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Grand Union Brings Out Seventeen Quick Lunch Has Porterhouse, Donnajack, Artismo as Rivals Bobby Brocato, Wise Pop Also In Line-Up; One Hitter Tops Seven in Saratoga Handicap By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 21. The largest, and probably best, field of two-year-olds seen here this season will meet tomorrow in the fifty-first running of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, when 17 youngsters will vie for a gross prize of 8,575, while seven of the better handicap horses meet in the fifty-first Saratoga Handicap, which will gross 8,650 if all start. The Grand Union will be the fourth of the eight races programmed, while the handicap will be the sixth offering. Under the allowance and penalty conditions of the Grand Union, Wheatley Stables Quick Lunch will have to carry top weight of 126 pounds, while Llangollen Farms Porterhouse, Mrs. S. L. Kopalds Donnajack, James Cox Bradys Artismo, Joe W. Browns Bobby Brocato, and C. H. Johann-sen, Jr.s Wise Pop, all of them stakes winners, carry 122 pounds each. Circle M Farms War Doings carries 118. In addition, Eugene Constantin, Jr.s Bushers Beam, Mrs. Constantins We Wonder, S. L. Kopalds Kopes Baby, William Helis Helioscope I and Rippish, Browns Single O., C. T. Chenerys Permian, F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.s Mielaison, Saxon Stables Sir Boss and Four-Way Ranchs Way Thorn, who have not won stakes, get in with 114 pounds each. Few Scratches Likely There will probably be a few -scratches from the Grand Union. Artismo, winner of the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth last out, was not scheduled to make his Spa debut until next Saurdays Hopeful, but worked well yesterday morning. However, he has drawn the extreme outside post position, which in a field of this size is a serious disadvantage. Porterhouse may rule a slight favorite" in what shapes up as an open betting race on the strength of his brief victory in the Saratoga Special,- from which he was disqualified after outgaming Cain Hoy Stables Turn-to. The latter is a conspicuous absentee from the Grand Union. Porterhouse had won an overnight event and the National Stallion and Christiana Stakes in his three previous outings and had missed a work before the Special because of a muddy track. No rider has been assigned, as Eric Guerin would not have been available even if not suspended, and Bill Boland, who fits him best, is recovering from an appendectomy. Winner of Three Stakes Quick Lunch owes his topweight in the Grand Union Stakes to victories in the Tremont, Wakefield and Albany Stakes, but he comes from a bad race in the Flash, which probably followed the Albany too closely. The son of Blenheim II. is strictly a front-runner, and if able to take an early lead is bold as a lion through the stretch. If made to extend himself in the early stages, he seems easily discouraged. Nick Wall will again guide Quick Lunch, who has been training smartly. Donnajack and Kopes Baby have both been racing in Chicago. Donnajack followed two scores at Belmont Park by winning the Hyde Park Stakes at Arlington, then finishing a good third in the Arlington Futurity won by Hasty Road. His stablemate boasts no such record. Hedley jWoodhouse will ride Donnajack, while Conn McCreary will be on Kopes Baby. Wise Pop and Bobby Brocato both won stakes at this meeting, but didnt look particularly like stakes horses in doing it. Wise Pop. took the United States Hotel from the discredited Swift Sword with We. Wonder a distant third. The latter came back to win an -overnight dash in good time. Bobby Brocato scored an upset over War Piper in the Sanf ord, with Way Thorn and Bushers Beam finishing third and fourth. Thanks to the disqualification of Porterhouse and the New York rule that required him to be placed last in the Special, Permian has now placed in five straight stakes. He preceded his effort in the Special by running second in the Great American, Wakefield, Albany and Sapling Stakes. No rider has been named. War Doings won two dashes rather impressively at -Delaware Park, then finished second in the Tyro Stakes in New Jersey. The others have shown little. Greentree Stables One Hitter heads the seven named for. the Saratoga Handicap and may be favored in this mile and a quarter despite his 124 pounds, which is 1 more than his small frame is built to carry in fast company. There will also be strong support for Putnam Stables Combat : Boots, who gets in with 118 pounds, and Continued on Page Fifty-Two DR. JOHN M. LEE Will saddle William Helis, Jr.s Helioscope and Rippish in the Grand - Union . Hotel Stakes at Saratoga. Crack Field of Seventeen Entered in Grand Union Quick Lunch, Porterhouse and Donnajack Go in Saratoga Race Continued from Page Four missed by inches behind One Hitter in the Merchants and Citizens Handicap at Jamaica. Since then, he chased Tom Fool in the Whitney and won an overnight mile and a furlong race. Hampton Stables Alerted, who has been sprinting and sulked in the American Legion Handicap at seven furlongs, worked kindly Thursday morning and is favorably placed at 117 pounds. If willing to give his best, the Bull Lea veteran will be extremely dangerous. Ogden Phipps Great Captain comes from a good race at a mile and a furlong and is in fine condition. At 112 pounds, he could score a surprise. The same, can be said of C. Mahlon Klines Kaster, who won two sprints here, then was a fast-finishing second to Eatontown in the American Legion. He is well-treated at 110 pounds. The Handicap field is completed by Cockfield Stables Arcave, who beat One Hitter at Belmont in the spring and gets in with 114, and William Zieglers Bit o Fate, 105. Bennie Green will ride One Hitter in place of the injured Ted Atkinson, while Hedley Woodhouse will be on Combat Boots and Conn McCreary will pilot Alerted. Nick Wall will be on Great Captain, Ovie Scurlock is to ride Arcave, and Augustine Catalano is on Kaster, as usual. Willie Lester will pilot Bit o Fate. One Hitter, who has been training well on Greentrees private track, won last years Saratoga Handicap in one of his best races.
