Show SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST T Trainer of One Step W Most Surprised Spa When His Horse Hors Thought ought Water Blossom Was Sure Thing in Stake Race Saratoga Is Is No Place for Odds Ori L Favorites S SARATOGA Aug 21 Thin This le no place for odds odds- odda Many a aone aone one of them has haa been beaten here since the tho meeting metIn began and the end endI I not yet yot apparently Yesterday It was Water Blossom who came east with a as being the three three- year old star o the West and the tho highly regarded two old Maie I 1 There may have ibe n some excuse for Water Blos Blosom's defeat by older horses In the opening days day's Saratoga handicap but lUt before post poat time In the fourth who professes to know anything about racing was sure she was wan n a lay down Major McDowell her owner thought she waa a sure thing and ami for that matter so did every other owner and trainer represented In the race Peter Wimmer Wimmer Wim- Wim mer trainer t One Step Bald taId lie T be second but that the favorite run away from his mare I Water Blossom got away badly ant and couldn't make up any ground to speak of until the stretch was WaB reached A Athis At this stage Filigree the early paco paco- paco maker began to to back up but butt One Oho Step and omette Bleu Blen went right righton i on One Step n with plenty to spare and Bleu was see eec ond but Water Blossom was catching up with her belated rush It may have been the start Water Blossom and then again It may have hare been the tho track As Jimmy Rowe re remarked re- re marked It was one of the worst tracks Imaginable N could predict h he said with any any degree of certainty Just how any might run over ove It T To how bad the going was wae in ito out semi stage 1 it need only be noted that It took Sky LIlot thc event 1 minute find and 13 to run th the five and a half furlongs It has been many a day since there has been sue such V five and a half furlong race on a. a New York track Jimmy Fitzsimmons the ic ice for the Quincy Quincy- stable Tuesday when Success won but the a costly one because Success was run up from his entered selling selling- price o of 1000 to 2506 2505 by Frank Ft-ank Nolan Yea Tea put Sky Pilot Pilo over over over-In in the opening event only to have havethe the colt bid up from 1000 to to 1805 by W. W J. J Spiers tr which finished second I Andrew DIsturber from John W. W Schorr yesterday mornIng morn morn- Ing for 2000 colt ran as a ahot I hot favorite in the opening event He Ho HoI I performed ver very badly for a It favorite I indicating that he is nothing wonderful wonder wonder- I ful as a. a race horse I I J. J ii E. E Wideners Widener's Valentine was I backed with confidence In the Jumping Jump Jump- I lag ing race raco considering that It was her I first appearance o over the tho obstacles alot of speed and Jumped I well but tired after going three three- I quarters of the distance Marry Harry Stevens stands out among the race track caterers Judging by bythe bythe the superior service service- obtainable at the tho track these days Harry has made track luncheons dally daily society oci ty events Hardly a day passes without several clubhouse parties both before and I after race raco time usually attended by bythe bythe the best folk in the society arid and racing rae rac I ing worlds Yesterday among the tho en entertainers entertainers en- en I In the clubhouse were Mr I and Mrs Payne Whitney Schuyler I Parsons and Joseph Widener Jr In the opinion of good Judges no nobody nobody no- no body but ut little Judy could have havo got Eddie Delling home first fIrt in the fifth Judy only as big bis as the proverbial nt n a and orico ico knothole at the far turn in front was was' nver never caught a Ho lost his whip In the that didn't caze the youngster When San Vega little used his hands hands' as a whip vigorously and nd Eddie Delling Del Del- ling seemed to like that kind of persuasiOn persuasion per per- suasion so well that he be responded S gamely In the Prince of Conio's Conios victory Flash stakes over the to 5 shot Marse Henry was simply astory 61 Of the path Breaking from the rail position he lie got the path and stayed on it to the endi forgetting to quit as s does in the stretch Marse Marso Henry and Malachite meanwhile meanwhile mean mean- while were In the tough going and they be became ame weary negotiating it The path lies right along tie the rail ral all all' the way round It has been the part of the track during the wet spell |