Evening star., 1902-08-28
SARATOGA RACES.
Sombrero Smashed Another Record at
a Mile and a Halt.

The stewards of the Saratoga Racing AS
sociation got after State Senator j. s.
Brien Of Minnesota yesterday with a
sharp stick. They decided that his horse
Hans Wagner, which won the last race had
been drugged with some kind Of stimulant
and ordered that his entries be refused for
the rest of the meeting. AS it happens, that
period of time Is only one day, but this
was all the stewards Of the meeting could
do, except to refer the case to the Jockey
Club stewards, who will meet tomorrow in
New York. There is every probability that
at that meeting such action will be taken
as will transfer the operations of the
o Brien stable beyond the limits of the ju-
rsdiction of the Jockey Club.
The last time out Hans Wagner was beat
en- a furlong. Yesterday he acted like a
crazy horse going to the post, rearing and
plunging so that Wonderly had to dismOunt
several times. The stewards came down
from the stand and looked at the horse,
who was dripping with perspiration and had
to be led to the post Hans Wagner led
ali the way and won by length and a half
After further examination of the animal
the stewards arrived at the decision al
ready given. But the owner Of the horse
won about $4,000 on the race, for all that,
as the gelding closed at about 20 to /.
Grey Friar again showed hts quality by
thu ease with which he won the Albany han
x %. This colt is something out of the
ordinary. and it is pity that he is not
eligible for the Futurity He was ALWAYS
the favorite, Eugenia Burch going up to
f1ves from threes, and Merry Acrobat being
backed down from sevens to the same fig
ure.
Bounding Beauty broke like a shot and
led to the turn, where Grey Friar took
command, and simply loafed home a Win
ner. Odom had foolish stable instructions
on Eugenia Burch He was told to lie back
until the head of the stretch, and to make
the flly do all her real running from there
He followed orders, and, though his
mount closed with a good burst of speed it
was hopeless chase and she was length
and a half back of the galloping winner at
the end. The time. 1.12 3-5, was only a
fraction of a second over the track record
Sombrero smashed the Saratoga record for
mile and a half all to matchwood in the
handicap. Tom Skidmore held the old rec
ord with 2.351s, but Sombrero did the dis
tance rather easily in 2.31 As. The worlds
record of 2-30A for the distance was made
by Goodrich at Washington Park in 1898.
CogSweM was first to show, and Douro then
took up the race, but when Burns let Som
brero down 1t was all over Rice let Baron
Pepper fall so far out of 1t on the back
stretch that, though he closed with terrific
speed, Burns did not have to ride Som
brero out to beat him three quarters of a
length. Douro tired to nothing at mile
and quarter.
The last Steeplechase Of the meeting did
not amount to much. Victor and Galahad
fell, and after that 1t was all too easy for
Sallust. who could have trouted in a winner
If he had liked. The only dead heat of
the meeting was run in the fifth race by
two-year- -olds. Bright Girl led to the last
sixteenth pole when Virgin Oil, the favorfte,
came up on the outside and the two fought
1t out together under the whip. Neither
Burns nor Smith had anything on the other,
and the judges could not separate the pair
at the wire.