The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-27
TROY STAKES GOES
 TO QUESTIONABLE
Edward Arlington's Colt Comes From Behind and
 Wins Spa Handicap.

Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 27 - Ques- tionnaire, the brown cold owned by Edward Arlington, ran like a cham pion in the Troy Selling Stakes, the feature of the program at the Spa, yesterday afternoon. He got away from the barrier in seventh position, ran around big field of juveniles and then won eased up by three lengths. Joseph E. Widener's Peter finished second and R. H. Potters Blairgowrie third. So impressive was Questionnaire's race that many horse men declared he would give good account of himself in the $30,000 Hopeful Stakes on Saturday.
 Frank Herold, trainer for MT. Ar hngton, had the colt in top form. Questionnaire's recent trials we're so fast that he was made the favorite, but there were so many other tips in the race that the good odds of 2 to 1 were obtainable on him at post time.
 Different Eyes went to the front soon after the start and set a merry pace to the head of the stretch. At that point he quit and Peter took command. At the final eighth pole Peter looked like the winner, but by that time Georgie Walls, who gradu- ally had worked Questionnaire into a. contending position, gave his mount a crack of the whip. MT. Arlington's colt sprang to the front and the race was over. Georgie had hard time to keep from winning by too big a margin.
 The track was dull from the recent rains and Questionnaires time of 1905 45 was exceptionally good. Questionnaire was entered to be sold for $2,O0O, and when he galloped home a victor Joe Vendig dashed from his position on the lawn and | $2,500. MT. Arlington bid an extra l $5 and led his colt back to the barn. Fairy Wand, the chestnut lilly own | ed by Clifford A. Cochran, ran off with the Watervelt Handicap. With little | Willie Midgley in the saddle she dart ed to the front as soon as the barrier rose and was never headed. At the end of the one mile and a furlong | journey she was a length ahead of A. K. Macomber's Star Master. | It was Fairy Wand's third race in | less than a week, but when she re- turned to the paddock she was far from fatigued. In the first start last week Frankie Robinson punished her | so much with the whip that she re- | fused to do her best and was com pelled to accept third honors. She came back to the track the next day, | with fha T11o IrIa i,, oo saddle and no whip to hurt her ran 0 fine race and finished a bang up second. Fairy Wand will be retired | from the turf this week. She will be sent to MT. Cochran's stud farm. That such a good runner should be lost to | the turf when she is at her best seems pity.
 Flags, the three-year-o son of l Whisk Broom II, again showed that | he is one of the best sprinters in the country. He gave away big Jumps of | weight to a big field of high class horses in the Burnt Hills handicap and won the stake in sensational style. Samuel Ross Crank finished second and. Joseph B. Widener's Naturalist was third. Flags travelled the six | furlongs over the dull track in Ill 1-5, only fourffths of a second behind the track record held jointly by Jyntee and Polymelian.
 The first race, claiming affair at one mile, was won by Mir Arlington's old bay gelding Brother Jonathan
 He won because several of the con- l tenders met with bad racing luck
 While rounding the first turn several of the horses collided and Erickson on Ecu d'Artifice and Ted Rice on | Christie went down. Erickson's col
 larbone was broken. Rice escaped
 injury. It was Erickson's second
 mount since his return to the saddle
 after a serious fall at the Jamaica meeting.