The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-21
SIX FAYORITES IN A
ROW MEET DEFEAT
For First Time at Saratoga
Meeting Not One Choice
Is Successful.
81 IS WORTH S8l3.12O

RAroo. Aug 2e.-For the first time
during the meeting not a favorite got
down in front to-day. There were no
stake events OF the programme ana
long before the disastrous afternoon
ended the visitors we're busy reckoning
what they might have done with a small
baukroll II they only could have picked
the winners. Figures speak e~loquenily
OF the subject. showing that a dollar
bill bet on the first winner and then
tucked away TO parlay the winnings
would have made the amazing amount
OF ssls.l?O.
The handicap at a mile Mas the most
important event or the care and with a
we'll matched field OF FIVE. Archibald
Bsrklie's Holiday was the choice. with
Thorn Hill and Pullux pressing him
close for favoritlsm. II looked as II
the public had at last selected a winner
when Holiday. after following the pace
set by Coming Tower. went 70 the
front tn the stretch. The pace had been
hot and McCahey was trying 20 nurse
the favorite along 10 the taish when
The Grader, a 5 TO l shot. cane with a
wet sail and passing Thorn Hill ans
Pullux nailed Holiday in the Last SIX
teenth and won going away by three
lengths. Thorn Hill finished strongly
and was beaten only a neck for the
place. The t.m-, | SO rs, is the fastest
run so far At the meeting.
Proceedings started with the biggest
upset when George J. Longs Rochester
Won the t~wO-year-old handicap at i've
and a half furlongs. in which August
Belmout's Friar Rock was made an
odds on ~fsvorite in a field ~ thirteen
There were several useful youngsters 'n
the bunch. but Rochester was neg
lected entirely at a. 10 /. Friar Rock
was away badly ard never had a chance
- get into the running until TOO late
Meantime L. McBride's Pesky was set
ting the pace. with Peaceful star IN
close attendance Rochester dropped
from the clouds in the last sixteenth
md. catching PesNy a few jumps from
the iu.sH. won by a neck.
James Buffers Capra ran a greatly
improved race IN the ha,dicap Eog mares
a. seven furlnnss. She was al . 10 =
and after following Flligree To the
stretch drew away for a lead of two
lengths. which WAS cut down 20 a length
BY Pom-'te Bleu when MrCahey founl
an opportunity 10 send her along with
out interference. one Step. the fivorite,
finished ;1ird, three lengths ehjud Po-
met'e Bleu.
one -: the saddesc races Of the day
vas the third, AZ a mile and three-siN-
t"enths. which was Won by the extreme
outsider. Napier, WHICH has hecn used
b. his owner largely as a means ~
claiming horses out OF selling races.
The riders OF O'Sullivan and q. NJ
Miller, the irst and second choices. aa-
pcaged To- take II for granted that Napier
and CarltoD q, would CON. back 10 them
and made no effort TO se' up 20 tho
stdegs until II was too late. h, that
tn" Mnrshon Rad 'rotted into th-l
place and the two most f,1"'ed horses
finished last and next 80 last. Navt,r
just lasted long enough 10 Sta. OF;
Carlton G.s challenge and Win by a
length
There Was aUo'Hs- * blow 90
the NTH race for tao yctr-o'dS. iu which
EroDmvale Wds 4 % 10 cau = 81
Vanity, 10 - /. TOOK IT,, track from
the inside position and kept Bruomyale
racing on the outside ~ he u0tl nra-
the stretch turn. where she drew on
for a lead OF a length aud a hall and
maintained - 20 the finish
Miss Ph'lo'n, the outsider a. - 20 :
dropped into 'hJrd Place. The race run
closest to form MAS the last. IN which
John sanford silica, tho second c~or,r
won, with Clifford \. C~o'nrau's F'-fur,
the ~rsNorite, second The summarize.
FIRST RAGS