The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-16
TURF NOTES.
A Despised Outsider Wins a Very
Valuable Stake.
Close Ct the W6stchester Meeting Ecw a
Future Book is Made-T H Grifin's
Stable Of Fast Trotters.

Stable Of Fast Trotters.
On Saturday last the spring meeting of
the New York Jockey Club at Morris Park,
Westchester, came to a close after most
brilliant and successful session of twelve
days high-class racing, the best horses on
the turf sporting silk daily.
The track was faster even than last year
and records we're lowered at nearly all the
distances, particulars Of which were given
in last Mondays turf columns OF THE
CALL.
EASTERN COMMENTS.
Now that the meeting is over and the
Eastern turf writers have had chance to
digest their criticisms all that they have
found to condemn is the location Of the
press-stand, and on this point the Turf,
Field and Farm says:
Race reporting will become lost art with
few more courses like Morris Park and Sleeps
head Bay. With their straight tracks nothing
can be told of the starts, and but little idea
formed OF the relative positions OF the horses
coming, as they dO head on, until the short
races are more than half over. lille they make
the contests failures as slectaces until near the
end. the redeemlng feature That they insure
faiTer contests aud give all chance compensdtes
for the losI view of the starts. Now the report
ers can see neither The start nor the finish and
receive The information OF The distances between
The first three horses on Slip Of paper furnished
by The judges. certainly a very unsatisfactory
and unreliable manner OF reporting"
The facilities to reach the track have also
proved sadly insufficient
FELL OFF A LITTLE.
To some extent the racing on the last
three days of the meeting was not quite up
to the standard of the preceding DAYS
sport. owing to heavy rains which caused
much scratching and consequently small
fields even in some of the richest stakes.
THE ECLIPSE STAKES.
On Satu rday. the closing day, the richest
stake of the MT citing the great Eclipse
stakes for two-year-olds, value $4,000.
only brought out field of six, although
the original entries numbered 223. The
Morris stable. that has taken all the two
year-old stakes that were of any value,
sent out three champions, the cracks of the
year, namely Russell, believed TO be as
bride, DR.. Hasbr0ok and Reckon.
Against them Saliie Mcclellan, Bolero and
Hoodlum went TO the post. In the betting
Russell was considered invtncible and even
at TO 3 the book-makers hardly cared to
write a ticket. DR.. Hasbrook was next in
favor at 4 TO /, with Reckon third choice at
s to l. Bolero was priced at 10 To l, and the
two others at 20.
a RACING UPSET.
The result signally proved how uncertain
racing is and how blind hackers are, and
what ali easy thing it is for even good
judges to follow the money and not closely
scrutiniZe each horses chances. On a cool
comparison Of form it was not certainty
for the Morris trio.
OVERLOOKING A GOOD ONE.
Sallie McClelland who is bred as well as
anything now on the turf, whose ancestry
shows excellent wind powers, who was
known early in the spring to be as fast as
any two-year-old in training; who, in par
ticular, showed that she was equal to any
crack, by winning the Debutante stakes,
with lis pounds up. from large field, in
Guiding several OF Morris cracks, in the
record time Of 80 seconds for five furlOngs;
and who, later on, took up 40 pounds, and
giving weight TO winners ran third III six
furlongs, this high-class FLY was allowed
to start IN a six-horse field at 20 to to win
and S to for the place.
sALLY's A FAST Filler.
On Saturday she carried 115 pounds, and
the others as colts lis. The race was en-
tirely between Sallie and Russell. 1t was
a close contest over the muddy track, and
after a desperate finish Sallie won by bali
a length in 1;14 Her owner, Byron Nc
Clelland. won good stake over the result.
1t was verihcation Of form. and how she
was overlooked and thought not to have
chance to win is another Of those myS-
terieS that the race-track daily offers.
vIGILANT JUDGES
During the past week job was at
tempted in race between Watterson,
Major DAILY and Guard. A stabe-boy was
put up on Daily and Bergen on Watterson.
Watterson was made red-hot favorite at
Q to 5, and the Iumor quickly spread that
the rider of DAILY had been so selected to
make the race certainty Tor Natters0n.
The judges, when informed OF the situa-
Ia hpu fff Mol u M
ton up. This changed the betting at once,
and from ) to Daily went to first favorite.
The race was won handily by DAILY. An
investigation into the circumstances is 10
be made by the judges.
STABLE COMPANIONS.
On Friday Bravo and Now or Never,
both in the same stable, were the only con-
testants in race out of which all the
others had been scratched. Bravo was a
hot favorlte at to 2. Tie stable won with
Now-or-Never and the race was called a
walk-oyer. The judges declared the bets
off, but how are the combinations to be con-
sidered? OF course they are made out pay
or play, and are so considered under the
circumstances, but those eXtra-chance
takers, com binatiun-players, should also be
given little protection as well as the di-
rect SPECTATORS. 1t would not have been
any injustice for the judges to have ordered
that the combinations should be divided.
SUBURBAN DAY.
Tomorrow the COney Island Jockey Club
commences a two weeks meeting at Sleeps
head Bay and some excellent sport is already
assured. On the opening day the Suburban
handicap will be run. 1t is more than
probable that the field will be small and
that less than a dozen will start. Tenny is
now first fayorite and even with 127 pounds
up Is thought to be sure winner Race
land, Prince Royal and Fides, Salvador and
FirenZi, represe nting respectively the Bel
mont and Haggins interests, are next in
favor.
OTHERS HAVE A CHANCE.
Although Tenny has won three races this
spring in easy style, he will meet much
higher class of company on Tuesday than
he has yet done this year. 1t is quite posi-
BILE that despite all the talk of the certainty
of Tenny's starting that he may not do so.
Pulsfer Tenny's owner, is not racing
simply for his health. lie is closely afiil-
ated with some leading b0ok-makers who
have laid heavily against the colt. 9eSter-
days dispatches state that Tenny lid not
go quite as well as he did before, although
he beat Sorrento, his only opponent, by ten
lengths.
HE MAY BE SCRATCHED.
Pulsifer is said to have backed the colt
himself, but if his book-making friends
placed him on velvet on condition of scratch
ing Tenny so that the money they have laid
against him goes without any bother into
their pockets, would Pulsifer do it? That
remains to be seen. But even if Tenny
starts, with Raceand sent to the post with
Mr.. Belmont's confidence there is not much
need to look further for the winner.
POOR PROCTOR KNOTT.
Poor Proctor Knott and verbose gable
about his wonderful powers and the great
things lie can and is going to do seem in
separable. Last year Sam Bryant could
not find words enough to praise Proctor up
in. Now the Scoggan Brothers. who own
the colt entirely, have the same disease.
This is what they recently said to a CORE
spondent of the New York Spirit of the
Times:
ave VIII work him mile and quarter and IL
he covers IL in 2:09 he will be shipped East at
once. have no fears at all about his making
that time In his trial, for lie was never such Il
horse lie IS this spring. The big fellow and
English Lady will be shipped East about four
days before the Suburban is run. AS for the
Lady, consider her nothing short of a wonder,