New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-23
Pebbles, Again Off Badly,
Finishes Gamely in
Hopeful Stakes.
HIGH PRAISE FOR
TIE WHITNEY FILLY
Tuckey Rides Syosset to Vic
tory in Spectacular Style at
Saratoga Springs.
By HERBERT

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SARATOGA Springs. N Y. Aug %
Two weeks ego H. P Wh.tney's Broom
stick FLY Regret won the Saratoga
Special, beating James Buffers Peb-
bles O. length, after the latter had been
practically lef. al the post
History just about repeated itself ~
the track here to-day when Regret won
the rich Hopeful Stakes, worth $3.50
TO the winner. with Pebbles closing
Ike Hh.r.w.ad. snatching third money
after again getting practically left a.
the post.
This unfortunately left the unsstis-
factory feeling as 20 tho merits OF the
two horses, which are OF top rank for
the season. tlt Iu no way dctracted
from the remarkable performance O
the winner, which Jimmy Rowe doe
not hesitate 10 say is about the fastest
and truest running fly he ever trained
Eleven tw0-year-olds went 20 the
post IN an effort 20 capture the rich
prize. James Butler adding Kilkenny
Boy and George Odom's Andrew ~
II was a fractions field, but Mars Cas-
sidy soon sent 10 away 20 a good start
and was .n no way responsible for Peb-
Oles going ln the air, so 20 speak, =
the barrier flashed Up and being all
but left,
Regret. with Joe Notter vide awake
broke well. bur was quickly outrun b.
some Of the more lightly weighted
horses. including Top o. the Morning
and Kilkenny Boy. which shared the
task of pacemak.ng boo the run up ;he
oackstre-cn and around the turn.
Whipping Finish.
When Strengthened out IN the stretch
a general closing came and Notter, eA-
Treating Regret from tight quarter
on the rail- challenged tho Leaders
Just when DO looked a. II she woul
come away 90 win cleverly, Andrew VI.
Ioomed up on the outside, so that Not
ter rad 20 drive her out IN a whipping
finish 20 win by Il good head
A. the crowd roered it's approval OF
the bitter struggle DO suddenly gssped
70 see Pebbles rushing down on the
outside, after looking hopeiessly
beaten. 70 earn th.rd money. It was BY
all odds one Of the most sensational
races @ the meeting.
Regret and Pebbles met AZ even
weights. according 70 the scale, with
conceded from eight TO % pounds %
the opponents Under the circum
stances, then, both performed in brill
liant fashion, with the race and the
purse going 20 the FLY and much Of
the honors 10 the colt
Regret has now started three times
and won three races on successive Sat
urdays the Saratoga Special, the San
ford Memorial Stakes and the Hopeful
Stakes. In each case she has picked up
her weight and beaten high class field
IN a way 20 establish herself a truly
great horse.
Big Holiday Crowd.
The last Saturday but one Of the
meeting attracted the usual half holt
day crowd, so that for the fourth time
this year clubhouse and grandstand
were overrun and so jammed that
many had 10 content themselves with
standing on the lawn.
Hundreds came up from New York
10 see the tenth running OF the Hopeful
Stakes, and found weather made 70 the
exact measure Of an afternoon IN the
open. The rain clouds, which have been
hanging about so persistently, disap-
peared last night, and the sun shone
out clear and bright, even if d little too
feyently. Still, the sun under any
conditions was welcome
The track. while drying out fast. was
slow and curpy, particularly near the
rail, but apart from this the conditions
were almost perfect, and everybody
seemed TO enjoy the keen sport.
TUckey is either most wonderful
Judge Of pace or else he is possessed Of
the patience Of Job and nerve of steel
He never made a move with David
Stevenson's Syosset in the steeplechase
for turn and half of the field, al
though his mount was trailing fifteen
or twenty lengths behind Little Hugh
and Weldship, the pscemakers.
Iuckey sat with his hands on the with
ers of his mount as II carved in stone
and the crowd looked on in amazed
silence as the favorite galloped along
so far back, with his rider apparently
so unconcerned. In the last half mile,
however. the pace told on the leaders.
Little Hugh came nasty cropper three
jumps from home, while WeldshIp
shortened his stride and plainly hung
out signals of distress.
Then Syosset made up fifteen lengths
in less than quarter Of mile and
came away 20 win galloping with
Tuckey still sitting still and with his
NdLA0 OF hLt NlLNtl@ OF MS mount
Weldship staggered in second. easily
beating L. Ambrose Clark's Meadow
Sweet, which fenced fairly we'll, but
was lacking in the necessary speed.
Allen, who is ranked AZ the top
among the steeplechase riders, was
picked up I'm dazed condition when
Little Hugh fell, and for time IL was
feared that he was dangerously in
jured A crowd gathered AS he was
placed in the ambulance, but he re
vived before reaching the jockey quar-
tiers. and later reported that he was
feeling fine
Hocnir, the Beverwyck Stables
galloway, for the son Of Noorhees-
Enier is little more than pony IN
size, beat Holiday and Little Nephew
in the opening handicap az six fur
longs Buxton took him 10 the front
in the first furloug and kept him there
90 the end
Little Nephew ran in bandsges be-
hind and appeared 20 pull up slightly
lame. The slow track was supposed 20
De in his favor, and he had host O.
followers, but failed 20 come on In
the stretch. after sticking close 20 the
pace for five furlongs He IS not so
good a horse as he was year ago.
TIME SAVES BENSONHuRST