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KENTUCKY STAKES WINNER His Choice Shows Great Speed and Leads All the Way Owner R Parr Wins Two Races i with Bughouse rand Blazes Huttontrope Badly Beaten BY J L DEMPSEY DEMPSEYSARATOGA SARATOGA SPRINGS X Y August 12 The Kentucky Stakes one of the minor fixtures Imre for fillies at five and a half furlongs and having a net value of 19 0 to the winner was regarded as the tost offering on todays program and fur ¬ nished a victory for His Choice carrying the colors of J K l Ross Azurita landed in second place and La Rablee headed the others in third place The race hadta sjjljiijg clausej clausejand and ihe winner in to be sold for 25007 was Advanced 1300 by Sam Louis and was retained with an additional bid of 5 The winner was lucky to earn the vic ¬ tory f or Azurita jan as if much the best She was ridclen by the inexperienced Richcreek and the start found her totally unprepared resulting in her being away poorly She closed jvhat seemed an impossible distance and at the end was run ¬ ning fast and gamely but His Choice which had been practically the leader from the start held lengths in front of the Cuban owned filjy Joctey Musgrave who had the mount on Titania was un ¬ seated when she struck the fence asf a result of becoming involved in a mixup following Lukes Pet being shut off by Betty J on which Troxler had the mount Musgrave escaped injury and Trox ¬ ler was suspended for five days by the stewards for rpujjh riding v The colors of RaljParr which have been con ¬ stantly conspicuous during this meeting were much in evidence and representatives from his establish ¬ ment carried off a 4 doublet when Bughouse took the steeplechase and Blazes scampered tome in ad ¬ vance in the fical dash Both were favorites in the races they won BUGHOUSE A GOOD JUMFEB JUMFEBBughouse Bughouse showed himself to be a right good sort of n jumper for he stayed close to the speedy Bachelors Bliss and when the latter began tiring Bughouse dashed into the lead and won away off Bachelors Bliss showed the most speed during the early part of tlie race and took his hedges in fine style but the second round of the course found him tiring fast Toppy Nix which tried to maintain pace vithJthe lealerf rcame tovgrhf at the third jump a repetition of his last start when he fell over the same hedge in his ffort to keep close to Bachelors Blfss BlfssS S C Hildreths colors continue unsuccessful and his Arrah Go On again offended Avhen he easily succumbed to Ballyinooney in the opening race The Hildreth starter was an overwhelming favorite and led until rounding inl the stretch but when chal ¬ lenged he relinquished command with no apparent desire to dispute supremacy wjth the Hvinnen Sam Reh overhauled the others for third place placeQueen Queen of the Sea had the call in the third race which brought together an ordinary band of platers and Schnttinger who had the mount on her in lieii of Sande who was suspended yesterday by the starter for five days rushed her into the lead at once and showed the others the way until in the last sixteenth where Ensor signalizing his return to the saddle after a five days suspension brought upBene olent with a rush and won by a scant length Huttontrope was the next offending favorite to fail He showed plenty of early speed but when straightened away for the long stretch sprint lie was found wanting and War Rocket drew out to win easily from Clean Gone with Carpet Sweeper in third place placeBLAZES BLAZES BUNS FAST BACE BACEBlazes Blazes victory was accomplished in easy style Robinson got him away fast at the start and taking the load in the first eighth he only cantered in front for the remainder of the way His time of l03Vf equaled the tost of the present meeting made by his stablemate Smart Guy GuyAfter After a lapse of almost five years due to a sus ¬ pension incurred on Frederick I at Laurel Md jockey Phil Musgrave who again donned silks yes ¬ terday following his restoration to favor by the Jockey Club made a reentry to the ranks of winning riders by piloting his contract employers Ballymooney to victory in the opening race The rider who in the past ranked with the tost in the couutrv and had scored in numerous big races was sincerely touched by the ovation he received on his return to the scales Not alone was the demonstra ¬ tion confined to the spectators in the stand for the many other riders assembled in the jockeys quarters greeted Musgrave boisterously and noisily on his return in their midst Guess the old man still has it in him replied Musgrave to Loft us nnd Knapps bantering and I am glad that my fear that I would need an Lapnrentice allowance to cope I Continued OH second page KENTUCKY STAKES WINNER Continued from first page vith yon youngsters was groundless groundlessJockey Jockey F Williams appeared to have sustained Kvore injuries by the heavy fall he received when his mount Toppy Nix hlundered at the jump oppo vitethe clubhouse but after being carried off the field and about to bo placed in the ambulance he regained his senses and showed no ill effects taking KII interest in the last part of the race and wit ¬ nessing it from where he fell Toppy Nix continued riderless for the entire course and brought up in third place placeThe The youngsters which Jerry Carroll is buying for 11m account of J G Leiper Jr of Philadelphia will IM shipped shortly to Belmont Park where they will be prepared for racing and wintered Those bought by Edward Nash for J J Englishs account will also l e sent to Belmont Park ParkMinto Minto II and a twoyearold by Hastings were transferred today to W V Thraves ownership and will in future l e trained by Kay Spence Thraves secured the horses on private terms from P T Chlnn ChlnnThe The program Iwok for the six days of racing of the Blue Grass Fair arrived here this morning and was scanned closely by many of the owners who intend taking part in Kentucky racing next fall Th yurse offerings are the most pretentious ever attempted it a fair and range in value from 400 to 000 Several owners here will ship to Lexing ¬ ton in time to take part in the abbreviated meeting It L Baker and W H Shelley will serve as the stewards and Harry Morrissey onetime starter for all Kentucky tracks will again preside at the bar ¬ rier rierLooking Looking Up is probably done for as a racer She oime out of her race Monday in a bad way as a result of numerous kicks she received while at the barrier Her chief injury seems to be to her right hock and for a while this morning it was thought that she would have to be destroyed but on advice of veterinarians wlio were called in to examine her it was decided to let further time determine the full extent of her injury Looking Up was regarded highly by Miller Henderson HendersonCommander Commander J K L Ross returned this morning from a brief visit to Montreal MontrealThe The proposed race meetings at Montreal an ¬ nounced to begin August 1C are said to be meeting with obstacles that may eventually lead to aban ¬ donment of the project projectJockey Jockey G Corey had a small bone broken in his hand this morning while exercising a twoyearold twoyearoldBilly Billy Kelly the sporting writer of a Buffalo piper for whom the J K L Ross crack was named was among todays visitors visitorsFollowing Following the dispersal of tlie band of racers con ¬ signed by W S Kilmer to Friday nights sales trainer Simon Healy will return to Sun Briar Court and devote his attention to the Kilmer yearlings numbering eighteen head Sun Briars next start will likely be in the Mer ¬ chants Stakes and Exterminator will be reserved for tiie Saratoga Cup CupEmil Emil Herz bid up Benevolent 300 over an entered price of 700 after her victory in the third race ami secured her
