK RACING ] RAIN AFFECTS SARATOGA TRACK UNFAVORABLY + BUT ATTENDANCE IS GOOD. Star Jasmine Is Added to the Delaware Handicap and Captures It — Cosmic Suffers His First Defeat and Runs Third. ■ " I Saratoga. N. V.. August 8. — .4 ir tl card and the prom lite ol fair weather accounted for an unusually j good attendance at tin- track today and. although i Ike going ~-1 i 1 1 remained slow, following another rain last night, some excellent raeiaa; resulted. | Favorites about managed to hold their own. The Delaware Handicap, at one mile for three ear-olds • an. i over, attracted ■ good tieid ami Major T. C. j McDowells Star lasaiiae, aa added ■tarter, was j 1 returned the winner. Gainer, on tbe strength 01 bis clean ciii victorj .it Belmont Hark, wast Installed lir-1 choice, hut ran ■ dull race and was never prominent. Mi Iaggart rode hiui hard throughout, I. hi t lit- going was «ioa and ruppy and evidently j unfavorable to him and be Bnished unplaced. Ike , winner. St:ir Jasmine, ran hi tbe middle of ine track while going down I he hackstretch alter beta* out run for Ibe Brsl llm c qnsrtr m Martin made his move on the far tarn, where the two tender*, Han- ii and Montremc began to tire. Bad the mare peedilj caught and pasaed them, thea drew away in!.. :, ioua lead in the final eighth ot a mile. Today . tbe thirteenth running of the Delaware Handicap, the coodeuxed burton of arhleh is as follows: Vear Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time 1901 BIim-k 3 lis Ska a 21,810 i:47-:. i mi.! i Uucti la .1 lis "idem 2.305 1:38 i:mi.; ciiMcraek 3 102 Gaanon J. ton 1:41% i!in Moll] Brant.. .4 112 Lyue 2,." 35 1 ::.!• ■-. i. mi:, ioiv Brant.. .5 113 W. Knapp .. j.2 »»i 1:38% I JUKI Dandelion ....l I2W Sewell 1.835 I .- Pt4 7 Vails ". 90 Beckman ... 2.200 ms iUUM Beaueoup 3 00 McCabey ... 530 1:40% Ittflfl Field Mouse..:; its McCahev ... 1.3SS 1:42% 1010 sir J. Jobnson.5 124 V. Powers .. 2,843 1:40 loi:; Lahore 5 112 BoreJ 2,285 1 :::: K mil Tartar t Im W. IT. Taylor 1.055 1:37% 19ta Star Jasmine.. 6 105 E. Martin... 1,060 1:43% No racing in 1011 and 1012. sinic was the medium of an attempted killing by tbe western delegation, hut be failed badly, landing ii Lad third at the linisli. Ileione. which had Uceti Ibe lead .it the start, won easily over Pesky, which was closest in i.ursuit throughout, Cosmic" s i |M or race roaM perhaps be ascribed to the track, as he failed to sh iw his usual high turn of early speed and Boundered ahoat all the way while going : down the bnekstretek. Favoiitcs accounted for the tirst two races when i Conning Tuwar and Swish led their respective op-|ioin - tits I une. The former, which is in rare good I form at Dreamt, ipiickly opened a lead which he • maintained to the finish. It marked his third I stiaimit victory hen. Swish had no difficulty in the • steeplechase. Racing into the lead in the second I turn of the field he was nevei in serious troulde. . .Mm 1 1 in • aad Bixon Park fell during the running of the race. Uay Maker, trained by K. W. lleffner. recently n instated by the Jockey Club stewards, found the . going to his liking in the tilth race and scored I his second victory of this year. The old horse ■ showed the niof I speed ill the early Bart of the - race, but was content to follow Groaveaor to the ■ .stretch, where he easily pased the latter, irosvcnoi-was r inclined to bear out oat the stretch turn and I lust some around at that point, despite Henrys i inmost elf. its p. keep him in. Then- are seventeen horses on the schooling list i inre. V. T. Anderson was an arrival from Toronto, . where he had been for the paal week confined in a i h.ispilal suffering from an attack of gall stones. . His horses will reach here tonight or tomorrow. Nominations for the Grab Bag Handicap arc due ■ August 10. I resh arrivals from New York an noted daily • and the sport will soon assume large proportions. . The bad weather of the past week kept incite i. tew away. Work-oats at Saratoga on Sunday over a Baddy F track were: Broom Flower — Three-quarters in 1:1!. Broom Straw — Five-eighths in 1:08. aura -Five-eighths in 1 : ttj. Carlton :. Half mile in 54%. i .li.-i Bell 1 Ive eighths in 1 O0. Distant Sh. re llali mile in 55. HI liiod Five i ighths in 1 :» 5. Knver Key —Hall mile in 52%. lei mock- Mile in 1 :5I . Joe Blair -Three eighths in 38s .. Kask.skia Mile in 1:52%. Kurftiagi* Half mile in 52%. Landslide I luce -ipiai lei s in l:Ll. I I Marshall Mile in 1 :.",::. l.u In ii. Kive-eighths in 1:08. Meeting Ihmse 1 i eighths in 1 :I7. Sam Slick Half mile in 52. Sand Miiish live. iuln lis in 1:10. Sevillian -live ■ iulrdis m ] : ls. Sbarimbooter Half mile in 55. Sir Vivian hive-eigbths in 1:04%. Star Jasmine Mile in l :50%. Supreme Three-quarters in i :-■.. the Ciiriin I Halt mile in 52%. flic Iimi Mil.- in 1 :53. I inkle Bell -Five-eighths in 1 :«m:. Tom Klward — Three eighths la 40. i atari Hall mile in 55. Worlds Wonder — Mile la 1:51%. Saratoga work-oats tins morn ins mi a slow track k Included the following: Alpena 1 1 1 1 • -quart rs in 1 :-::. Arch Plotti r Half mile in 52%. Black Coffee Five-eighths in 1;7J Boanie Tess Three-quarters in i.lJ. Hringharat Half mil- in 51. Chuckles -Three-quarters in 1:20. Clapper Hill Five eighths in 1 :0ft. Cv Merrick I Ive eighths in 1 :07%. Iladdj s t h i e Hal; mile in 53 Cilia Kiiiua Halt mile ill 51 II, dee Mile m 1 :..l. Hendrie Three-quarters in 1:22. Hester ITyian- Thr piarters in 1:20%. Holiday Hall mile in ."ill ■-,. Housemaid Half utile in 50%. laidv Teresa Hiilf mile in .",i-,. I. like -Half mile In 52. Vlenlo Park Half mile in "1 . Klgbt Sti k Three-quarters in l.lv. one Step -Half mile in ."::. irmesdalc fhree-quartera in 1:20%. Pollux I hree elrhtfu in 38%. Pat In Call 1 iv, ,:hths in l:t7 . Begrel Mile and an eighth in 1 :M L Sam Jinks .ii Five-eighths in 1: »T--.. T. Sand Man -Five-eighths in 1:06. Skv Pilot — Five-eighth- in 1:0.",-.. stir lp — •"Ire-eighths in 1:07%. Striker flue. |U hi. rs in 1 :l :. Sim ess — Tkree-quarteri in 1:2. Vermont — Three ipiii iters in 1:23. Wanda Pltaei Half mile in 52%. Woodward— Half mile in 51.
