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SARATOGA HAS A DULL DAY D a p Muddy Going and Inferior Horses Detract from Usual Interest. 0 Pandowdy a Swift One in Mud--Episode be Furnishes a Surprise ei Gossip of the Track. w F, a SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 23. With rather an ordinary card down for decision and the track heavy there was not a great deal of interest in the racing this afternoon. Then the entries appeared and it was announced that the big championship sweepstakes for the three-year-olds would be run. This was the topic all afternoon, y but just before the running of the last race j- there was a bulletin issued to the effect that ! if the track was not in a fit condition for the running of the race it would be postponed to until Tuesday. As a matter of fact, it would be more in keeping with weather conditions 1 to have the postponement made without any "ifs." The track was even in worse condition than yesterday, but there was-a good 0 crowd out and the sport was fairly inter- GSThe steeplechase, like so many others of the meeting, was little more than a joke and r it has been decided to declare off the other a races through the field, except the stake t races. j. SPEEDY BAND I2T LAST RACE. t For want of a- better lead, the last race 1 could be called just as good as any other. i It was a five-eighths dash for two-year-old i maiden fillies and brought together rather a c speedy band. Pandowdy, from the Greentree Stable, proved easily best and had little trouble in winning, while Scribble, a daughter of Ultimus and Amanuensis, just got up in time to take second place from Great Lady. In this race John E. Maddens Ethnea, 1 considered to have a royal chance in the going, after a flash of early speed quit all i over and pulled up a bad last. , Bud Fishers Adventuress was the winner , of the opening three-quarters dash for two- year-old selling platers from Belle of Blu-; Ridge, with Monardella, racing under the i silks of J. W. Marchbank for the first time, ; third. There was a bit of rough riding through the stretch and when Marinelli attempted to come around on the outside of Adventuress Kummer forced him out. Then changing to the inside Marinelli tried to drive his filly through there, but Kummer stopped that attempt. No claim of foul wa: made and the order of the finish was nor disturbed by the stewards. In this race i was pretty conclusively demonstrated that Suspicion is no mud runner. She was away fast, but at the end of the first quarter was floundering in the going, and before the stretch was reached had dropped back i j last place. Adventuress made the running after Suspicion was through. Kummer by his rid-: : outguessed and outrode Marinelli. ELYSIAN REFUSES JTDir. There was another steeplechase that did nothing to make that kind of racing popular when, with three starters, Mrs. F. Ambrose: . Clarks Elysian, on all form easily best of the trio, refused at the sixth jump and did not complete the course. The only othe starters were Grenadier and old New Haven. Grenadier won with ridiculous case after Elysian was eliminated. Barrett, who rode Grenadier, made no effort to catch New Haven until swinging into the back field in the second time around. There it was easy for him to race on by and once ho was in front the result was no longer in doubt. J. A. McDonalds French Furze found the soft footing favorable in the three-quarteTs of the third race. He lost little time in going to the front and once there was rushed along by Callahan until the result was settled. Sea Mint at all times held second place safe, although right at the end he was doing his best to beat Roulette by a length and Dunce Cap was a close-up fourth, with Ira Wilson leading the others. There were ten went to the post and back of Ira Wilson the others were badly strung out, with old Lena Misha pulling up in last place. Bud Fishers Brocade was one of the easiest winners of the afternoon. Her success came in the five-eighths dash for maiden two-year-old fillies and at the end Kummer was easing her up eight lengths before Wigwam and the latter only beat Contour a head for second place. The others in the field were Waterfeather, Miss Belle and Activity, and they followed in the order named. There was really little to the contest, for after Kummer got Brocade away well she rushed to the front In the first eighth and, taking a long lead, was under restraint all through the stretch, with Kummer looking back. There was a surprise in the fifth race when Continued ou twelfth page. SARATOGA HAS A DULL DAY Continued from first page. A. S. Woodcliffes Episode, finishing with a great rush through the stretch, got up in time to beat Cap Rock and Trevelyan home, with Billy Barton fourth. Back of him came Violinist and Bridesman. Violinist and Cap Rock made the running, but before the stretch was reached Violinist had enough and dropped back. At the same time Trevelyan closed up resolutely and for an instant looked like the winner, but Episode found room on the inside to come through with his winning rush, while Cap Rock stuck it out to savo second place by a nose. Billy Barton, after being in third place while going down the backstretch, met with some interference in the stretch and tired badly, while Bridesman had scant speed and was outrun all the way. There was an unusually largo Friday attendance, many followers of racing from New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other points in the East being conspicuous on the lawn, in the clubhouse and inspecting the horses in the paddock. Gossip was lively as to the merits of the three-year-olds which are to meet in the Special, and the friends of Bunting and Kai-Sang were lined up solidly. Pillory is the dark horse of the trio. The fact that he has not been seen in public in some time makes him the outsider of the-trio. The work of the winner of the Belmont and the Preakness has been as good as any of the candidates and Tom Healy will send a thoroughly fit horse to the post.
