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TOP FLIGHT WINS ALABAMA STAKES EASILY i . Adds 2,225 to Her Earnings Which Now Total 73,125 Brilliant Whitney Filly Canters to Defeat Parry and Laughing Queen in Historic Saratoga Race . Sandy Bill Accounts for Purse Race SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 17. Top Flight, greatest winner of her sex of all time, again carried the C. V. Whitney colors to a glorious victory this afternoon when she galloped off with the historic old Alabama Stakes, which had its first running in 1872. The prize carried a net value of 2,225 to the winner, and it brings Top Flights total to 73,125. Her only defeats in her racing career came in the running of the Wood Memorial at Jamaica and in the Classic at Arlington Park. This was the first start of Hhe daughter of Dis Done and Flyatit since her defeat in the Classic, and it was one of her easiest victories. Parry, from the Green-tree Stable, was the one to race to second place, with W. R. Coes Laughing Queen, third, and Willis S. Kilmers Dark Charmer the only other starter in the small company. The Alabama attracted a big mid-week crowd and there was riotous applause for the filly when Workman brought her back-to the scale. With little delay at the start, the four got away in excellent alignment. Coucci at once went out to force the pace with Parry and when Workman had Top Flight in full stride he simply rated her along behind the daughter of Peter Pan. Laughing Queen was running third, with Dark Charmer in the rear. This order was maintained all through the back stretch and Coucci was setting a fast pace when the first quarter was run in " -:23, the half in :47, and the six furlongs B in 1:12. EASED UP AT END. It was after leaving the back stretch that Parry showed signs of tiring, and Top Flight had gained on her, but it was without urging on the part of Workman. At the head of the stretch she was alongside the Green-tree filly and then past with the utmost ease. A furlong out the race was over and all through the final stages Workman was eas- ing her up to be home winner by four" m lengths. Laughing Queen had raced third all the way and was a half dozen lengths back of Parry, but four lengths before Dark Charmer. Top Flight made her first appearance of the year in the Wood Memorial, in which she was beaten. She followed that by winning the Acorn, Coaching Club American Oaks and the Arlington Oaks. Then her second defeat came in the Classic. By reason of a report that the daughter of Dis Done was not exactly herself, many were of the opinion that she might be beaten by Parry this afternoon and that was a reason for a particularly liberal price being laid against the queen of the turf. STEEPLECHASE WINNER. Glaneur was a comparatively easy winner of the short course steeplechase over Blabber, with Bo Ballot finishing a distant third and the hunter, Steinite, ridden by the amateur, F. T. Greene, the only other to complete the course. Sun Wrack made a bad landing three fences from home to unseat W. Rea, and Melita, while close in the contention, unseated E. Wolfe at the front of the field Liverpool at the second turn of the field. Bo Ballot was the one to dash into an early lead, but before a turn of the course had been completed he had tamed down considerably and then it was Glaneur took up the running to lead for the remainder of the journey. Crossing the line he was seven lengths to the good. Sims, who had the mount on Blabber, rated him along far back of the pace for the first turn of the field and he closed some ground when called on, but he could not seriously threaten the winner, while it is possible he would have been third instead of second had it not been for the mishap of Sun Wrack, which was going well in second place when he unseated Rea. Bo Ballot, after his exhibition of early speed, was beaten fifty lengths by the first two, while Steinite was always far back of the company and blundering at some of the fences, though he completed the course. Fourteen plater juveniles gave George Cassidy considerable trouble in the first race and finally it was Joseph E. Wideners Continued on twenty-first page. TOP FLIGHT WINS ALABAMA Continued from first page. Guardian, which had been banished to the outside of the stalls, that proved the winner. Satin Shoes raced to the place, and True Romance barely saved third from Brown Erne. The start was a bit straggling, but the. outside horses in the stalls were off well and Garner quickly rushed Guardian into the command, coming over slightly as he did so. Brown Erne was close after the son of Stefan the Great and then came Bel Tempo and Fly On. Guardian gradually: drew out from Brown Erne and Bel Tempo was soon doing her best to hold her position in the company, while Satin Shoes was beginning to move up slightly. After making the turn for home,. Guardian came away readily until he was over the line the winner by four lengths. Satin Shoes had outfinished the others to take the place by a length from True Romance, one that came with a belated rush to earn third from Brown Erne by a head. J. H. Louchheims Sandy Bill, the son of Wise Counsellor and Sweet Mary, gave a startling exhibition of speed in the five and a half furlongs of the fifth race, for juveniles, when he dashed into a long lead that carried him the first quarter in :22, and into a lead that was to see him safely home. Repaid, from the Quincy Stable; raced to second place and it was W. R. Coes Orphean that was a distant third before Moppet. Quel Jeu was the one to chase after Sandy Bill in the early stages and he would prob-abily have shared in the purse division had it not been that; leaving the back stretch, he ran out and he was still running out when the stretch turn was reached. Can-toria was running third at that time, but he weakened badly and it was in the stretch that Orphean moved into second place and Repaid was chasing after him. Then, in the final eighth, the Coe colt in turn weakened and Repaid, finishing strongly, ran past him to be an easy second. ; - ;
