New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
ComeIy, Popular Choice,
Unplaced in Feature
Event at Saratoga.
ROYAL METEOR PUTS
UP A GAME BATTLE
Star Jasmine Wins Handicap
and Northerner Takes Race
for Lower Grade Platers.
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TBy Telegraph to The Tribune
Saratoga. n. Y, Aug. 1l.-Captain
y. B. Cassatt's homebred colt Garbage
SON of Acronsut and Trash, showed
the best Futurity trial yet when ne
took up l27 pounds this afternoon and
defeated a field OF first rate young
sters in the Grand Union Hotel Stakes,
covering quarters of a mile IN
1;133-5 over a slow track.
Comely, one of the smartest oil
James Buffers youngsters, none oil
which is eligible TO start in the Flu
turity. was utterly unable to keep up
with Garbage, under the same wen I'M Il
and Noureddin, Prince henry, pm
Dudley and Hanson were fsr III MS
rear at the finish
Hanson, a brand new youhgs'sr
from the stable of Senator Johnson ~
Camden, also a possible starter IN the
Futurity, did not make as gooo
showing as his stable mate 1oi1S'
which is not thought as well OF.
Nevertheless, Hanson VIII start III ths
Futurity because he has outworKeu
any other two-yesr-old IN the Camueh
stable, Luke not excepted. IL might De
argued in explanation OF his lndil-
ferent showing this afternoon that ne
was absolutely green.
ComeIy the Popular Choice.
Few thought that Garbage had
chance TO win the Grand Union under
1oT mounds. Comely was the popular
cboice. with Distant Shore, Bars ana
stars ROYAL Meteor and frlnce
Henry in fair demand. The pace Tor
tI,ree-eiehths of a mile was cut out
NV ROYAL Meteor, with Distant Shore
and Bars and Stars well up and Gar
bage in a good position. Ga
Garbage made his bid as the held
entered the home stretch, and Dawes,
ending a gap by the rail, whipped nm
20 tbe fore. He won under the hardest
lind Of a drive, with Royal Meteor lh
The Mace and Distant Shore third. IL
LOOKS as though Clifford Cochran has
6rst rate flly in Royal Meteor, a good
ioot;no Vireinian bred filly, by Golden
Garter-Mary Stuart, from Henry L.
Ovnard's stud at Blue Ridge. She mas
started twice now and finished D9ng
nm second to a good horse on each oc-
casion. Ill.
Comelv seems to be going back:
carbagois performance, weight and
track considered, was as credltab!e as
y winner of the Grand Union ever
made, notwithstanding King Hanover,
High Rail. Colin, Edward and Iron
Nask we're among the earlier vlctors
in that stake, which was run first In
1901. -
The track conditions were not good
to-dav because of steady rain, which
heoan early in the afternoon and con-
timed internationally to the end OF ne
dav The attendance was remarkably
Good Four thousand persons were IN
the stands. The best race iot hoIses
~ mature age. a handicap OF one ME,
was won by Major Thomas Clay nc NC
Dowell's good mare Star Jasmine. Ten
ron and the crowd seemed to fancy
Gamer. Frederick l.. and Bucknora
most. Buckhorn was top weight utdet
122 pounds, and Star Jasmine ha1
burden Of l07 in the saddle.
Cliff Field, lightly weighted RUIZ
ner from the upstate stable OF Johh
Sanford, just out of the maiden SASS
was first away. She led the held up the
three or four lengths "
front of Buckhorn, and FrederlcA L'
Gamer was away back and Pandean,
his stable mate, refused to break.
Buckhorn and Frederick l.. closed OIL
the paeemaker at the turn for home.
Buckhorn Looked Winner.
Buckhorn looked a winner all over a
furlong out, but when Star Jasmine
challenged on the outside in the last
fifty wards he was not there. The Ken
tuckv mare beat him handily. Amalh,
which came fsom long way back, beat
Gamer for show money after a lively
tussle.
High Noon, an absentee from the
trscks since some time during the
Aoneduct meeting, won the second race,
a dash of Eve and one-half furlong5,
Cor lanes Butler. lie was favorite,
and he did not keep his friends in sus-
nense for moment. He stepped into
the lead directly the barrier assembled
and came home with three or four
lengths. of daylight separating him
from David Gideon's Scorpii. Razzano
was a bang-up third. Andrew NJ, OF
which much was expected, was kicked
or the stiAe joint Of his nigh leg and
injured so badly he refused 10 try.
Northerner, not long since a mem
her Of the stable Of r. 7. Wilson, won
IN. first race, a galIop of one mile. for
selling platers of the lower grade three
Years old and over. There were four
teen starters, and he had some friends,
but not as many, perhaps, as did sew
eral of the others. Yorkshire Boy and
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