New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-29
Celesta Likes Heavy Go
ing and Breezes Home
in Mile Handicap.
SEA SHELL SHOWS
WAY TO JUVENILES
Kaskaskia, Garbage and Trial
by Jury Do Fast Time in
Trials for Futurity.

Saratoga Springs, y. Y, Aug. q.
The worst possible conditions pre-
vailed the last day but one Of the
Saratoga Associations summer meet
ing of 1914. Rain fell At intervals and
the track was fetlock deep IN holding
mud. In spite Of all this, a crowd OF
1000 persons attended, and the sport
was followed with keen interest.
IL was day Of no stakes. the feature
race being a gallop Of one mile for
three-year-Olds and over. which at
tracted Winning Witch. Celesta, Holt
day and Ringing Celesta proved
easily the best Of the mudlarks, foI
after Winning Witch, which apparent
~ does not care for heavy going, had
shown her the way for half a mile. she
took the track and came home alone.
with Ringing in the place and Holt
day third When Winning Witch
stopped she stopped for good. She
was beaten sixty yards.
It is evident that Jack Adkins has 10
intention of starting Z. j. MackenzIe's
good FLY Sea Shell tomorrow in the
Futurity, in which race the daughter Of
Star Shoot Flying Ship would have %
take up a burden of 1877 pounds. for
Sea Shell was in the last race this al
ternoon, and she won II without diff
Guilty in rafting good time, the going
considered. Her opponents were two
in number. John Sanford's E.euslnI
and Richard T. Wilson's Encore, Char
ter Maid, Razzano and Runes having
been scratched on account Of the heavy
going.
over these Sea Shell was an over
LII.
that the confidence reposed in her was
not misplaced, for. after lying behind
Eleusnia for about three-eighths Of a
mile she came on without trouble and
won ea.ed up. The distance was 1--WE
and one-half furlongs.
Yodeling proved the good thing OF
the afternoon. lie was one Of st
starters in the mile for platers Of the
second or third grade, which came
fifth on the card. Bac set out 20 make
the peace. but Yodeling took the track
in the first half and instead of back
ing up in the homestretch. as expected.
he came right on and won without
great trouble from Royal Meteor and
Bac. The latter tailed off badly in the
homestretch, but that was not surpris-
ing. He was a thrce-year-old trying
to give away lot Of weight.
Mrs. Payne Whitney's conslstcu.
Stalwart gelding Virile won the mile
end a furlong for platers Of the three
and-up brigade after apparently beng
distanced. He was easily outrun m
the dash around the first turn and up
the backstretch and into the big turn.
But his opponents, Executor and
Spearhead went wide. and keder.s
shot Virile up on the rail. The turn
of speed he showed was truly mar
vellous. and he won hard held IN rat
tling good time for the going. Executor
was second.
The Piping Rock subscription handi-
CAP. a dash OF three quarters Of mile
for yearolds which. as two
vear-olds. took part in the Piping RocH
races Of last season. brought Ba0isa,
Election Bet. Aurora. Delegate. Viz
GINA Lass. Lily Orme and Golden
Prime to the post. Lily Orme stepped
20 the front in the first furlong and
showed the way around the turn. but m
the homestretch she weakened, and
Delegate, Golden Prime and Election
Bet. coming from behind with great
speed, took first. second and third
money i'm the order named.
Richard T. Wilson won the nrst race,
a dash Of five furlongs and half FOR
two-year-olds. with the Ogden geldlnc
Sarsenet. Nine ran. and Sarsenet was
as we'll thought Of, perhaps. as any