New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-20
LADY BARBARY
DOES IT AGAIN
Beats Field of Likely jul
venlleS to Win Adiron-
daCk Handicap.

Saratoga Springs. y. Y. Aug. 19-.
More RAIN last night and this morning
slowed down the going al the Saratoga
Racing Associations track here this
afternoon, with the result that Richard
Carman's Lady Barbary was Just suited
M the Adirondack Handicap. a siN-fur-
long dash for twO-ycar-olds of both
sexes, and she won right handily from
field which included the Western
champion Of the spring meeting. Luke.
and the equally highly thought Of East
en colt. High Noon
Distant Shore RazZanO and Trial By
Jury ran with these youngsters and the
weights were pretty well adjusted.
Luke and High Noon were the popular
choices and both found support. High
Noon closing a slight favorite over the
son Of Peter Ounce.
High Noon, never the best actor AZ
the barrier, was not away well and was
never dangerous, and Luke, after cut
ting out the running FOR nearly five
furlonCs and keeping IN on the turn.
which he was not expected to do.
stopped badly. Trial by Jury and Lady
Barbary, which were back i'm the ruck
in the run up the backstretch. swept by
the firing Westerner i'm the last quar-
ter, and it looked as though Trial by
Jury was going to win until the two
were well within the final sixteenth.
But Lady Barbary proved too much
for the Fair Play colt IN the last fifty
yards and won going away by rather a
narrow margin. Luke lasted just long
enough to land show money.
The Adirondack was the feature Of
the card. and the attendance was good
again, IN spite of threatening weather.
The second best race was handicap at
one mile for three-year-Oids and over,
which attracted Flying Fairy Frederick
L.. San Vega, Magnet, Star Gaze and
three or four others. Flying Fairy clos
ing favOrite.
Captain Cassatt's good mare did not
have her accustomed foot and she was
never serious contender. Frederick l..
showed the way to the turn into the
homestretch, and when he stopped San
Vega went on with Magnet.
Il was nip and tuck between these
two to the last sixteenth pole. where
san Vega. which had been laid up a
long time by sickness, began TO weaken.
Magnet drew away TO win rather
handily i'm 1889 So from Star Gaze,
which came with a great burst of speed
on the outside in the last sixteenth.
Sprite. which has developed habit
Of bleeding since she came to Saratoga,
won her first race since the Belmont
Park meeting. when she took up 1873
pounds and galloped home in front in
a lightweight handicap for sprinters of
the three-and-up division at three-quar-
ters of a mile. She waited behind Isl
rose and Holiday in the dash up the
backstretch and around the upper turn.
But when she moved forward on the
outside in the final quarter she quickly
overbore all opposition to win with
something in hand.
The Steeplechase Handicap, at two
miles. fell to Edward c. Yields veteran
! fencer Weldship. which jumped as bad
~ as it was possible for a horse to
Jump and keep his feet, but which was
fortunate i'm not encountering first rate
opposition. The experienced jumpers
Gold Plate. Meadow Lark. Kingpin
Nosegay and Brosseau, appeared to be
off their form, and the omparatively
green Leumas came in for place money
Half an hour before the last race
Frank Nolan. of Albany. purchased the
maiden Mallard. a daughter Of Star
Shoot-Lizzie Dixon, from John Mad
den, and Mallard, racing under the
Beverwyck silks, won handsomely from
Sand Rock and Carlaverock.