New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
NewTrack Mark
BY Sun Briar
In Spa Feature
Golden Broom Callops to
Victory in Saratoga Spe-
cial for Two.Year.Olds
By w. I. Macbeth

SARATOGA SPRINGS. Aug. e.-Mrs.
W. NJ. Jeffords's imported chestnut
colt, Golden Broom, won the Saratoga
Special for wo-year-olds at six far
longs here this afternoon in the fine
time of :12 As. The son of Sweeper
and Zuna romped home just as he
pleased-eased through the final fur
long. Four lengths behind trailed
Harry Payne Whitney's Wildair, while
Commodore j. X. L. Ross's King
Thrush, in third place, was only a nose
behind the Whitney colt P. A. Clark's
Bonnie Mary, which, as usual, refused
to break, and the others of the field
Of six were badly beaten off.
1t was only an exercise gallop for
Golden Broom. which, by his showing
to-day, puts himself in line for serious
consideration for the wo-ycar-old
crown of the current scason-a title
most turfmen had practically felt re-
signed to award to Man of War with
out further argument. Golden Broom,
Man @ War and Miss Jemima are now
hkely to set some real turf history in
deciding this pleasingly complicated
issue.
second Time on Track
by winning to-day's big feature Gold
en- Broom not only established himself
as a great colt but, aside from any
speculative interests that may have oc-
CURED, increased the Golfers of Mrs.
W. NJ. Jeffords by $500, not to mention
81 900 worth Of plate which was an
added guerdon.
II was the second time that Golden
broom, which early spring report had
was able to run away from Man of War.
had laccd the starter III a real test Of
speed and endurance. Last Monday the
son OF Sweeper went to the races for
thc first time. Ambrose at that time had
the mount and Golden Broom, after tin
canning away from a classy field, ran
away out and yet barely failed to land
IN the money. II. P. Whitney's Truly
Rural, Hasten On and Arrow Point
we're the only three Of the big field
70 beat Golden Broom. though the lat
ter ran d sixteenth at least further
than any Of them.
Protiting by his experience of Mon
day Ambrose took no chances to-day.
He had the rail position. An assistant
starter had Golden Broom by the head
when Cassidy sprang The barrier.
| Golden Broom broke behind the out
slders, but had such foot Ambrose was
able to race UP along the rail and to
| the front within the first hundred
! yards.
o,,,I.s The Whitney 2y sair were together two
first furlong. Right there Ambrose
wisely decided to take no chances
/ He took Golden Broom righ up
into his lap, holding him close
to the rail. The precaution "a
the part of Ambrose enabled Lotus
; With Wildair and Sande with King
/ hrush to get up close to the pace
makers heels as he rounded the near
! turn.
Finished Under Wraps
| Then for a moment Ambrose really
| let his mount down, and Golden Broom
showed what a really great colt he was
| He bounded away at will and simply
| lost the others. Almost immediately
| Ambrose went under wraps again, and
finished at least four lengths to the
! good, with his mount under heavy re-
! straint and fighting for his head King
Thrush killed off Panoply, but was
unable to take the measure of WilGair
in q spirited duel for the place.
Willis Sharpe Kilmer's great four
year-old colt Sun Brian finally came
into his own, and in unmistakable
fashion when he won the Champla;n
Handicap Of a guaranteed cash value
of $500 from a good field Of six tnor-
ough breds of various ages.
sun Brian was ridden by the vet
cran Willie kLapp and stepped the
nile and a furlcng in $50 nat-a new
rack record to beat his stabemate,
EXterminator, whica was ridden by
LOTUS, by length and half The
lid record OF :51 25 had stood for
seventeen years. 1t was established
IN August %, 1902, by Carruthers
Shieldss Advance Guard five-year-
Old under 129 pounds: Sun Briar car
ried top weight Of 128 pounds to-day
and beat the old mark by second and
! two tifths.
Good jockeyship on the parts of
Knapp and Lotus, who rode the Kill
| mer horses, was in q great degree re-
| sponsble for the ease with which Sun
| 8rlar stepped out to victory and d new
record. The fractional times were
o:l2, 0:23 4-5, 0:36, 047 3-5, l 90,
l: ID 1-5, 1:25, :37 1-5, 1:50.
Great Crowd Present
The largest crowd that was ever
assembled at historic Saratoga watched
the racing here this afternoon 1t was
| likewise one of the most representa-
tive. WillialA McAdoo and Admiral
Grayson were noticeable among the
casual visitors of the clubhouse.
The judges pulled one of their his
torc bones in the very first race, when
| they placed Sam Hildreths Out the
J Way, the favorite, second in the Platts-
burg Handicap, a place won by good
long neck by Midnight Sun. Indeed, many
thought Hildreth's colt failed TO get in
the money, so close was Wyoming to
him at the end.
1t was simply crime to take the
place away from Midnight Sun, but it
was characteristic OF such unjust YER
diets as those that robbed Fruit Cake
and Gloria France of commendable eff
forts within the last few days. This
dash was won by John Leonard's five
year-od brown gelding Assume Mrs.
f. Ambrose Clark's imported Elysian
won the steeplechase in drive from
j. E. Wideners Doublet, the favorite.
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