Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
SARATOGA RACES.
Five Favorites Won and Hildebrand
Rode Two of Them.

Fort Hunter galloped off with the Huron
handicap, for threeyear-olds one mile and
three-sixteenths, at Saratoga yesterday af-
ternoon. and his time. POI 3-5, reduced the
record for the race by a full second. Fort
Hunter packed 122 pounds, was ridden in
clever style by Hildebrand, and was the
favorite at II to 5. Every starter was
backed. except Pulsus, who went up in the
betting to 20 to 1. Spring went to the front
at the start aid led by three lengths for
half mile. Then Fort Hunter passed him
and came home an easy winner by length
and half. Spring tired in the stretch.
and st. Valentine. who ran a good race,
took the place by a similar margin, with
Adrfutha a head out of the money.
Four of the five starters in the first race,
handicap for mares at seven furlongs.
finished in bunch. Woodford Clay's Sir
Dixon f1lly, Memories. 10 to 1 shot raced
to the front with Virgin Soil and H. B. Dur
yeas Mineola, the odds favorite but af-
ter the first quarter Lyme took up his mount
and Mineola raced neck and neck with Vir-
gin Soil until well into the stretch. with
Gold Money always contender. In the
last hundred yards Lyme came up on the
outside with Memories, and the Sir Dixon
flly won in a fierce drive by three parts of
a length, old Money beating Mineola by a
head. with Virgin Soil a head back The
time was 1:27 40
e. r. Thomas Lady Potentate, Ii to 10
favorite. experienced little trouble in win
ming the second race, at mile and a fur
long on the grass. Travers let the field go
on at a fast pace in the early stages. but
when the stretch turn wassreached Lady
Potentate ran around her company and
won easily by two lengths, in 1:54 20.
Homestead, 15 to l; Brooklynite. IL to 8,
who made most of the running; Easy Street
and Irascible followed, heads apart, in the
order named.
Another favorite, Sydney Paget's Tea
cress. IL to 10, won the third race. for two
year-old FLIES. at five and half furlongs.
With H1ldebrand up, she got Off rather
slowly and was fourth to the head of the
stretch, where she inclined to go wide,
but when Strengthened out she showed her
superiority by winning easily by length
and half in los. Peggy, Danseuse and
Thirty-third made up the vanguard for the
greater part of the distance. but Peggy
tired and Thirty-third. who was quoted at
10 to 1. took place money from Danseuse,
to l. by two lengths.
II. b. Duryea's Dreamer 16-to-5 favorite.
made all the running in the fifth race, a
handicap for two-year-olds at five and a
Eaf furlOngs and gaIloped home victorious
by two and half lengths He picked up
liz pounds and at one time was four
lengths In front of his nearest rival Cigar
Lighter, backed down to to 1. closed
with a great turn of speed and was Sec
ond, three lengths before Derry. played
down to 10 to 1. Glorifier, the top weight
was contender to the head of the stretch
put the weight was too much for him and
ne finished fourth. half length away.
The last race. for maidens at a mile was
easy Tor John A. brakes Liberia. II to 10
1avorlte, who showed the way from the
outset and b-eezed home with five lengths
10 spare IN l:41. Phantom, a good thing
backed down to u to 1. ran into the place
nan length before Sir Shep. lowered to
tens Out Of Reach, hammered down to z
70 l. was beaten by the start. Five favor
ties We're successful. and Hildebrand rode
Two or them The track was fast