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WHITNEY WINS A DOUBLE. RICKETY AN EASY VICTOR OVER MIDWAY IN THE HURON HANDICAP. Ruth Law Takes tho Last Race of tho Afternoon Buck Shot Wins His Race Jockey Moles - worth Has a Lucky Escape. By J. L. Dempsey. Saratoga, N. Y., August 21. Harry Payne Whitneys colors were carried to victory for the first time at this meeting, when his good colt Rickety showed the way to the others starting in the Huron Handicap at a mile and three-sixteenths, worth ,925 net, and featuring the racing offering this afternoon at the Saratoga course. Ricketys victory was accomplished in the easiest fashion possible, Robinson having him well under restraint at the end and had begun easing him up during the final eighth. The Western colt, Midway, showed an improved performance over the one which he made against Omar Khayyam and beat Ticket quite easily for second place. There were five starters in the race, Stargazer and Bella Desmond comprising the unplaced. Star-gazer showed the most early speed, but retired after Midway had clung to him in tenacious fashion for three-quarters. Midway fell a ready victim when Rickety challenged, but kept an even pace during the stretch racing and appeared to be gaining again on the winner, but this was the result of Kobiusou easing the winner up. The Huron Handicap was established in 1901 and its list of winners, with other details, is here presented: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1901 The Rhymer 98 II. Cochran. ,000 2:03 1902 Sombrero 120 T. Burns .. 1,755 2:01 1903 Shorthoso 119 Hnnck 1,985 2:02 1904 Fort Hunter .....122 Hildebrund 2,000 2:01 1905 Bedouin 115 Shaw 1,795 2:00 1900 Content 113 W. Miller. 1,705 2:00 1907 Kennyetto 100 W. Miller. 2,300 2:00 1908 Sir John Johnson 95 Sweet .... 500 1:58 1909 Ch. of Chesterbk 87 Mulligan .. 1,170 2:00 1910 Countless ...109 T. Koerner. 2,375 1:59V; 1913 Cock o the Walk.123 J Glass... 1,030 1:59 1914 Roumer 128 J. Butwell. 2,200 2:00. 1015 The Finn ... 122 J. Butwell. 1,050 2:03 1910 Spur 130 J. Loftus... 1,425 1:58 1917 Rickety 120 F. Robson. 1,925 2:00 No racing in 1911 and 1012. Distance 1 1-4 miles in 1914. .The Whitney colors made it a double for the afternoon when Ruth Law, in the closing race, scored a lucky win over Rose dOr. The latter ran as if best, but early interference she suffered from, caused her to be forced back, where the winner had a good lead from the outset and her early advantage enabled her to last long enough to outstay the fast coming Rose dOr. James Butlers Initial Saratoga Success. Another pretentious stable to score its long der Iayed initial victory here was that of James Butler, whose Paddy Whack accounted for the. mile selling Handicap, in which he carried 125 pounds and conceded weight to all the other srarters. He was entered for ,500 and was bid up to ,800 by W. II. Pearce, but was protected with the customary advance. Paddy Whacks victory was regarded as a lucky one, for had Allen, on Wise Man, been of any material assistance to his mount, Wise Man would have been the victor. The steeplechase resulted in a hollow victory for the well-supported Man Slayer from Pigeonsthorpe, with Rock Fish in third place. Captain Parr was one of the starters, but he fell on the flat after lie had blundered at the fifteenth jump. At the hedge previously Man Slayer and Captain Parr both were in imminent danger of tumbling, but recovered from their blunder. After Captain Parr had come to grief, Hayncs steadied Man Slayer and sent him over the last two hedges in careful fashion, for at that stage it appeared he would win to a certainty, barring a fall. Rough riding was conspicuously noted this afternoon and, as a result of it, nn accident developed with the running of the third race in which a big band of ordinary two-year-olds started, what threatened for a brief space to be attended with serious results. The interference which came immediately after the start reached its height when approaching the last turn and at this point Moles-worth, on Pinehurst, was caught in a wedge and thrown heavily. Several of the rear division stepped on him and struck him witli their hoofs in passing the prostrate rider, for a time being footballed considerably. He was removed to tiie jockeys quarters iu an ambulance, where medical attention was immediately provided. After regaining consciousness, he showed no grave injuries beyond several bruises about the back and a scalp wound. He will probably be kept out of the saddle for several days. Most of the field of seventeen starting, had absolutely no opportunity because of interference to show to their best. Among the sufferers were Butcher Boy. He was in second place when the crowding began and was shuffled back to last in the space of fifty yards. Butcher Boy was a good thing and promised well until he was knocked out of any chance. A big field started in the opener, won by Buck Shot, which was much the best, as he had to come from a long way back in the last half mile to flash into the lead. The pleasant weather here this afternoon was in a good measure responsible for the large attendance that witnessed the sport. The stewards have under investigation the action of jockey Smith in yesterdays steeplechase of pulling his mount back out of contention. The riders explanation of his action is that he thought the horse had broken down. J. C. Milam has disposed of, on private terms, the colt Tanlac to J. E. Madden, Garonne to F. Mannix and H. C. Basch to M. Hirsch. Fire Commissioner ISond Adams of New York, who recently received the nomination for president of the board of aldermen, was among todays interested visitors. E. R. Bradley Buys North Star III. A. K. Macomber has sold the three-year-old colt North Star III. to E. R. Bradley, owner of Idlehour Farm at Lexington, Ky.. on private terms, but said to be a big figure. This horse is by Sunstnr Angelic by St. Angelo, a son of St. Simon. He was the best two-year-old In England in 1910 and won the Middle Park Plate. Thomas Welch, acting for Joseph E. Widener, made an offer of 0,000 for North Star III., after the race, but the offer was refused. The horse did not stand training in this country and was sent to H. P. Headleys Beaumont Farm, where he is now quartered. William Smiley Corbett. was among the arrivals this morning from Cldcago and will be here for the remainder of the racing. The demand for reservations on trains and steamboats for August 30, by those intending to leave Continued on second page. WHITNEY WINS A DOUBLE Continued from first page. here that day, has grown to such proportions that it will "be necessary to run special trains. Tlie I, and H. boat line from Albany to New York will press their Queen of the Fleet into service for a special trip that night, for the accommodations of racing folks. The horses of T. C. McDowell, excepting the two-year-old colt American Eagle, will be shipped to Lexington immediately after the racing here. American "Eagle will be taken to Belmont Park and started in the Futurity and after its running be shipped to Lexington, where he -will engage in the Breeders Futurity, to be run for at the Kentucky Association track next fall. According to advices received this morning Frenchy Brooks, who has been hi the employ of T. C. McDowell for a long time, has taken over the horses Owned by Middleton and Jones, the Louisville sportsmen and will train the racers. John W. Klein and Penrod, owned by John W. Schorr, have been taken up and are now in training, with a view to racing them at Lexington, along with about six two-year-olds that have been rested at Douglas Park. Mr. Schorr narrowly missed dis-. posing of. Harry Kelly yesterday. The Memphian wanted; 0,000 for him and the intended purchaser, a; wealthy, publisher, had authorized his represen-laflVf .itoiMJay 5,000. The deal would have been coiisipnafed -had Harry Kelly won. Master "McGrnth was claimed before the first rare by W. Clancy for ,030. Bob Smith had a claim -iii for ,027. The minimum claim for the horsft was ,025.25 when Smith was asked why he bid ,027 he said it was all the money lie had, but he would have put in another nickel, could he have found "it in his jeans. . . . u P. Ambrose Clark had given up hope of gettipg either Falmouth "or Torero back to tile races. Both are badly broken down.
