The sun., 1905-08-02
PALM TREE WINS THE MOHAWK
BEATS THE HEAVILY BACKED
GAMARA AT SARATOGA.
Pretension Takes the lIandicap From
Colsniai Giri--H. p whitney Provides
& , Two winners In Batueaxc and Comet
-Tanya's Sister. TanElc, Victorious

4 TWO winners IN bhtucuAo sUu SV'"e'
-. --Tanya's Sister, Tansic, Victorious.
SARATOGA, Aug. i.-Only two favortes
were successful here to-day. and the book
makers got the bulk OF tho money. II. !.
Wilson, Jr. Gamara lost fortune for the
smart players when he was defeated In the
Mohawk Selling Stakes. for three-year-olds.
at nine furlonss. Gamara was the overnight
selection. He figured sure thing with all
the hand cappers, and when he opened at 7 To
the nood OF gold was 40 great that he was
soon pounded down to TO TO- Practically
every puneer at the track played the wilson
colt as II II were all over but the cashing'
: with only o. pounds up and little Mcdaniel
In tho saddle 0aniarA looked TO have the other
starters at his mercy, so that there we're liberai
prices against e. r. Brsdleys Palm Tree and
Woodford Clays Angler. the supposed con-
tenders Palm Tree opened at s to .. but went
MP to to 2, with to always on tap against
Angler. Jennie MoCabe. ~ to 1. Angler and
Kehailan, is to !, were the leaders At the
three-Quarter pole. Gamara and Palm Tree
having left the post slowly. In the stretch
the pacemskers tired and Gsmars looked the
winner. but only for q moment as be hung
In his stride, and also swerved at the last SIX
teenth POLE which enabled Willie Knapp
TO run over him with Palm Tree. who won
clevsrly by two lengths In 1855. Gamars
had four lengths over Jennie MoCabe. with
Angler eight lengths away.
Jack Bennett put over . real good thing
In Pretenslon. the winner Of the handicap
at mile. Preten.ion opened at to l and
was pounded down TO IS to s. closing fAvorite
at this quotation. Colonial Girl. with top
weight. meanwhile. carried pile Of smart
money at threes. with W. ". Snyder's Tyron
and August Belmonts Blandy also in some
favor But there was nothing to 1t but Pre-
tension when the field was sent away. for
Burns took him quickly to the front. where
he made every fnrlong pole winning one and
passed the Judge. an easy winner by two
lengths in lAi. Inferno was the runner-up
for half mile. and then gave way to Colonial
Girl. who proved to be much the best OF the
others and ran into the place with safe
margin over Tyron The latter lost some
ground at the start. but ran q good race and
beat Blandy by half length. there being no
excuses for Mr.. Belmont's colt.
Harry Payne whitney won two races. with
Battleaxe and Comet, both sired by Ham
burg. RattleaSe was an odds-on favorlte
In the first race. for two-year-olds. five and
. half ffurlonRs. With Hildebrand up, he showed
his heels to the others and won handily by
two lengths In los 2-5. Sydney Paget's
Kinleydale. who was played down to 4 to 1.
began slowly. az usual. but closed with a re-
markable turn of speed and nailed the place
by two lengths from j. L. Hollands Master
son. a 20 to shot Jerry Weinberg, lowered
to I? to 1. was apparently out OF 1t In the run
up the backstretch. but he made UP lot OF
ground In the run home. and would have been
third In another stride Snow. another
good thing. was factor up to the last quar-
ter where he blew up.
Comet. carrying the Whitney colors. also
worn by Hildebrand. got out OF the maiden
class in the sixth race. at six furlonss. He
was backed down to 7 to 2, an equal second
choice with Conquest. There was q heavy
plunge MIR. PaRet's Bass. who was nam
mered down from to to 10 to favorite,
after which he was never prominent H. B.
DURYEA'S Pioneer also by Hamburg. a to
good thing. had big lead at one period Of
the race. but he weakened in the last furlona,
and Comet, who had been in hand all the
way. experienced no trouble in beating him
. length and a half in 1I51-S. Pioneer
finished two lengths before J. Grant LIZ
mans Grand Duchess, o to 1. with Bella
sisnora length and q half back. Grand
Duchess closed big gap At the end.
was victorious In the third event. for maiden
She ran in the name and colors of 7. R. Hitoh-
both By p&sddsr ruea tSe ehoios
B. sui!vsn % tspries ass and ss@gh r. rho%ss: rho9S:9
early speed, with Commune also at the head
OF the procession. but they stopped at the
half mile. wnere Shaw had assumed the
leedership with Tangle. who won in a gallop
Tsn a and eoH he p.ee Sss
from Biyouac by three lengths.
The chances of The Mighty. o to S fayorLte
hurt by the start. Yet he managed to get
third money. Willie, Knapp meanwhile
brought Greencrest.. heavily backed at 10
bali. Though poorly ridden, Kansas Price's
Uncle Urigh, ls to |, landed the place. Henry
speed for seven furlongs but was short.
The. mile was run In 1918. W. Knapp and
Hildebrand each rode two winters. The
The summaries:
rrRsT RACE.