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FINISHES f IRST BUT LOSES Shoal Disqualified After Captur ¬ ing Sprightful Selling Stakes Scratches Riddle Card Jockey JockeyRodriguez Rodriguez Returns to tothe the Saddle NEW YORK N Yf July 21 Racegoers here ¬ abouts have become inured to rain and the weeks racing started off with a continuance of the in ¬ clement weather which failed to keep down the attendance to any noticeable degree Scratches as usual were numerous the first race having only four starters out of the nineteen programmed The Sprightful Stakes for twoyearolds also lost two of its original five starters startersG G W Forman accounted for the Sprightful Stakes fourth on the card with Shoal but lost the purse through a disqualification The three starters ran closely bunched for the first half mile something rarely seen in races run in the mud Shoal on the outside drew away after entering the stretch but crossed over at the threesixteenth post pinching Romany off badly Farther along he impeded American Boy which was on the inside then going on to score easily A goodsized crowd immediately gathered around the judges stand and cheered both Fairbrother and McAtee riders of Romany and American Boy when they ascended the steps to the stewards stand to enter claims of a foul It marked the first disqualification of this meeting The race was worth 1740 to the winner winnerTicklish Ticklish G W Formans recent acquisition showed himself to be a racer of parts when he won the third race a handicap for threeyearolds at threequarters of a mile The King James colt after ascending in the betting scored an easy vic ¬ tory over Yonneed which had opened up what looked ike a winning lead leadJockey Jockey C Buxton is in receipt of the news that his father is seriously ill in California If his condition does not improve Buxton will make the journey there to visit his bedside bedsideYEARLINGS YEARLINGS SCARCE TB3S YEAS YEASCharles Charles F Hill who is connected with the Fasig Tipton Company has been in Saratoga for the past week looking after the arrival of yearlings AH that have landed there are a fine band of young ¬ sters said Mr Hill but I am sorry to say they are scarce There are not nearly as many on the market this year as heretofore and I should not be at all surprised to see wonderful prices paid for some of them for there are many good lookers lookersE E K Bradley has arrived In the east and after watching the Empire City racing for a few days will go to Saratoga Mr Bradley only has half of his stable at Saratoga the remainder being left in Kentucky An epidemic of laryngitis struck his stable in Kentucky By Golly one of his best two yearolds being the only horse to escape Mr Bradley says the epidemic has had a somewhat serious effect on his horses having sapped their vitality to a certain extent extentJ J F Schorr has ordered his contract rider H Lunsford to report to the stable at Saratoga SaratogaMose Mose Goldblatt will ship the division of the Whitney horses lie is racing here to Saratoga Wednesday W Knapp under contract to the same stable will also leave for the Spa at that time timeR R J Mackenzie lias been a visitor here for several days daysAl Al Goodwin the veteran California trainer is here witli two platers Miss Kruter and Miss Orb OrbJ J Hastings will ship the M L Schwartz horses to Saratoga tomorrow Jockey Joe Byrne has been engaged to gallop the string stringJockey Jockey Rodriguez made his first appearance in the saddle for a long time when he was astride Crystal Ford in the third race and received quite a bit of applause from the stand
