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ONE OF SARATOGAS MINOR STAKE RACES IN INPOINT POINT OF VALUE BUT ONE REPLETE REPLETEWITH WITH RACING INTEREST The running of the Catskill Stakes is the central attraction of the Saratoga program of this afternoon It is one of the minor closed events of the meeting but being under selling conditions 9nabling owners to prescribe the weights to be carried is usually contested by big fields and productive of heavy betting and excellent racing Last year Startling ran one of his now and then good races and won it from Bribed Vpter Slippery Elm and six more fast horses He is eligible to repeat today if able to do so In its time some exceedingly good race horses have won the Catskill such as Carbuncle Swiftmas Ascension Merry Lark Dreamer Angelus Beaucoup Ella Bryson Grover Hughes and Conning Tower all having been qualified by nature to battle for higher honors than were involved in the winning of a selling race In evidence whereof it might be pointed out that when both were twoyear olds Beaucoup shocked the confident backers of the magnificent Colin when he ran the lat ¬ ter to a head in the Eclipse Stakes at Belmont Park This year the Catskill attracted ninety three nominations and the condensed history of the race is Yar First Age Jockeys Wt Second Age Wt Third Age Wt 1901 Carbuncle 4 McCue118 Rowdy 3 104 B Frietcble3 97 1902 Swiftmas 7 Odom120 Belvlno 4 116 Red Path 5 123 1903 Highlander 4 Redfernlll Elsie I 4 106 T Msketeer 5111 1904 Ascension 5 Hildebrandi105 Old England 5 98 De Reszke 5 108 1903 Geranium 4 LynelOG Fustian 5 106 Rand Trne5101 1900 Merry Lark 4W Miller 106 Disobedient 3 99 Red Leaf 4 101 1907 Dreamer 5 W Kriappl08 Rye 4 103 Jacobite 4 103 1908 Angelus 4CH Shilling 103 Westbnry 4 107 Aletheuo 4 100 1909 Beaucoup 4 Creevylll Great Heavens 3 100 Dr Holzbg3100 1910 Pre tend 3 G Garner 99 Racquet 4 108 Restigche 5 110 1913 Ella Bryson 5J McTaggart 100 Genesta 3 102 Palanquin 3112 1914 Grover Hughes CB Marco 108 Pomette Bleu 3 102 Bac 3 105 1915 Yankee Notions 5 J Loftus 114 Mpritresor 5 110 Sea Shell 3 103 IfllC ConBfaw Tower 4 H Shilling 121 Lnrtjr Teresa 4 106 TBonTess 3r V103 1917 Killdee 3 vR Troise 94 J J Lillis 6 110 Harry Shaw 6 108 IfllS Startling 5 Tl Lykelll Bribed Voter 4 4Distance 104 Slip Elm 5108 Distance 34 mile In 1901 No racing in 1911 and 1912
