The morning call., 1890-09-01
TURF NOTES.
Entries for the Golden Gate Fair
at Oakland.

Potomac's Rich Futurity - The Small Odds
offered by Book Makers-Eng :ish Derby
Entries for 1892.
The Futurity stakes. the richest prize of
the year, valued at $4,000, was won very
handily last Saturday at Sheepshead Bay
by A Belm0nt's colt Potomac, by st.
Blaise-Susquehanna. Hamilton up. Washer,
another colt from the same stable, ridden
by Bergen, was second. The time was
l:l4 Is, very slow indeed. 1t was the third
running Of the event, and the first time that
the same owner got first and second money.
All the crack two-year-Olds, fifteen in num-
Der, started, and the race, with the vast
difference in weights, ranging from 105 to
$50, was considered very open one. Po-
tomac has shown up very well before and
was made the favorite. Rey del Rey was
fourth, and finished only head behind
Strathmeath, who was third, the same dis
lance behind Washer
WHY TIE TIME WAS SLOW.
There was long delay at the post, the field
being very fractious and to this cause the
slow time is probably due. Considerable
betting was done in the local pOo-rooms. and
some wagers were made at to that the run
would be made in ;09R. Last year the stake
was won by Protection, owned by Bob Camp
bell, Baldwin's c0lored trainer. Campbell
was so poor before the race that he could not
pay his hotel bill. 1t is believed that he
squared up his accounts after the races. This
tire it was millionaire's time to succeed.
The Morris stable, which has captured nearly
all the rich twG-year-old stakes this season,
had Ambulance and Russell in, but neither of
them, though repeated prev Gus earnerS of
brackets, showed up at the finish.
GoLD-wINNING FLIEEs.
Salvador has won for his owner Sis $50 in
stakes and purses, While FirenI has SI02, 026
to her credit. 1t is possible that Mr.. Haggin
may take a han in the big English handicaps
next year with the two cracks. There is good
reason for believing that Mr.. Haggin will
send them across the ocean to measure strides
with the Hover of the English turf.
CONCLUDED MEETINGS.
Last Thursday saw the last of the Saratoga
and Monmouth meetings, and deep sigh of
relief went up from the plucked public. who
have been 50 numerically hit over the rae
ing at both places this season. Two more
disastrous meetings tor the public it would
be hard to fndin turf annals. The in and
lie form has gone out of sight. The book
makers at Monmouth especially made for
tunes, and the public lost them. In this con-
nection the New York Tribune says:
Never has a race course in any country been
so constant aud rich a source of profit 10 the
bOUkmakeis as lie new Monmouth Park, with
It's wonderful straight tracks. Ii was predicted
with The most conspicuous emphasis and as
surance that when we had the fauliless and
altogether admirable English courses in this
country there would be no more strange varia-
tons of public fOrm that horses would no longer
be pocketed or interiered win, that the best
horses would carry OFF The prizes, and that the
public with united voice would join in the
hearIest approval of the plan OF starting horses
at Eltont0wn and running them TO Little Silver.
with the coutesiIng aumals out OF sight OF the
spectators for nne-tentns OF the way. Unless
these spectators were provided with the most
powerful and expensive field glasses In the
world. But for some ineXplicabe reason the
expected results have not beeD attained. There
are more singular and eccentric variations OF
form 2t Monmouth than ever occurred before on
any race-track in the world. The great mass OF
racr-gOers an more profoundly bewildered daily
In the impOssbiy OF getting the least indication
how horses Will run in any particular race from
the manner III which they have run In previous
races. II may be that the somewhat unsettled
and uncertain condition OF the new tracks at
Monmouth may account for some OF these wild
Vagarles, but although there may be soft spots
here and there, moduatoDs OF consistency and
dvefsltie5 OF compactnesS In lie makeup OF
these tracks, sti these ins aud cuts of The area
could not possibly explain all the ins and outs OF
The running OF any large percentage OF them.
In truth, all the unfortunate and vegetable ele-
meuts OF racing ale even more prevalent and
more Injurious az Monmouth than on the oval
course mentioned. Mr. WitberS may yet have to
revise his ideas. Britannia is wonderful coun-
Try, ana in some turf matters she IS still far
ahead OF the United States but that the English
system OF running horses on straight courses will
become more popular In this republic than the
good old American fashion Of oval tracks is
any hing but plain at present.
CINCH ODDS.
Book-makers can always be depended
upon to look very closely after their own
interests III offering as small odds as they
possibly can. Locally the odds offered in
the pool rooms are ridiculously low and
utterly out of proportion to the true risks of
the racing. The largest price laid here,
even on the largest fields, is 80 10 1 straight
and 10 for the place, thanks to an amcabe
understanding among the booking combina-
ton. Yet at the tracks East, in almost
every large field, as high as 100 to / is laid.
The Sportsman, alludiug editorially to the
subject, says:
Ii is only necessary 10 look daily at the quota
tons offered by tie book makers upon the differ
ent events at any meeting In order 10 see how
DARING an advantage tile pencllers take OF the
absence OF the old familiar mutuel pool boxes.
That tue Paris mutueI system is calculated to
teach book makers 10 offer consistent odds
body will deny. we believe. who recalls the efect
produced in days now past. 1t can be but
question of time when the Arrangements of the
la ger tracks viii realize that the public must be
served In this as IN other equally important mat
teTs. At the last SDtlng meeting At MoTrls Park
il had been the intention OF the management 10
provide excellent facilities for the purchase and
sale OF mutue POOL tickets. but something in tie
electrical mechanism OF the arrangement-or was
it The book makers protesi?-preyeDted. Mutuel
tickets were sold. 1t Is true, but -, and SO on.
What use TO argue these matters which touch
the strong box? 1t Is only the publc's privilege
10 compare the odds offered here aud in England,
aud wish hopelessIy for The semblanee of share
in The financial slaughter Which occurs day after
day.
against favorites in England. Can we point to
one instance of similar beraty on this sid.
Three TO Que against the first choice IS very
common occurrence in tile old country. 1t Is
luxury In the new which is as rare as Northern
strawberries in March. Six To five against and
five to three on are speciailies OF the American
book-maker. He wOnld fall from his stand in
apopleciic dismay il you ask him for a feasoDa-
bic chance of finding The key OF his caslbOx.
And because lie pays Jockey club 500 per
diem the ball continues 10 roll, and the public
wallets to be rolled Hat as The succulent PANCAKES
Of Shroye Tuesday fame.
The ''bookicS' know when they have
good thing, and work it for all that it is
worth. Despite their continual complaints
that they are all heavy losers, most pc
cular state of affairs seeing that the out
side public is continually on its "uppers,"
another new b0Ok-making firm commenced
operations last Saturday, and will try t0 get
their share of the golden eggs laid by the
public goose. The unfortunate bird is,
however, nearly laid out, and VIII surely
soon stop operations.
TO LOWER TIE RECORDS
Next Thursday Sunol and Palo Alto will
be sent to beat the worlds records on an
Eastern track Ii the conditions are all ia
vorable Marvin will probably succeed and
get Robert Bonner's $1,000 offered if he beats
Maud s. record of 2:oSM. The result of the
two trials will be awaited with great inter
est by the horsemen of the State.
GOLDEN GATE FAIR.
To-day the Golden Gate Fair races COM
mence over the Oakland track. A good pro-
gramme has been arranged, and better con-
tests than have so far been seen at San jose,
Napa and Petaluma are expected. The
chasing throughout the circuit up TO date
has been very poor, two or three horses be-
ing so manfestly superior to the rest that all