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Ancestor Tallies at Saratoga Route Beats Freedom Bell After Long Struggle Favored Dark Count Winds Up Last as Ogden Phipps Homebred Takes Handicap SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 25. The five horses meeting in the featured Fort Edward Handicap at Saratoga today had won three races from a total of 63 starts this year. Three of them, including Saxon Stables favored Dark Count, had not won in 1952, but Ogden Phipps Ancestor, the winner, had scored in one of his 17 previous starts. Nick Wall got the four-year-old son of Challedon Bloodroot, by Blue Larkspur, home a neck before Joseph M. Roeblings Freedom Bell, the early pacemaker. It was another four lengths back to Warbern Stables Sickles Sound, who led Lazy F Ranchs Out Point by three and a half lengths. Five lengths farther back, at the end of the field, came the favored Dark Count, who lost his action! completely at the three-furlong pole, but galloped back apparently sound. Ancestor paid 0.60 and stepped the mile and a furlong in 1:52. His performance was witnessed by a crowd of 12,053. Freedom Bell went to the front at the start of the Fort Edward and quickly opened a daylight lead over Ancestor, while Dark Count was in third place on the rail in the run around the clubhouse turn and into the backtsretch. Sickles Sound was a close fourth, while Out Point couldnt keep up and was soon switching his tail when Benny Green asked him to hurry. Dark Count Props Back Dark Count began to fall back in the run down the far side and appeared in distress after rouding the far turn, where Out Point began to move up. on him. Curving for home, Wall sent Ancestor up to challenge Freedom Bell and the Challedon colt took a slight lead at the furlong pole, then responded willingly to his riders urging, inching away in the final yards. The leaders duel drew them clear of Sickles Sound, who ran an even race, while Out Point had no opposition for fourth money, though obviously unwilling to extend himself. Hedley Woodhouse compiled a double in the saddle, winning the fourth race on Alexander Socolof s Black Currant arid the fifth on Jake Shers Home Boy. The Canadian-born rider did a nice job of rating on the lead with Black Currant, giving the Cassis gelding a breather coming to the stretch that stood him in good stead when Sariset Farms Metopia made a belated rush in the stretch. Black Currant paid .70 and ran the seven furlongs in 1 : 26 . Home Boy worked - his way between horses, then drew out in the stretch to score by two lengths over C. T. Chenerys Travertine, who led Maine Chance Farms Steady Jet another three lengths. J. W. Nizleks favored Tornabuoni was a belated fourth after dropping back to last place a stride or so after the break. Home Boy paid .60 and stepped the five and one-half panels in 1:07. Jockey George Cardoza, swarthy Cape Codder of Portugee extraction, rode his fourth winner in as many starts at this meeting when he took the opener on Morris ZeiHels Mara Moo, who finished a length and a half before Gem Stables Little Colleen after leading from the start of the six furlongs. Mara Moo paid and combined with Edward Seinfelds Fanelis Alley for a 0.40 Daily Double.
