New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-29
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
RACING AT SARATOGA.

DANICHEE N
YOLTURNO DEFEATS FIVE OLDER BACERs-AN
OUTSIDERs EASY VICTORY.
TFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
SARATOGA, n. Y. Aug. 2S.-The attendance
was small at the course to-day and the racing was not so
brilliant as on many preceding extra days Two OF the
fayores-DancEef and Dan K.-had no great difficulty
In getting iaurels. Tho fine Southern twoyear Ola No-
turno beat five older racers in the dash OF three
quarters of a mile An outsder-Puryear's Brother
TO rinsteadwon the third With such CASE defeat
ing Kenney, Lucifer Vermont and two Others as 10
show him to be colt OF promise The last OF the
100 races which II promised in 1877 spould take
place Saratoga this year. was run yesterday Iero
are many horses here now the principal sAOies nav
ing gone aud the interest in the Is much less tha
il was last week. Consequently though there Is SIN
great multitude OF visitors in Saratoga tine racing VIII
probably be concluded tomorrow
In the fret race free handicap OF threequarers OIL
mile for purse OF $500, $50 going TO the second ana
S25 TO the third horse George Ayress colt AcVeur 10
years. 92a 49, pounds oyerweighD, was highest IN the
pools at $50; Powers and Buckless colt Noi'urno q
wears 80 ponndsl came next az $3.50; DAILY Brothers
1ly Fusiladc g years. SO poundsl third at SlO5 Stan
fords horse St. James years 100 pounds fourth at
S45; Babcock's Panic hlly 90 years, s74 pounds ~
pounds overweight, hfth at so: and Bells geding
Franklin g years, 50 pound-), sixth at $50
Tue start bad, as 1t almost invariably
il in dashes OF three-Quarters OF mile at
saratoga. Aueveur had much the best Of IT, and
bis defeat when he got away far before the rest
showed that he was a colt OF little merit He led up to
the last furlong Voturno had been gaining on nun
slowly but surely having been second almost from the
instant when the flag fell and when only an eighth OF
mile remained 20 be run the twO-year-od had got to
Aeyeurs mead The too fought desperately for hun
red yards and then Aeveur began 70 lose ground and
Volturno won b. half length, Alleveur second, the
Panic dly third two lengths behind. Fronilin fourth
Fusladc Attn and st. James last The race was entirely
between volturnO and Aevcur OF the others ever
being near the front The victory OF the tWoyearold
WAS credtable TO him, and the running Of the older
horses was decidedly discredtable TO them. Mutual
pool tickets on yoiturno were worth S2I each.
Puryear & Co.'S thrcc-y ear-old colt Danchef QO9
pouuds) brought $500 in thcsoeOnd race-a free EaDd-
cap Of one mile and five furlongs FOR purse OF $780,
SIS going 70 the second horse aud S25 10 the third
Graham's old horse shyOck az pOunds) brought $50
and Harts mare Cemmie c. Is years, 90 pounds) S155
Dauichef took the lead In bis usual style Immediately
after the start but others followed hard after
In passing the stand first time Danichef was only
length III front, ShYlOck second and Clemme g. third
Danichef heightened the interval, and along thb
back-stretch was two lengths before snylock'
Clemue g. being poor third. Fisher began whipping
Shylock half mile from the end to keep him At work.
and IL was plain that Dlnichef much the superior
Danlchef galopped in three lengths before shylock
gaining his victory easily in 2:54. Clemmie G.. was
each.
In the third race another free handicap, Puryears colt
Brother TO Grnstead IS years 93 poundi ac6leV,d hls
first Success He sold the field In most OF the pools
The distance one mile aud eighty yards, and The
purse $500 $50 going to the SECOND anu 20 10 the
hrd horse The starters aud their route IN the polls
r. T. &. ". r. Davis's horse Kenucy Is years, 1o2
pOundsl, 1925 Mukey's horse Lnciicr q years y.
ponndsl sIs5: Harts horse Vermont a years. 06
pOundsl Ill and the field $40, cOnslsug Of Brother 10
Grinstead, J. A. smiths morse Mauton q years 9J
p0unds) ana Ayress horse Fredericktown q years 1913
pOuuds IL was pad start. vermont being af 10 frnn
Manon dashed forward 10 the font place and led by mo
stand Vermont second Brother To Gnstcad thir, ana
Kcupey fourth. M.ntOn led INTO the hOmr-5tretOn,
closely pressed by Brother 20 Crnsad, TIE latter nav
ing taken second place from Vermont In the second
quarter Lucif,T made rush IN the hOme-strctch, hut
Brother 10 GTinslead was quicker than ne, ana DURAN
him IA the goal, winning by a length and
hlf IN IN64 Inciier serouI The fav9rltc Kenney did
not baye speed enough In tbA last quarter u get nearer
the first than me thi.d place. vermont vas ionlt9
ericktOwn brought mp the rear, clngug TO the last
place with persistency that his Jockey could not dis
turD Mutual pool tickets on the winner paid So4 81
The fourth and last race was mile with selling
allowance horses beaten and not having race at
Saratoga this year allowed ponnis 2ddlllGnaL bes
geldug Dan H. "a year, los pOuudsl, brought 500 IN
the pools; Peine's gedng Patriot % years, ~ pmnds
sos; Grgham's horse ". l. higgins " years 10
pounds $50 and CampbelPs gelding. Quccnsinn (aRe
02 pouid,l, and colt ry Is years. "a poundsh 80
To start Dan & and Patriot shot forward m
the front rank but their jockeys checked thor pTtina
ard0r and allowed Qneenston and " l. iIggin,t0
precede them The two leaders were four lengths IN 'front.'
OF the others at the quarierpOst and made the gap
greater In the second quarter. AZ the half-me-pos
Queeustun "a neck In front OF Higgins, and he eight
lengths before Dan X In tho third quarter Dan r. gained
rapidly, and In the home stretch ne went 10 the front
very readily Higgins was the only that seriously
disputed Dan ks advance, and he could not prevent
Bells geldmg from getting the race by length Patriot
was third Queeuston fourth and Fury last. The time
wa 1:46li Fury ridden ~ little "pekauinny,"
whose appearance horseback made oyery one laugh
ne was 30 diminutiVe Fury ran half a friong behind
The Others and the reason for putting him m the race at
all was not apparent. Dan X. was bought In by his
owner at the entering pH6 eo MUTUAL poor