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Show Freak Electrical Storm Fells . Eight Hirsch Saratoga Entries . SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, July 27 (AP) Max Hirsch's challenge for Saratoga's rich stakes has been weakened as the result re-sult of a freak electrical storm which Monday knocked out eight of his horses, three of them highly regarded. deUrmln whether the shock will have any serious effect on hi hones. "When the lightning struck I was having lunch in my kitchen, cloee to the barn. I felt something strike my foot and guessed what it was. The next thing I knew the chef was lying flat on his back. He apparently ap-parently had been struck by the same bolt that clipped m on the foot," said Hirsch. . When the trainer reached th stat bio, th stricken animate were staggering stag-gering about and felling in the yard. "They looked like a lot of drunken drunk-en horses," he said. Th storm, which killed W. S. Kilmer's Kil-mer's little) known 2-year-old Gino Viva, felled Dawn Play from Robert Rob-ert Kleburg's King ranch, Mrs. Julia M. Loft's Moeawtr. Mrs. Parker Par-ker Coming's Thanksgiving and five others. Dawn Play, champion 8-year-old filly of th year, won th Acorn and Coaching club Oaks at Belmont park before traveling west to take the American derby. Mosawtre is highly regarded among the 1-year-olds, while in Thanksgiving the veteran trainer haa a promising candidate can-didate for juvenile honors. Hirsch said it would be two or three days before he'll be able to |