New-York tribune., 1920-08-27
W. r. Goes Filly Wins the
Huron Handicap in Easy
Manner From Fast Field
By W. ]. Macbeth


SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. Aug
26.-W. R. Goes three-year-old fill,
Cleopatra proved herself one of the
greatest mares in training by the man.
ner in which she won the Huron Handi.
cap, the feature event of to-day's rae.
ing card.
Cleopatra galloped home in front OF
high class field in the easiest imagin.
able fashion, covering the mile and
three-sixteenths in 1855, and thereby
tleing both the track record and this
worid's record for the distance, which
mad been established by J. X. L. Ross's
great Cudgel on August Is, 1918. Cleo
patra, hard held throughout the entire
stretch run, beat out A. II. Diaz's Blue
Wrack by more than three lengths
Blue Wrack was in turn a couple of
lengths ahead of Raj PARIS Blazes.
From practically every standpoint
this years running of the Huron was
as sensational as could we'll be
Imagined, for though Cleopatra, as
public choice, was unusually we'll SUD.
ported, there was balance to the
field which left the issue very open
one, and every candidate had his fol
lowing.
Well Ridden by McAtee
McAtee displayed sound judgment
and excellent horsemanship in his
handling of the speedy Coe mare. At
we start Rodriguez rushed to the front
from an outside position, and, taking
the rail at the first turn, soon opened
a lead of a length at the top of the
backstretch. McAtee rated back Of
this heartbreaking pace until the far
turn was reached, then he moved int
the lead at will and finished in a com
mon gallop. There is no doubt that
had anything been able to press Cleo
patra the filly could have established d
a record for the distance likely to
stand long time
Blue Wrack, which was always close
up and which was ridden admiral bly by
Sande, first disposed Of Ethel GRAY and
then moved on UP to try conclusions
with Blazes. Blazes in the mean time
was pretty badly used up as result Of
trying to match strides with Cleopatra
and Sande was able to cinch the place
almost 8 easily as McAtee won the
race.
The Glen Riddle Farms Dinna Care
which was the second choice, ran an
unusually dull and sluggish race and
trailed the field of seven home after
trailing practically all the way.
1t was an unusually successful day
10: the players, as favorites divided
the card with the outsiders and liberal
prices prevailed against the chances of
the winning favorites. Cleopatra, a
legitimate 4 to ) shot, paid as high as
favorite of the fifth race, at a mile
Won just as easily as Cleopatra, and
his market price was 6 to 5. Our Flag
which won the third, was as good as
2 TO /.
Harry Payne whtneys two-year-
olds have begun to assert that class
of which they have always been sus-
pected and which only tough racing
luck in the main kept from being as
serted earlier in the campaign. Broom
spun. which encountered all the tough
breaks in not less than three Of his
previous starts, finally came into his
own in the closing sprint of the day
at five and a half furlongs.
He took the measure of high-class 5
field of nine. very temperamental
colt, he behaved shamefully at the bar
rier, but Ambrose succeeded in getting
him of we'll from the rail position,
soon raced him into the lead and made
every post a winning one. Grey Lag,
the favorite, was always close to the
pace, but could never hope to race
down the pacemaker. Normal ran third
all the way The others were all
beaten off ten lengths or more.
Chimera at so to I Wins
Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons saddled
Chimera, the so to shot that beat out
Glen Well. favorite of the opening dash
at six furlongs Sunny jim" was
looking out of the window, however,
while the melon cutting was going on.
1t was a case of money dropping from
nowhere out of the clouds with steed
the trainer didn't suspect had any
chance to finish one two, three.
About the biggest surprise Of the af
ernoon came in the second race, at a
mile, when Frank c. Keogh scored with
John Sanford's Alphee over Milkmaid.
Sande put up a fine ride on the IA
vorite and saved a lot OF ground, but
never could get within striking dis
tance of the pacemaker
The third race, at six furlongs, sell
ing affair for two-year- olds, was only
a romp for Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Our
Flag He went into the lead at the far
turn and won in canter. 1t is pos
sible there might have been a different
story had Callahan got off better with
J. j. Murphys Mavourneen. This one
practically left at the post, made up
twenty-five lengths racing to the out
side AL the way, ran over all the rest
of the field and cinched the place.
1t is probable that Man O War vii
start in the Saratoga Cup on the
closing day of the meeting. Friends
of Mr.. Riddle have urged him to run
the horse in this race in the belief
that it will not only fit him for thu
Realization at Belmont Park on the fol
lowing Saturday, but will convey ;
prestige that will be of incalcula BIZ
value to the great son of Fair Play
when he has retired to the stud. Thi.
morning Man O. War worked a mile
and a furlong in 1858 1-5 with con
summate ease. He loafed the first fvt
furlongs in 1:04 and then came hom,
like a train of cars on the down grade