New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Purchase Wins
Saranac Mile
In Easy Style
Best of Rivals Scratched
and the Hildrcth Colt
Scores a Hollow Victory
BY w. !. Macbeth

~ Nam Hlidreth's fine three-year-old
chestnut colt, Purchase, won the Sara
mac Handicap at one mile, the feature Of
to-days racing programme at the Spa.
~ was rather hollow victory. The
most seriously considered candidate
for three year-old honors had vcrv iittio
to beat and perhaps it may have been
fortunate for him that this was so.
NO morse can do more than is asked
or MN and Purchase won handi]v
enough by couple of lengths. never
fully extended.
But there might possibly have been
dlHercnt story IL Purchase had NOT
scared out the best of the competition
lils II stable companion, Lord Brighton
commander Ross's War Pennant. Rout.
edge A,thonee, Tetley and W R. Goes
over lhere all were scratched, assum-
ing victory to Purchase in spite of tha
fact that he had been called upon 70
concede many pounds in the gluev
gong to tote no less than 1873 pounds
for the mile -
Over There Shows Speed
Many who watched the ease with
whlcn Mr.. Goes Over There galloped
10 victory over mile in the second
event believed that if Over There had
trled conclusions with the great three
year-old to-day Purchase would have
nad TO take second money. Over The re-
galloped mile in 1:4O as. quite "a
much within himself all the wav &c
was Purchase, and Purchase finished
out in 1:42 Is.
longs follows: III
.1;i's 9;lS' o:25 o:ss s-s. o:4s1-5. 1:o21-5.
LID 40, 29. 1:42 Is. -
The big crowd got one of the thrills
Oh the meeting for nearly half the dis
tance. The three that faced the etarter
The Trump, Passing Shower ,.'o ond ia p'r 5uer
chase-got off well together in that
order Purchase trailed through The
chute Then Willie Knapp moved Nd
TO TO Passing Shower and in few st, ;des
the two had closed on the pacemaker
for more than furlong the three
raced head to head and stride for
STRIDE. They could not be separated 80
close were they together.
Nearing the half pole, Rowan shook
up Inc Trump bit and he bounded
away to lead of about length. Pur-
caase was lighting for his head to 90
d a. sel the leader, but Knapp wisely kept
stretch, for Passing Shower was closa
up and full of running.
nan way round the far bend Knann
iec furchase down, and the great three
year-old closed on the pacemaker with
rush. In half a dozen mighty strides
nurchase was on even terms with tha
trump. Rowan went out wide ar this
turn TO get the best possible ADVANTAGE
OF the track. but Knapp carried even
Wldef' This enabled Johnson with
Passing Shower to skim through on
the rail and make up several Ieno+bs ,,
disadvantages . ''''
Passing Shower Finishes Strong
1t didn't take Purchase very long to
race the Trump into submission. This
one tralled off badly toward the end
ana was about ten lengths behind Pass
lng Shower at the finish. PASSING
Shower finished out strong. b1t Pnr7
chase, under wraps, kept ALWAYS p
couple of legths to the good.
The fifth race developed one of the
real upsets of the week when Wilfrid
Nlau CamouFeur, the odds-on fav0-
rite was beaten out by Woodtrap.
Camoufleur couldn't work I'D Gallon
enough to exercise Woodtrap, though il
must be admitted the latter was verv,
very good to-day. Under 119 pounds
Woodtrap stepped the mile in | 40 3-5,
a, better performance than that of over
mere IN one OF the earlier events
Rice showed good judgment Of pace
the front was never headed Hummer
might easily have improved his ham
ding of Camouheur Throughout tn
backstretch he kept down near the
rail where the going was very cough,
and to escape a bad pocket at the far
turn, had to drive his mount to the
limit for about a furlong. This early
dash undoubtedly tired Camoufeur.
The North Shore Stables old CAM
paigner, Back Bay, came back with a
vengeance in the opening dash of SIX
furlongs and won simply as he pleased,
eased up, through the last furlong.
Jockey Rodriguez got all the best of a
poor start. Back Bay was away run
ming and got the jump on the rest of
the field by several lengths.
The favorite, st. Quentin, might as
well have been in the barn This one
had the rail- position, and one of the
-.....--..- starters mad the gelding by
the head when the barrier was sprung.
st. Quentin was as good as left, and
had to pick his way through the scat
tered field. He finished out wonder
fully strong, and was running over the
others at the end, but Valerie West,
which was the contender all the way
and which was the only one besd 5
Back Bay to get away, had too great an
advantage and lasted long enough to
take the place in drive.