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BLIND BOWBOY IS BEST Easily Withstands Cattails Challenge in Spas Main Race. Muddy Track Causes Many Withdrawals in Waterboy Handicap, Pilate Walks Over for Purse. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 14. George H. Bostwicks Blind Bowboy, coming back to the races after having been away since June, was a comparatively easy winner of the Catskill Claiming Stakes here this afternoon. It was a seven furlongs dash, with a net value of ,845 to the winner, and brought out a good band of sprinters. William Ziegler, Jr.s Cattail raced to second place and the Brookmeade Stablos Helianthus was a close third, taking that par of the purse from George E. Wide-ners Sation. Torrential rains Sunday afternoon left the track deep in mud and it resulted in several withdrawals. In fact, one race, a seven furlor-gs handicap, resulted in a walkover for Andy Schuttingers Pilate. Moie rain threatened in the forenoon, but later the skies cleared and weather conditions could not have been improved upon. A crowd of generous proportions was in attendance, but a disgruntled crowd because of the walkover. The start in the Catskill was a good one and Blind Bowboy, leaving in motion, was the one to force the pace. Robertson was content to hold his slight lead in the run through the backstretch and he had the Bostwick horse under slight restraint as he was showing the way. Quel Jeu was hanging to him closely while Helianthus was forced to race further out from the rail. Sation, leaving from the inside stall, was rushed along until he was close after the leading trio. Then, as Quel Jeu tired, he moved into second place. SATION THREATENS. For an instant, going to the stretch turn, Sation threatened to come through, but Robertson had plenty left with the son of Epinard and when he permitted him to run, he shook off the three-year-old. Then Helianthus made his challenge but had no better results. All this time Cattail was steadily making up ground but it was not until the final furlong that he came seriously into the contention. The son of Sweep finished strong under a vigorous ride by Jones, but Blind Bowboy was his master and at the end he was going away, winner by two lengths. Cattail and Helianthus fought it out for the place and it was in the final strides that Cattail had his head before the Sun Flag horse. Hawk Moth, the Wheatley Stables juvenile daughter of Nocturnal and Helium, proved herself a smart sort through the muddy going when she beat rather a nice band of two-year-olds, in the opening dash at five and a half furiongs. Border Knight, from the Newtondale Stable, closed with a rush in the final furlong to take second place and Robert C. Winmills God o War just saved third from Hasty Belle. EUXINE THE WINNER. Paul B. Codds Euxine was winner over the platers that raced in the second. Max-i well Howards Orphean raced to second place and J. J. Morans St. Omer was a distant third. There was a long delay at the post, for which War Banner was largely to blame. In one of her lunges she unseated Gilbert and ran off up the chute before she was caught. Euxine was kept at her task by Wholey and swung into the stretch with a lead of four lengths. Orphean was outrunning the others in a vain effort to catch the filly and St. Omer, under vigorous riding by Malley, had headed War Banner. This was the way they came into the final furlong and, while Orphean was gaining at the end and was only beaten a length and a half, St. Omer was another seven lengths back when he took third rather easily from Georgian. Workman simply galloped Andy Schuttingers Pilate the seven furlongs in 1:32 in the walkover of the day. It was decidedly unpopular with the crowd and there were some catcalls when the chestnut gal- Continued on twenty-first page. BLIND BOWBOY IS BEST Continued from first page. loped through the stretch under restraint. This was the first walk-over since 1931 when on June 9, at Belmont Park, Sun. Meadow walked over. Like this seven furlong handicap, the Sun Meadow gallop was in an overnight race. Prior to that Little Nap walked over for a claiming stake at the Empire City Association course October 13, 1930. Then on July 23, 1930, at the same bourse there -was a virtual walkover when the only starters were Questionnaire and Awake, both sent to the post from James Butlers stable. The lajst previous walkover at the Saratoga course was on September 2, 1927, when William Ziegler, Jr.s Maelstrom had nothing to start against him. There came a score for the Greentree Stable silks in the fifth, a five and a .half furlong dash for juvenile fillies when Miss Mouse won rather handily. Sun Celtic, racing" for Mrs. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Fair Fields Stable, took second place and C. V. Whitneys Jabot barely lasted to save third from Early Light. - From a good start, Coucci at once went to the front with Miss Mouse and she was good enough to hold command throughout. Sun Celtic was heading the others and Jabot, after being a bit slow to be under way, was soon in third place. Going to the stretch turn, Robertson called on Jabot and she, for an instant, ranged alongside Miss Mouse, but she could not hold the daughter of John P. Grier and dropped back under punishment. Sun Celtic was still fighting along gamely, but Miss Mouse was too good in the. going and she was past the line winner by three lengths.
