New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-31
Emotion Races
To Victory in
Spa Feature
Defeats Medina i'm the Test,
Causing One of Many Up
sets; Knobbie Is Winner
By-W. ]. Macbeth

Dy~W. j. NiaCDeCn
/ SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y, Aug.
30.-As was to be expected on such a
treacherous and uafa.homabla track,
to-day's racing was tlil Of surprises,
and none more so than in the feature,
The Test, for three-year- old f!lics at 81
mile and . quarter, when Il. L. Gcrry's
Emotion beat w. r. Thompson's Medina
with ridiculous ense. This victory es-
| tablishes Emotion. at the preuent Il.
least, the best FLY OF that division and
squares accounts for her defeat i'll the
| Alabama. Medina was the favorite at
| 3 to Of this two-horse race.
/ Many good judges do not believe the
/ race was won on its merits, however
| These lay the defeat of Medina to an
| i'll Judged ride on the part of frankie
Keogh, who made the pace with Medina
| just to suit Emotion. There was no
pace for almost mile, but McAtee
fooled Keogh evidently by laying cou-
pie of lengths behind Medina SO as to
make the test quarter mile sprint
rather than trial over distance Of
ground. Emotions victory was worth
$2,024.61 beside a $3.50 cup.
Another SURPRISE developed In the
second race wheis the Rancocas Stables
Knobbie came fran far back and out
gained j. E. Wideners old Naturalist
in the last strides of six furlongs
sprint. Fator put up million dollar
! finish to save the day, but his effort
uralist taken it into his head to sulk
| the last sixteenth. Wellfnder, 80 to
shot, finished third only because of
the fact that j. S. Cosden's Good Times
was left at the post.
Kippy Does Well in Last Race
Mrs. George w. Lofts Kippy, two
year-old chestnut Ally made an i'm
pressive debut in the final dash of five
furlongs. She stepped the distance in
1902, and simply ran away from Bud
Fishers Brocade after Strengthening
/ for the run home. j. S. Cosden's Gro
Chef finished with rush for the place.
Fator, who was up on Kippy, took back
off The early pace and came around the
Fisher FLY at the stretch turn,
The biggest surprise of the after
noon was the victory of Prince James
in the fifth race, at a mile, in which
Blazes, the heavily played favorite,
finished absolutely last in field of
four. Taplin made no move with
Prince James till rounding the home
! turn. Then he came through on the
rail, and in hard drive to the wire
outgamed the early pacemaker, E. R.
Bradley's Bit o. White. Prince James
was the medium of big coup, being
backed from Is to to 4 to /.
There was another upset in the
fourth, when Costigan, the outsider of
a field of four, raced down Bud
Fishers Muskallonge in the stretch
and won going away. sedgefield and
Tangerinee, the Wilson pair, were odds
on favorites Sedgefleld, the ace Of
this combination, was outrun all the
way and finished last. Tangerine, as
usual slow to begin, came with a rush
at the end, but too late to do better
than save the place.
The remark of the old, broken
negro as he listened to the IL O'Clock
factory whistle aptly describes the
Saratoga of tom orrow night when the
Kavanaugh Special pulls out for New
York. Said the darby: For some folks
it am dinnah time, but it's jes' plain IL
o'clock for .me.''
There is hardly corporals guard
left for to-morrow's big blow-off. The
city guard might fire it's cannon up
Broadway tonight without manning
more than couple. Three-quarters
OF the visitors, perhaps four-fifths of
them, have already gone home. So
that unless there is an unexpected
pilgrimage from New York and other
big. Eastern cities and adjacent towns
getaway day" tomorrow is likely to
pc somewhat tame in comparison to
other days of glorious memory.
And this is to be regretted. Secre-
tary Earlocker will be able to present
one of the very strongest cards of the
month. The running of the Hopeful,
by far the richest and most priced Of
the two-year-old classics contested to
date, should be an event of rare quail
ity if the weather continues fair. No
less than fourteen of the very best
juveniles have been named overnight
for this $45,0O0 classic.
IWenty-four hours ago it seemed as
| If the Hopeful might have been ruined
by the wet weather that prevailed for
1 several days. But a hot sun and
stiff. breeze all day to-day wrought
wonders with the course, which early
this afternoon was at it's deadest and
worst, and when the closing race was
run the dust was actually flying. BY
the running of the Hopeful tomorrow
afternoon the course should be fairly
/, good 1t cannot possibly be fast.
Three Hildreth Horses Entered
Sam Hildreth. wizard Of the RAN
cqeas Stable, who has annexed most
OF the stakes Of worth at this meeting,
is NOT overlooking any opportunity to
add the Hopeful to his list of achieve
ments. He has named no less than
three. Messrs. H. P. Whitney, j. S.
1 Cosden and E. r. Bradley will each
be represented by pair. Jimmy Rowe,
like Hildreth, is likely to saddle three
candidates, as he trains Barbary Bush,
OF the. Greentree Stable. Unless the
track improves beyond all reasonable
nope the Rancocas trio undoubtedly
will rule favorite in the Hopeful.