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MUSKALLONGES STAKE RACE 6 Takes the Catskill Stakes from Sedgefield in Easy Fashion. Rain Slows the Track and Makes the Special Race Set for Saturday Doubtful. I SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.. August 24. Another rainfall, that lasted most of Wednesday night, made the track muddy for the racing of this afternoon and upset many calculations. It also resulted in a number of withdrawals. Rain threatened for most of the day, but it did not prevent a large crowd being on hand and. in spite of adverse conditions, the sport was excellent. What was more disquieting than the muddy going for one day was the fear that the track will not Te back in its best condition for Saturday. One of the conditions for the running of the Sweepstakes for Bunting. Whiskaway, Kai-Sang and Pillory is that the track be good and there will have to be fair weather and plenty of wind and sunshine to bring the course to such a condition by Saturday. CATSKILL STAKES FEATURES CARD. The feature today was the Catskill Stakes a selling race at seven-eighths, and it fell to Bud Fishers Muskallonge. which won easily from Sedgefield, with Costigan a clcse third, a half dozen lengths before Nose Dive. The race was worth ,750 to the winner and Muskallonge came out of the running rather badly cut on the near hind leg, where he was struck by Hullabaloo just as he was leaving the barrier. Nose Dive set the early pace with Muskallonge next in the running and Hullabaloo not far away. Costigan began well and racing on the inside was showing the way to Advocate. Before the stretch was reached Nose Dive was all through and Muskallonge took the lead and drew away and, as far as he ! was concerned, the race was over. Costigan had been moving up in resolute fashion on the inside and at the head of the stretch was going so well that he appeared 1 to have a chance to win, but Merimee had 5 to pull him out to find room and then in the . drive home he was not strong enough to give 1 the three-year-old the help he needed in the 1 going. Sedgefield, always a bit slow at the start, closed up with a rush on the outside that landed him safely in second place, but lie was almost four lengths back of Muskallonge, while he only beat Costigan a half length for second place. The others were well strung out. SLEIVECOAItD IS HARD PRESSED. E. G. Soulen Sleivcconard seemed in a soft cpot in the third race when he was only op-; posed by Bit o Black, Chesterbrook and I Nugget. After leaving the barrier Johnson : took Sleivcconard into a long early lead, but at the end he was only first by the margin 1 of a head and Bit o Black was closing upon him in a fashion suggesting that with equal luck at the start he would have reversed the a result. Bit o Black was the only one to 3 give the semblance of a contest, for Chesterbrook was beaten a full fifteen lengths, while Nugget was so hopelessly out of the l- running when the stretch was reached that a a he was pulled up before the finish. The muddy condition of the track resulted of f in only three going to the post in the mile, r for fillies and mares, and a deal of the in-t- interest was lacking, with Lady Madcap, a Emotion and Polythia scratched. Those a, starting were R. J. Murphys Thimble, Polly Ann and Scotland Yet, and Thimble was an 5, easy winner. The only contest was between e, Thimble and Polly Ann, for there was no r- time in the running that Scotland Yet was it close enough to ;ut any figure, lr Thimble was away from the post first, but i- Polly Ann was soon alongside, and Fator had e. such a strong hold of her head that it appeared she could . go to the front at the first D asking, while Thimble seemed to be spent an she sped along on the inside. Fator still had Polly Ann under restraint K. until nearing the turn for home. There for or he let her go, but she did not rush to the is front as he expected. Instead she sprawled and dropped back. He went to the whip r- and drove her hard around the stretch turn, by jy but Thimble continued to draw away and at for or the end she had an easy lead. The race was IS a good one for Thimble, while the way in the lie Which Polly Ann failed under a drive was to cay the least, surprising after the promising way she had galloped through the back-g stretch under a restraining pull. J. C. Milam had all of his shipping expenses to Kentucky paid by his two-year-old "S filly Childs Play in the opening five and a sold W half furlongs dash. This filly has been un-tn able to leave the post in good style, but to-as was day Garner got her off well and she was 1 good enough to show the way from end to the he end and win with speed to spare. Hillhouso no . . . Iy. Continued on eleventh page. MUSKALLONGES STAKE RACE Continued from first page. raced second until well into the stretch, where he tired and in the general closing up of the others Evelyn Sawyer captured second place by a half length, while Avalanche beat Prima Donna a couple of lengths for third money. Then after the finish Sam Louis took some of the joy out of the score when hes bid up Childs Play from her entered selling price of ,500 to ,2C0, but she was protected and bought in by Milam for ,205. Old Naturalist was in a running mood in the second race. Then the going was in his favor. He has not often been in a running mood this year, but he atoned amply when he was an easy winner from Dry Moon, which in turn beat Toll by a length for second place. The other starters were Mercury and May Blossom and they were beaten off. Tom Welsh has been extremely patient with the sterling old son of Rabelais and Nature, but had little reward for his patience this year and in five starts he had not won a race. The old fellow has been working kindly enough. Then came the rain of last night and it was all that was needed to put him in a sweet temper. At the end of the program James Rowc saddled a pair of two-year-olds that arc sure to cut an important figure in the races that are to come. They were H. P. Whitneys Fly by Day, a chestnut daughter of Broomstick and Fly by Night, and the Greentree Stables Barbary Bush, a slashing big chestnut son of Whisk Broom II. and Cardamine. They were were first and second, closely lapped, in a three-quarters dash for maiden two-year-olds. Three lengths back of them was John E. Maddens Heremon, a son of Ulti-mus. Heremon just beat Pow Wow and Glentilt for third money. There was little to the running, for Fly by Day and Barbary Bush quickly raced into a long lead and it was just a good work-out for them. Barbary Bu3h had the inside postion and the filly was more alert in leaving the post, but he was soon with her and the pair of them raced along under restraint all the way to make a show of the others. Right at the end Kummer took hold of Barbary Bush slightly and he raced as though better than the filly, but she is a miss that belongs right up with the best of her sex that have been shown thus far. Barbary Bush is an immense colt and he will probably fine down with racing.
