New-York tribune., 1905-08-11
BED0UIN MAKES FRIENDS
WINS HURON HANDICAP.
Mr. Harris Pilots ConnOCer Home
First in SteepIechase.
fBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BuNE.I


Saratoga. y. y, Aug 10-In making a show
Of the horses that accepted the weights for the
Huron Handicap, at one mile and three-six-
teenths. r. W. Jewett's three year-old gelding
Bedouin. to-day added materially to the favor
able impression he created in his last few races
He disposed OF Merry Lark. Palm Tree and
other useful three-year-olds without being fully
extended at any part of the journey, and at
the end had them all staggering behind him.
with rs pounds UP. he was top weight, accord
ing TO the scale and made concessions ranging
from three pounds to Merry Lark to twenty
1--WE pounds TO Kehailan.
Bedoun IS fast breaker. and when the bar
rier went up he overcame I'm four jumps the
handicap he had incurred by drawing the out
side position. Before the paddock turn was
reached Shaw had him snugly on the rail. and
was blazing the way with an ease that sug-
sested plenty of speed and stamina left to finish
with.
Merry Lark was the nearest opponent. and
those who had played the son Of Jim Gore stll
cherished forlorn hope that ~Hildebrand could
send him 10 the front when the real tussle
came IN the stretch. At the quarter pole they
abandoned all such haIlucinations. Shaw still
had restraining hold his mount. and Hide
brand had resorted TO his whip without getting
much response
AT the finish Bedouin had placed three
lengths between him and Merry Lark and twice
that distance between himself and Palm Tree
the runner UP. W. Knapp, who rode the lat
ter. laid so far out OF the pace that when he
called on his horse he found too great a gap
20 be overcome.
The result was uproariously satisfactory to
al three enclosures. as the winner was the
TarTnest favorite Of the afternoon and went TO
the post at evens and in certain books at odds
A commission rresun1a fl1, from his bIa
pounded the price against Merry Lark from 5s
10 16 to 3 and this money helped to sustain
the price against the favorite
The heat in the village was so intense this
morning that the courage Of many would-b
patrons failed them and they remained away
from the enclosure. A cooling breeze. however.
swept over the infeld and into the stands and
the track was probably the coolest place in the
county. Many cab horse suffered however
In the pell NELL rush to and from the track. and
at least half dozen fell by the wayside and
took the count
MI Harris. the amateur rider. who brought
Jim Newman first home yesterday in a steenIe-
chase rode his own morse. Connover. in a steeple-
chase selling handicap over the short corrse
to-day. and demonstrated that he must h.
counted on in either amateur or professional
company.
He set the pace for field of seven and in the
last quarter. when Pious the favorite ioned
him, he even went far as to kid" Finneear
on the latter. into believing he was beaten,
Once over the last jump, however he sent Con
mover along again and won by half a dozen
lengths. Paulaker, which had always been i'm
q contenders position, beat the others
Charawind went down at the Liverpool in tba
back stretch, and Porter, his rider was tempo-
rarlly knocked out. Although there was little
hlhitons of clean jumping that has been seen at
the meeting.