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A Alerted Accounts For Saratoga Cup STANLEY HAZZARD Will saddle Wise Pop in the Hopeful at the Saratoga course today. McCreary Drives I Victor to Finish Bit o Fate Pegs Pace of Bull Leas Son in Slow-Run Race Oyer Fourteen Furlongs SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y . Aug. 28. Hampton Stables Alerted took : the track soon after the start of the seventy- : third running of the Saratoga Cup today ; and kept the lead throughout the mile and three-quarters, despite lugging in all the way, reaching the finish a length and" a half before William Ziegler, Jr.s Bit, oFate, who forced the slow pace. Ogden Phipps Great Captain was a half length farther back, while it was almost 40 lengths back to C. V. Whitneys Mameluke. The latter was unable, or unwilling to keep up, though most of the race was run at a rate of 13 seconds to the furlong. Conn McCreary rode Alerted and his chief task was in keeping the "irpn horse" from shutting Bit o Fate off as he tried to lug in. The son of Bull Lea, who had won the Saratoga Handicap in his last start, paid .10 straigh tand .50 to place. Bit b Fate paid .50 to place. Alerted was clocked in 3:01, while Reigh Counts track record, set in 1928, is 2:55. This was the slowest Cup, exclusive of walk overs, since Count Arthur won it in 3:02 in 1937. A crowd of 12,478 viewed the procession. Frank Stout, of Maiden, Mass., who purchased Alerted for 0,000 from Calumet Farm three years ago, netted 0,875 today, as the industrious animal brought his total earnings to 90,185 gleaned by 19 victories in 81 starts. Little to Running There was little to this cup as Alerted took command on his own initiative and McCreary was content to rate him along before Bit o Fate, Great Captain and Mameluke. The order stayed the same from start to finish, with Bit o Fate being in close quarters at the first turn as Alerted came over a bit, and again near the eighth pole. Great Captain finished well, while Mameluke failed to show anything resembling speed at any stage of the race. Jack Westrope performed a rodeo feat at the start of the Aul Sable Purse, in which Brae Burn Farms Striking Hour broke in a tangle Westrope found himself with his 1 entire body, including both legs, on the near side of the colt a stride after the start, but miraculously swung himself back into the saddle. Meanwhile, Greentree Stables favored Gotta Go was engaged in a pace duel with Christiana Stables Menemsha. Gotta Go shook that colt off at the head of the stretch and galloped home four lengths be-: fore Fortune P. Ryans Terrebonne, who ; led Menemsha another three lengths, while Four-Way Ranchs Way Thorn was a nose : out of the money. Gotta Go was ridden by l Hedley Wpodhouse and paid .60 after get-s ting the five and a half furlongs in 1:06. . He was the first of the Greentree juveniles L to start since the cough invaded that barn. Trainer Eddie Holton and apprentice i Charley OBrien won the Daily Double races I with Holtons Barboursville and Abe Levin- sons Tidewater, the pair returning 4.10. i Both winners scored by six lengths, though OBrien lost an iron when kicking too industriously near the finish of the opener.
