The morning call., 1891-08-17
RACING GOSSIP.
Review of the Baden Race at San
Jose Last Week.
Rumors That the Gelding Was Chloroformed
The Feeling About Jockey Carillo-The
Coming Napa Fair.

1aklng IL from racing point OF view,
the States fair circuit opened most aus
piciOuSly with the first number on the pro-
gramme, that Of Sfn Jose. Out of the SIX
days racing the only event, the 2:27 $1,000
. purse last Saturday, in which the Baden
tasco occurred. was unsatisfactory. What
ever the reason might be the Piedmont
gelding was not at all in the fix he was
when he won two good races in straight
heats at the Breeders meeting, Two weeks
ago.
Some think that the extreme heat made
% him sour, but the majority Of horsemen be-
lieve that the horse was fixed" before he
came out for the first heat. The dizziness CT
his eye was especially noticed, and at the
seventh score, some OF the best judges, who
ID closely observed the horse in his pre-
Ftous races, hurried 10 buy the field and
Mckinney against him. both in the auctions
and mutuals.
The rumor was circulated last night that
Baden had been chloroformed before the
first heat. Some of the keeneSt hOTsemen
are investigating the matter and the proba-
blitles are that most sensational expose,
which will include some leading pool-buy-
ers, VIII shortly be made. In these days
when a horseman cannot move without a
hundred OF the keenest eyes following his
every motion, and with hundred watches
being held on him, coupled with the fact
that the turf reporters, with few eXcep-
tons, know horse from 4 handSaw and do
rot hesitate TO say so in print, it is most
difficult for wrong TO be done without an
mixing Of the truth leaking out and being
fully investigated. How the Judges in the
stand at San Jose failed TO order an i'm
mediate investigation, especially after
Hlckuk, Baden'S driver, had notified them
after the heat that he suspected something
WAS wrong with the horse, passes under
standing.
SAN JosE's RECEIPTS.
Taking next the financial results of tha
meeting it may be reasonably assumed that
the expenses and receipts ara not Very far
apart. The largest gate receipts were on
Thursday, when hundreds were lured into
y attending on the strength of the belief that
Palo Alto would go against the stallion mile
record. That day about $500. representing
1000 patrons al so cents head, was paid in
admission fees. All the privileges, iuclud-
ing the bar, were let to one bidder for
S2500, equal to 500 day for the SIX days
As this bidder sublet anything and every
thing in which there was adOllar, he pre-
sumably made good profit out of the deal
Where the association derived its main in
come was from tie percentage on the bust
ness Of the auctions and mutuals. The
booksellers charge per cent commission in
the auctions and ) per cent in the mutuals
Ont Of these returns the booksellers turned
over to the association % per cent and re-
tanned 50. Owing TO the daily heavy specu-
latIon the money passing through the pool
and mutual boxes was very large and the
commissions IL proportion.
Should an earthquake suddenly swallow
up San Francisco, and leave San Jose in
tact il would not pay the latter place to
hold any more race meetings, for fully
thTee-ffths of the attendance came from
n San Francisco. 1t would have been much
greater bad the fair been properly adver-
tlsed. In the desire to economic on cents,
dollars were freely lost.
JOCKEY GARLIC.
When at the request of Ainsley Boots of
ire ElmWOOd ahle the RlOpd- Ace
zion granted Mr.. Boots permission for
FED GARLIC 10 ride for the stable during
the San Jose meeting they courteously per-
formed grateful act Although GARLIC
DID not bring Imitation in q winner on
Wednesday, lie did his very best TO do So
and Mr.. Boots was fully satisfied with
Carillo's work. In the. present dearth of
capable Jockeys on the Coast the limit
might be pressed somewhat, and Garlic
granted chance to retrieve his mistake. with
Al tarrow two years age. He fully realizes
that crooked business does not pay, and that
those who tempted him were the first TO de-
sert him when the pinch came. The next
meeting where the ElmwOod stable starts
Is at Oakland, and If the wishes Of the horse
men meet with recognition GARLIC might
be given furt her trial extension, with the
understanding that at the least suspicious
riding on his part he would be forever ruled
= on, and never given another chance under
any consideration. A Jockey riding under
the certainty OF final expulsion if he does
not do his very best viii certainly not jeo-
paTdize in the least his chances, and thus
the public would be assured that at least one
Jockey in race was out to win at any cost.
NAPA's COMING FAIR.
Tomorrow Napa commences its annual
fair meeting Judging from the programme
il ought to be n most interesting one. Many
OF the local horSemen will take trip up the
country TO see the harness division compete
for the liberal purses that are offered
The pacing stallion /. c. Lee, 2I5; the
trQttPT Magnet 10 ND tba
three-yeaT old lilly Elsie S, by Superior
2:Ii14, are part OF the racing string of Du
Bols Brothers of Denver, Colo, that will
figure on the Wesieru-Southern circuit this
fan.
NOT THE GOODWIN.
The telegraph report that one of the Good
win Brothers, publishers of the Turf Guide.
had been shot and killed in New York by a
aelous husband proves TO have been erro-
L75us, as the enterprisiug publishers are
both alive and in the enjoyment of good
health. man by the name of Goodwin
was killed under the circumstances men
toned IN the press dispatch, but he is not
In any way connected with the turf publish
ers of that name.-Horseman.
Potomac, the great son of st. Blaise and
Susquehanna, has broken down, and his
owner NJ. f. Dwyer, has turned him out
Potomac's last race was run at Jerome Park
two weeks ago, when lie won the Barnegat
stakes at mile and a half. BE pulled up
IN good condition after that event and it was
believed would not agalD suffer from his old
trouble. After he went to his stable how
ever, lameness developed and the old crack
IN his hoOf reopened and the great racer
was crippled. He will probably be retired
to the stud.
BUYING THE SHORT END.
The remarkable success of the buyers of
the short end during the Breeders and San
Jose meeting has been fully detailed each
day in the turf reports of THE CALI. 1t
remains TO be seen if this luck will hold out
all through the circuit. Napa will be a
pretty good test if the system will hold out.
The experience of the past is that luck is
certain to turn, the only thing being TO
ascertain when it really does turn. Possibly
Napa may be the turning point, and the ia
vOrites secure just as many decisive victo-
ries as the field has done at the two past
meetings Even should this prove to be the
case, the shOrt-end players cannot complain
for their gains have been sufficiently large
TO admit OF the fayorites winning race after
race, and still leave them well ahead of the
game.
Charles T. Boots now has nine ''bang-
tails' in training, viz: Installation, Initia-
ton, Nerya. Index, Nabeau, Sir Walter.
ElmwoCd, Ledon, Ledor and Bayard, the
latter half-brOther to Hermes.