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CESAREWITCH STAKES TODAY Twenty-Two Carded to Start in Noted English Race Buch-leigh Favorite. Special Cablegram. NEWMARKET, England, Oct 13. Twenty-two horses are carded as starters in the ninety-seventh renewal of the Cesare-witch Stakes here tomorrow. This most intriguing of all distance handicaps, run over the almost straight course of two miles and a quarter, has a gross value of 2,500. Apart from its value few races on the English calendar are more sought than this historic event named for a head of the Russian Royal family, which was deeply interested in the English turf a century ago. Since his victory in the Doncaster Cup last month, Lord Gianelys Buchleigh, 125 pounds, top-weight of tomorrows field, has been a strongly played choice. At Doncaster, the four-year-old son of Sansovino and Surbine scored at the expense of a former Cesare-witch Stakes winner, Enfield and the good stayer Cecil, and as he beat them in rather easy style, he is conceded an excellent chance to make it two straight in this distance special tomorrow. Buchleigh will be ridden by jockey Gorden Richards, another point in his favor. Buchleighs chief rival may be another Doncaster winner, in A. Boazmans Newton-ford, ninety-eight pounds, one of the light weights of the field, that escaped a penalty, when winning the two miles one furlong Rufford Abbey Plate last month. Newton-ford, second choice in the betting, will be ridden by the capable light weight, W. Christie. At Doncaster Newtonford easily beat Lady Helen McCalmonts Goodwood Stake3 winner. Avandale, 105 pounds, and as Boaz- mans horse has now five pounds the better of the weights, he should confirm the Don- caster form.
