The sun., 1919-08-07
FRUIT CAKE FIRST,
BUT LOSES RACE
At Least So Declares Race
gOers When Herodias Is
Placed in Front.
~ HENRY V. KING.

! SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. &C. II. Pet
tingill made one of the worst blunders
Of the decade here to-day in announcing
the winner of the third race. He placed
w. r. Goes gray flly Herodias first
when as a matter of fact she was
beaten by A. X. Macomber's bay mare
Fruit Cake by half length. Mr.. Pet
tingill was the only person among the
$4,000 racegoers present who said Mr..
Goes f1lly finished in front
Interviews with more than a hundred
persons who viewed the finish from diff
ferent angles brought the same answer,
that Fruit Cake had scored a decisive
victory. Men in the grand stand, to the
left of the finish line. men and women
In the boxes. on a direct line with the
finish, men standing on either side Of the
judges stand and men and women In
different parts of the clubhouse agreed
that the aged judge had pulled bone"
Even members of the Jockey Club de-
clared Fruit Cake finished in front. Five
Of them said so, but all refused to talk
for publication. Jockey Hummer, who
rode Fruit Cake, said he won by a
length, and Jockey McAtt. who had the
leg up on Herodias, refused to talk.
! When the numbers were posted hun
dreds of racegoers gathered about the
stand and Missed the aged judge for sew
eral minutes
Herodias Falters at Finish.
The result was not even close. Fruit
Cake caught Herodias twenty yards
from the finish and gained with every
bound until at the end she was good
han length in front and going away.
Herodias ran an exceptionally fine race
and deserves credit for 1t, but she did
not earn the purse. She had a world of
early speed and quickly opened up a
gap of three lengths on her opponents.
AT the final furlong pole she began TO
falter and sixteenth of a mile from
home Fruit Cake was within striking
distance. In the subsequent jumps He
rodias ho'sted the distress signal and
Fruit Cake came with a rush and went
past her without Hummer doing his best.
1t was the third straight victory for
Herodias and 1t tickled Mr.. Coe ip-
mensely. She is one of his pets. She
is three-year-old imported gray hlly
by The Tetrarch and Honora. Mr.. Coe
bought her in England with sixteen other
being a real good racing mare she is
lone Of the most Intelligent horses on the
q turf
An Intelligent FLY.
Daily she shows almost human In
telligence and like humans she has her
likes and dislikes. She isn't fond OF
William karrick. her trainer He makes
her work But never did any kind OF
animal show such fondness for a person
as she displays for Alonzo Aiken, the
negro hostler who has charge of her
, Unless he Is at her side she will neither
eat nor sleep.
All the other stable hands can hear
, her stall with feed, but unless Red, as
the negro is called. is present She will
not touch 1t. And II Red fails to sleer
in her stall she won't sleep. II she
feels like either eating or sleeping IN
the afternoon she will go to the door
of her stall and whine until Red ar.
rives. TO make her lie down 1t 1.
necessary for him to build a bed OF
straw for himself and lie on 1t. A
minute or two after he is asleep OF
pretends he is asleep she throws herself
to the ground and lies beside him
Kinnoul Wins the Albany.
Walter NJ. Jefford's Kinnoul, a two
year-old son of Peter Ounce and Iyche,
Nut, ran or with the Albany Handicap
the feature Of the programme. He dis
Played a great burst of early speed ant
unlike most Of Peter Ounce colts die
. not Quit when challenged. He led from
the start and won in driving finish by
length and half from Kallipolis. Pau
Jones was third.
1 II was Kinnoufs first appearance un
der silks since the Pimlico meeting, a
which he was the star juvenile. He /,
particularly fond of the mud and tn,
track to-day suited him.
Elysian, the imported four-year-ol,
gelding which Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarl
recently bought from Tim Donohue
proved to-day that he is a cross countr,
horse far above the ordinary. He VOL
the Weldship Handicap In such impress
sive style as to warrant the belief tina
he VIII go on to better things and Civ
a good account of himself in the richie
and more famous stakes to come late
in the season.
He carried only 1873 pounds. but h.
cleared the obstacles faultlessly an,
showed an abundance of speed on tn
fiat. At the end of the two mile jour
ney he was gallopjnR four lengths ii
front Of Raj PARIS old campaigner Rob
: ert Oliver.
In the last race, at five and IA hal
furlongs Raj Parr's Blazes, a son o
Wrack and Blazing Star, scored an cas-,
victory over a big field of high elias
juveniles. He won eased up by tel
lengths
Franc Tireur. a 100 to shot. finishes
second, and End Man, carrying tn
colors OF George d. Wldener, was third
Musgrave Reinstated.
Phil Musgrave. the Jockey, was re
instated to-day. At special meeting
OF the Jockey Club he was granted
license to ride. He will be seen in tn
saddle to-day.
Musgrave has been ION the ground
for five years. He earned the wrath o
the turf authorities for a bad looking
ride on Frederick L. at Laurel In 1914
He will ride for Samuel Ross the Wash
ington, d. c., sportsman. Before hi
suspension Musgrave was a first elias
Jockey. He is a lightweight and ca
$ ride at 104 pounds.
DONALDSON TENNIS VICTOR.