New-York tribune., 1921-08-16
Modo Captures
Feature Troy
Selling Stake
Jock Scott Also Wins at Sara
toga: Robert Oliver Takes
Steeplechase in Easy Style


| SARATOGA. Aug. 15.--The Modo sta |
Selling Stakes, the feature of the card
| here this afternoon. The Rancocas Sta
bles Budana was second and third
money went to the Oakridge stables
Bantry Pass. Lucky Girl was the only
! one to dodge the issue, leaving six
fairly good youngsters to fight it out.
| AS soon as the field got in motion
Fator sent Budana to the front and
opened up gap Of three lengths. Ban
/ try Pass was in second place. with Yam
kee Maid third, Pastoral fourth, Modo
! fifth, and Tom Cassidy, the outsider,
last Rounding the turn Budana held
her advantage, but Yankee Maid moved
up a notch. Making the bend for home
Modo moved up fast and when they
were strightened out he was within
! striking distance of the leader.
| Opposite the eighSia pole, Modo nailed
Budana and went to the front with
hardly an seffort and won galloping by
three lengths. Budana was SECOND. six
! Maid quit to nothing in the final fur
long and finished q poor last.
Fifteen platers faced the barrier in
the first event Jock Scot was installed
! favorite and never left the result in
doubt after the first furlong had been
covered. The start was a struggling
one, but Sande got Jock Scot away we'll
and after racing Perigourdine into sub
mission drew out and won as he pleased
By six lengths. Perigourdine tired in
the run through the last furlong and
was beaten two lengths for the place
by Sagacity.
Favorite Is Beaten
The jumping race, second on the pro-
gratnme, was just a gallon for Robert
Oliver, Algardi, coupled with the win
ner, was second and Doubert. the odds
on favorite third Surf made the early
running, but making the last turn of
the field Robert Oliver went to the
front and was never headed, winning
under wraps by six lengths. Algardi
beat Doublet three lengths for the
place. New Haven fell at the Liver
pool, but was remounted by Rosen and
The Watervliet Handicap for three
year-olds and upward, over the mile
route, resulted in a pretty contest be-
tween the Rancocas Stables consistent
gelding> Thunderclap and c. T. Gray
sons mare Knot. There were five
starters in this event, but the other
three were never contenders. After
the field swung into the backstretch
Thunderclap and Knot drew away from
their company and then began as in
teresting duel as has been seen at
the meeting. They ran as team
and going around the turn they looked
like one horse. They turned for home
locked, with Thunderclap on the rail
and Knot at his side. Opposite the
eighth both sande and Keogh drew
their whips and rode like demons.
Twenty yards from the finish the
horses were on exactly. even terms,
but condition finally told and Thunder
clap got his nose in front in the final
stride. Had Knot been in the same
racing shape as the Rancocas crack
she might have beaten him home.
Another thrilling finish was wit
messed in the fifth race, when John
sanford's Killala just lasted to beat
Scotland Yet by the shortest of heads
Killa1a made all the running, but she
weakened in the final sixteenth and
Il barely lasted the journey out. Scot
, land Yet with great burst of speed,
would have won in another stride. Dart
moor was third, length and half
back. Sportboy, the favorite, was
fourth.
Bunting Shows Speed
Bunting, ri. Z. Whltneys highly
tried two-year-o old, made a show of his
company in the closing race, winning,
eased up, by eight lengths and cover
ing the five and half furlongs in
the remarkable time of :04 As, which
is one-ffth of second behind the
track, recor made by Tuscaloosa in
1918. Dexterous beat Snob II short
head for the place.
Secretary of Racing Earlocker has
placed on the program for the goth
a race for horses the bona fide prop
erty of army officers Of the United
States government, to be ridden by
ofscers Of the regular army of the
United States in uniform. 1t is for
three-year- olds and up, and under the
conditions the three-y -year-o olds are to
carry 1856 pounds and the others 100
pounds The distance is mile and it
is expected that considerable rivalry
will develop between the officers at
Washington and those located at West
Point and Governors Island. Thor
oughbreds make the best officers
mounts and there are a number of
fair performers on the fiat owned by
those who have been prominent in the
Federal remount service. The contest
ought to be interesting and novelty
to the visitors at Saratoga.
The United Hunts Racing Associa-
ton, of which H. A. Buck is the secre-
tary, announces a days racing at Bel
mont Park Terminal on Thursday, Sep