The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-22
HAPPY BOOK-MAKERS.
All the Four FavOrites B0Wled
Over at Oakland.
A Record Probably Set for Three FurlOng
Heats-Inkerman Makes Very Fast
Run-Racing Delays.

Although the track officials tried TO hurry
up the racing of the Oakland Jockey Club
at the Oakland course yesterday, what with
several runaways in the opening event, aud
the carelessness of owners in getting their
horses out, lache for which Phil Sieben-
thaler, the owner of Sheridan, was fined $25,
it was again o'clock in the evening before
race goers landed in this city after the days
sport AS a sample Of the delay menu, it
may be stated that it took until O'Clock to
decide the first race, a heat scramble, which
was set 10 be called up at o'clock.
The track was very fast, the weather not
to be exceled and the attendance fairly
large.
Considerable excitement was caused after
the second race by the attack with black
jack of Special Police Officer Ross upon a
half-drunken Stable-boy. Officer Ross is
hired by the club to guard the door leading
to the judges stand. For the past four years
Officer Ross has always guarded the gate.
The boy assaulted was trying to pass the
gate. and being denied admission on ac-
count of his intoxicated condition refused
TO go away. Officer Ross at once drew a
blackjack and struck him three severe
the grand stand, who saw the attack. to cry
out in horror, SObered up and semi-daZed
by the beating the boy retired some ten
feet from the gate and eXpostulated with
Ross. The latter left his post aud struck
him several times heavily in the face with
his fist. Before the boy could recover or
protect himself from Ross, he was seized,
hand-cuffed and packed off to Jail amid the
groans of the crowd. Officer boss then re-
Sumed his post.
Not one Of the favorites crossed the line
in the van and the boOk-makerS had regu-
lar benefit. In the heat race Amazon.
gOld-plated favOrite. ran away twice over
half mile, Evans, his Jockey, seemingly
unable 70 do anything to stop him. After
the second run Evans was called up by the
judges and questioned as to his Sobrlety,
there being some rumors that he was drunk.
His breath apparently cleared him OF the
suspicion, for he was allowed TO keep MS
mount. He showed the appreciation OF the
leniency by being distanced with Amazon,
thus presenting the b0Ok-makeTS with
miniature fortune. Mount Carlos, 10-tO-1
start. won the first heat, and Sleepy Fred,
another outsider, big draught-hOrse- look
ing QuadTuped. the next two, ana racer
Mamie c, third choice, at 2 10 l for the
seyen-furlong race, got of In front, and
aided by her hY-Speck weight rOmped home
an easy winner. 1t is hard to explain why
Nerva should have been made favorite
over Mamie, as the latter has much better
record this year than tie Boots mare.
Mamie ran some good races at the Bay Dis
tTjct Track during the BlOOd-hOrSe meeting,
and the public must have evidently lost all
recollection of her good performances.
Alfaretta and Wild Oats. the two longest
priced starters, ia field Of four, made hay
of Applause and Sheridan in the one and
three-sixteenth miles event. Applause was
an electric light favorte at 3 TO ., but tin-
iShed last Wild Oats ran an excellent race
and was only just beaten out by the mare in
fair time. Last Tuesday he won from the
same Identical field at one and an eighth
miles, with only So pounds up. Yesterday
he had up 119, an Increase OF 81, and was
only defeated by very small margin by
Alfaretta, whom he beat on Tuesday. On
Tuesday the mare carried % pounds against
III yesterday. For these two TO again run
first and second shows what throw ms they
were oil Tuesday. That Applause with 119
day was another of those eccentrlcities OF
betting no one can explain.
The race afforded that Nestor among
turf writers, Joseph Cairn SimpSGn-whOse
return from a visit to Chicago was hailed
with pleasure by his innumersble friends
an opportunity to again demonstrate that
he is without an equal IN racing knowledge
and as ever the standard authority Of the
Coast in all horse matters. lie and num-
Der of his friends among the reporters
made up cigar pool on guessing as TO the
| time the race would be run in, each con-
| tributor to write his guess on slip of paper
! Mr.. Simpson wrote down 2:04R as his
/ guess, while the others marked down 2:05 y,
! C6 and 2:O6b. The race was run in eX-
| actly 2:04B, and MIR. Simpson was an easy
| winner, dstancing his field.
| Inkerman was the real guava preserves
| for the last race at nIne-sixteenths. He
| was third choice. and won under Bally's
| clever riding by length in fast time,
| within three-quaTters Of a second OF the
record. Charley Boots Initiation was a
strong first pick, but like Nerya was never
in it. and finished fourth. The Elmwood
| stables entries are having bad luck, and
| Mr. Boots has the sympathy of all lovers Of
| honest racing.
The club has about definitely concluded
| to close the meeting with Tomorrow racing
| and not give the extra days at first contem-
| plated. In this they are acting wisely, for
| most Of the limited number of horses that
are now competing in the races are showing
| signs of track WEAKNESS, and the spectacle
| Of the same four horses running against
each other daily would soon have lost its
| attraction.
1t question if Sleepy Freds win in
| the heat race does not set the record at the
! distance, there being no mention in the
turf guides of any similar event ever having
| been regularly run.
| Yesterdays racing summary is as fol
| lows:
The Oakland TrOtting Park purse $780, Three
| 4 furiOHg heats.
Ia E; E. Handles g. g., 6. SLEEPY FRED, by
No1fe Csrios cb ii RoacS
sally Brown. .. m. g. ILL.,. cairns-oooper 3
Also ran: Amazon ll3, Evans (dis.), Legal Tender
10l. Murphy SAMMY li3, HiDky,
| Time, D :35 1a-O:36-0: 38
| No record is registered al the distance
| Betting. first heat-AuctiOns: Amazon $50, field
| $I3, Sleepy Fred SO Books: Amazon 3 to aud !
70 IS. Sleepy pred and to 5, Sally Brown TO
| . and TO 3. others 10 aud 3. Second heat-Auc-
| tions: Monte Carlos $50, Sally Brown $40, field
| Carlos TO 5, Sleepy Fred and TO 5, others o.
| and g. Third heat Auctions: Sleepy Fred $50
! Monte Carlos $lS Books; Sleepy Fred to 10
| Monte Carlos TO 5.
After several breaksaway, during which
| Amazon ran the route twice despite Evans
| efforts, and when Sallie Brown and Monte
! Carlos had done so twice, they got off in the
first heat, with Sally Brown and Monte Car
| los in the lead. Near home, Monte Carlos
| passed the mare ana won by a length, Sally
| Sleepy Fred Amazon, who got off none toe
well, was distanced. For the second heat,
| Sleepy Fred, after close finish from the
| stables, won by length from Monte Carlos,
| Sally Brown two lengths back. Sleepy Fred
won the third heat and race easily by two
lengths from Monte Carlos, who was
| whipped out.
~ upward Seven furOngs.
| w b, Sanborn's b. T., 3, MAMIE C, by Harry
King hooker a. il4...- Clancy
Zngarelia o. 1OI...'........ Roach
Also ran: Strawbacx a. i07. Cairns. '-''''
Neutrality-suspicious.: Nerva $40, King Hooker s26
1 TO 2. Hooker and 70 D, Mamie ~ and to 5
| ZIngarelia and 2, Strawbuck 10 and 4.
Mamie G popped off with good lead