New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-18
keoggh's Riding
Helps Pegasus
Lead Juveniles
NIontford Jones Colt Cap
lures Grab Bag Handicap:
Sande Pilots 5 Winners
By w. !. Macbeth

BY w. J. Macbeth
SARATOGA, Aug. 1.-THE Grab
Bag Handicap, one Of the juvenile
fixtures OF the months meeting at the
Spa, was won by Montford Jones's bay
colt Pegasus, by virtue of frankie
Keogh's million dollar ride. 1t wasn't
what one could call a tremendously
popular victory, for Pegasus was one
of he outsiders, but colt and jockey,
both we're given fine ovation.
In a good many ways this years
running of the Grab Bag proved dis
appointing. Circumstances beyond Of
fetal control left reasonable doubt
the six furlongs test was not a real
one and that the best two-year-old
necessarily did not win. Mars Cas-
sidy got the field of twelve away in
good alignment, but there was a jam
almost as the barrier sprang and
many Of the most prominent contend
ers were eliminated before the race
began.
There was the heavily weighted Col
umn, for instance, which stumbled as
he was slammed and knocked to his
knees, losing his rider, L. McAtee The
favorite, William A, was completely
herded as a result of the tumble and
never did get racing room until we'll
down the home stretch when it was abb
solutely too late. The Glen Riddle
farms Oceanic suffered an atrocious
ride at the hands of Ambrose, and if
there is not an official Investigation of
this ride the writer viii be greatly sur
prised.
Oceanic was full of running, but Am
brose kept taking up and taking up
The colts mouth was wide open up the
back stretch and around the turn Am
brose didn't turn Oceanic loose until
furlong from home, and he took the
overland route from start to finish.
Pillory Finishes Strong
An even dozen of the very best two
year-olds, barring Norwich and Miss
Joy, went to the post for the Grab Bag,
which fact doubtless WAS responsible
for the unsatisfactory manner in which
it was run. There was rot ore that
went to the post but might have won
with the break in the luck, for Pegasus,
the winner, dropped out Of the clouds
Pegasus ran the three-uuarters in the
fir time OF / II As, but he won simply
because Runstar and Surf Rider raced
themselves into tho ground throughout
The first half mile. Neither had any
thing left by the time they hit the
eighth pole.
Keoeh, who saved every possible inch
Of ground, worked up on the rail
squeezed through a knothole at the
ing Surf Rider at the sixteenth Phi
loly, which finished third, came with a
tremendous burst of speed and failed
by only one stride to beat the tired
Surf Rider out OF second money.
1t was a great day for Earl Sande
The star rider of the Rancocas Stable
lad three winners in four mounts. He
won the secondary feature. the fourth
race, with the Greentrec Stables
Touch Me Not was ill-behaved as a
something to say as to the disposition
o. the three yearold champ ionship.
Touch Me Not, was ill-behaved as a
tv,o-year-old, but today he broke kind
ly and stepped right to the front
There might have been a different
story had Kelsey been wide awake with
Our Flag This one came out of the
mile chute eight or ten lengths behind
the field, yet finished a good second
and full of running. Deva station, the
heavily played favorite, was knocked
back By Polly Ann at the half-mile post,
after which accident the little black
gcldirg did not have an opportunity to
show his real form.
Tryster First in Opener
Tryster, the two-year-old champion
of 1920, which was unbeaten as d two
vear-old but which ran disappointinely
IL both the Kentucky Derby and the
Treakness last spring, was brought
back to the races after a long rest and
won the opening event in impressive
style. Sandc had the mount, of course,
Tryster, which was a 1-to-4 favorits,
simply breezed in front all the way
throughout the six furlongs. which he
OF the eighteen named over night &c
beat him. those scratched being the
better of the original field
Sandes last winning effort accounted
for the final race. He was the leg VI
on John Z. Maddens Deadlock ane
made every post winning one. Frank
Turst, which finished a good second
might have beaten the odds on choice
had he not been slammed at the start
and knocked out Of his stride. He was
running over Deadlock at the end.
Peccant, which was coupled with
Overmatch, and which was equal favor
lie with Sea Bryn, simply galloped
home ahead Of the latter. Peccant
went to the front for Norman Brooks
when ready. fenced perfectly and can
tered home after taking the last fence
Overmatch was third, as three of the
SIX that started fell.
Among the visitors to the track was
Major Charles K. Scott, of the Federal
Remount Service, who viii give talk
on the movement following the sale
OF the Xalapa Farm yearlings at the
Fasig Tipton sales paddocks on Fri
day evening. He Will show, through
the medium Of stereopticon slides, ex-
nmples of the type OF stations the
Federal authorities have distributed
( + sroughout the country.