New-York tribune., 1921-08-04
1ody, at 5 to l,
Beats Choices
La Spa Feature
Burch's Filly Outruns Ar
ratt and Billy Mclaughlin;
Sixth Winner Disqualified
By w. ]. Macbeth

SARATOGA, Aug. 3.-W. P Burch's
three-year- chestnut flly Tody,
under spirited ride by Jockey L. Nc
Atee, won the Seneca Handicap, at six
furlongs, the feature event of some
what ordinary card here this afternoon.
Tody beat Harry Payne Whitney's
Arratt, the heavily played favorite, by
two lengths, while the Redstone Stables
Billy Mclaughlin finished third, two
lengths to the rear of the Whitney
gelding.
Tody furnished one of a series of
surprises, as she was an outsider in the
betting. 1t was not the first time she
surprised the talent at Saratoga. At
last years meeting, as a wo-year-old,
Iody took the track with a field of fair
performers and galloped home an easy
winner at the fancy price of 80 to l.
She paid as high as to l to-day.
The Rothstein connections played
Billy Mclaughlin as if it were the best
thing of the meeting, and quickly ham
mered down the odds from to l to
to /. There was also strong support
for the favorite. But when it came to
racing there was little to it but Tody.
Poor Work at Barrier
McAtee quickly raced his mount to
the front, and after taking a lead of
c ~ple of lengths sat tightly with
snug hold Arratt was the contender
all the way. Billy Mclaughlin dropped
into third place when Guvnor, which
had been prominent in the early run
ring, stopped badly at the end of the
half mile.
The starting, by the way, was excep-
tionally poor. Perigourdine, Is to l
shot, gained the brackets in the first
race because the favorite was left at
the post. This was w. R. Goes Pa
haska, which was coupled in the bet
ting with the Oneck' s Stables Frizlet.
1t was the same kind of start that
eliminated Hobey Baker, the favorita
in the fifth race at a mile Salmon's
eelding was five lengths behind
struggling field as he came out of the
chute. He never had q chance for the
big money, though he closed resolutely
through the stretch.
With the favorite out OF it, Lady
Gertrude, another long shot, had little
Fair Gain, which closed an even IA
vorite with Hobey Baker, followed the
pace for nearly a half mile, then
chucked it, S. A. Clopton's Parader
closed with a great rush and had Lady
Gertrude straight as a string at the
end Parader would have won in an
other stride. Hobey Baker was within
two lengths of the pair at the end.
Coe Winner Disqualified
The proverbial tough luck of the
Coe Stable was very much in evidence.
AS has been told, Pahaska was beaten
in the first race through being left.
Arapaho three-year-old gelding, won
the last rcce at mile, but was dis
qualified The disqualification gave
the race TO 4 trent Events. Briganna
got the place and Coming took third
money.
Araphoe was disqualified for slam
ming Briganna. a 15-to-1 shot, as the
field approached the far turn. This
one had worked her way up steadily
from the ruck and was threatening the
leader The humping knocked Briganna
back ten or a dozen lengths and prob
ably cost her the race, but she came
right back and finished out so courage
ously that Current Events barely nosed
her out of the place. Araphoe, how
ever wa< simply breezing at the finish.
In the Lake George Handicap at a
ME the Westmount Stables hve-year-
old chestnut horse Sennings Park beat
the Rancocas Stables Thunderclap
after a duel through the stretch. Earl
Sande, star jockey of the Rancocas
Stable, rode the winner; Laverne Fator
had the leg UP on Thunderclap. 1t was
a whipping finish through the last fur
long. and right at the end Sennlngs
Park outgamed the Rancocas candi-
date Paul Jones finished third.