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BAD DAY FOR FAVORITES. HEAVY RAINFALL CHANGES THE SARATOGA GOING WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS. Queen Margot the Only First Choice to Score and She Only by Inches Captain Cassatt Takes Two Races with Garbage and Buckboard. ,r By J. L. Denipsey. Saratoga, N. Y., August 29. Favorites were decidedly, in .eclipse and it spelled dire, disaster for most of the attendance at the Saratoga track this afternoon. The only one not to fail was R. T. "Wilsons Queen Margot in the closing race, and her margin of victory was of the scantiest kind and only accomplished in the final stride after a strenuous drive. The changed track, as a result of a hard rain during the night and early morning hours, was responsible for many withdrawals and the undoing of the favorites. Prominent in the racing during .the afternoon were the red, white and blue silks of Capt. E. B. Cassatt, whose representatives carried ofE two of the purses and furnished extra woes -for the backers of choices, when they took Crimper and Viewpoint into camp respectively. Buckboards success was accomplished in the easiest kind of manner, but Garbage was forced to stand a terrific drive to outstay Waukeag, with the overwhelming Crimper following the pair and thoroughly spent. The Amsterdam Stakes, the outstanding offering from a monetary point of view, and worth SI. 580 net to the winner, was contested for by only five starters, with J. J. Lillis ruling a big choice. He flattered his supporters until near the end, where. Harry Shaw, holding to his task resolutely after having saved considerable ground on the turns, managed to get up to win by a scant margin. Jockey Petz made the mistake of coming wide into the stretch, which cost J. J. Lillis the race. The Amsterdam Stakes was run for the fifteenth time today and its list of winners, with other details, is here presented: Year. Winner. A.Wi. Jockey. Val. Time. 1901 First Whip ...4 111 Bullman ...,780 1:40 1002 Clonmell 3 91 Shea 11,135 1:42 1903 Virgin Soil ...3 96 H. Callahan 2,300 1:42 1904 De Reszke ...5 104 Ilildebrand . 2,785 1:42 10Q5 Canteen 4 99 W. Knapp.. 2,220 1:39and 1900. Right Royal ..4 105Sewell 1,945 1:42 1007 Grapple 5 00 Goldstein .. 1.9S5 1:39 1908 Purslane ;. ....4 100 Musgrave . 425 1:41 1909 Nimbus 4 10S C. Grand... 805 1:38 1910 Mary Davis ...4 90 Estep 1,550 1:39 1913 Ella Bryson ...5 105 J. McTagt. 805 1:39 1914 Grover Hughes.O 110 F. Keogh... 805 1:39 1915 Lady Rotha ...3 100 31. Garner.. 805 1:42 1910 B. Thistle 7 116 A. Schufgr 1,000 1:42 1917 Harry Shaw 0 100 A. Schufgr 1,580 1:43 Distance 1 mile and 70 yards in 1901. No racing in. 1911 arid 1912. The sport began with a victory for Samuel Ross "Ultimatum, making his first start since the Pim-lico meeting. Doubt as to his thorough fitness caused him to be neglected in favor of Tea Caddy and Ed Cudihee, Ultimatum showed himself to be thoroughly at home in the muddy going and won as his rider pleased from Tea Caddy. Ed Cudihee quit in the stretch. Steeplechase Race Series of Mishaps. The steeplechase, after having promised splendidly up to the last jump, culminated in Reddest finishing by himself, with Mausolus hobbling in on three legs securing second place and Bamboo, which had been remounted after falling, being awarded third place. The Quintette of starters had raced closely grouped right up to the last jump, where Grey Leg, Bamboo and Old Salt all came to grief by falling, Mausolus blundered at the same time, resulting in his fracturing his left fore leg, but Alien kept him going long enough to cross the finishing line. Later the horse had to be destroyed. For a time it looked as if all the fallen riders had sustained severe injuries, Kennedy on Grey Leg particularly, for lie remained senseless on the spot he had fallen. Stevenson, on Bamboo, was the first to round to consciousness and he immediately set about remounting and continued the race from where he had fallen. Kennedy did not recover his full thinking faculties until long afterwards in the afternoon. Another fall, resulting in nothing more serious than a good shaking up for the rider, came in the fifth race, when Collins was unseated from his mount Bar of Phoenix just as the start was affected in tile fifth race. Crimpers defeat was a hard jolt, for lie was considered next to a certainty. He was thoroughly outrun from the start, Garbage showing the way from the outset. August Belmont, chairman of tire jockey Club, made a brief visit today and will remain over to view the performance of his good colt Lucullite, that is intended to start in the Hopeful Stakes tomorrow. The acute shortage of cars to transport horses from here may result in small fields at Belmont Park for the first days of the meeting. Owners and trainers are resorting to every known means to get an early start to ship from here, but present indications are that many will have to linger in these parts until well along towards the last of next week, before they can get away. Ed Trotter Will Ship to Douglas Park. Edward Trotter has changed his plan of shipping to Havre de Grace and will go direct from here to Douglas Park, to await the opening of that meeting. J. E. Widener, G. D. Widener, J. Sanford and John E. Madden were among some of the lucky owners who managed to ship some of their consignment to Belmont Park this morning. Sam Hildreth will send those of August Belmont and his own horses to Belmont Park next Friday. James Arthur will ship Tea Caddy to Laurel next week, where lie will rejoin the others in the Arthur stable. Ed Garrison, in charge of the Mrs. Arlington racers, will ship them to Aqueduct next week. Announcement of a thirteen days meeting at the Detroit Fair Grounds, beginning September 15, was a topic of interest among a number of the horsemen here. A considerable number are awaiting more definite advices and are planning a trip there with their stables. Among the Macomber horses which have gone to JM Kentucky and which are to be in charge of trainer Murphy, are Hollister, intended for all the long distance racing; Fruit Cake, which Mr. Macomber recently purchased from Burttsehell and Zollicoffer; Walnut Hall, Verdant, Fellswoop and Sirocco. The horses are now at Douglas Park. John W. Schorrs stable deficit, embracing stake engagements, forfeits and other legitimate items Sertalning to the racing end, only is 4,052 for his aratoga campaign. The stable has only won one race during their stay here. W. C. Clancy will ship his horses after the New York.racing to Latonia for the meeting there.
