The morning call., 1892-06-20
TALK OF THE TURF.
Grand Opening of the Oakland
Track Next Saturday.
Programme Of the Racss-Improvsments at
the Course-The American Derby-Latest
Racing Gossip.

Next Saturday the Oakland racetrack viii
be formally opened under Ben E. Wrights
management, when q programme Of three
trotting one pacing and one running race
will be discussed. Prior to this a grand
invitation banquet will be given by the new
proprietor to the members Of the local
tT0tting aud jockey clubs and the press in
the elegant new dining-roOm. The follow
Ing are the entries for the trOtting and
pacing races:
First race. TrOtting purse, 1925; for named
horses. Oscar Mansfeldps b. =. Con BIO u. e
Browns b. g Signal. Il. Fry's br. NJ. MollIe
PsIcnen, j. Smiths gr. z. Sport ana L. W.
Second race Trotllng purse, 1925; three
minute class. q. Mel ans b. 5. Pegasus, b.
jOhnsOu's b. s. Stembrldge II. GrOoms blk. 5.
Grand Moor, ami Z. Z. MOuens0u's s. M. Belle.
Third race. IrOttlng purse, $780, 200 class.
John COdys b z. Iujun ". JOhusOu's 81. z.
TEN, and ID. j. McCaTly's b. z. Our Jack.
Fourth rae Pacing purse, $50. j. d.
Stoups s. z. Oakland Prince, A. L. Kinds b. IN.
Laura d, aud +. Reese's b. &. Sample.
Entries close for the running race on
Wednesday. An admission fee Of 90 cents
will be charged. The lesseeis making daily
Improvements and additions to the track.
the latest being a new stand for the press.
which commands full and unrestricted
view Save for the old judges stand Of the
racetTaCk. The new stand viii be fitted up
with all cOnyen fences and reserved for
newspaper men exclusively. and all out
sideTs barred out. This IS as it should be.
A new stand tor ladies VIII shortly be cOu-
pleted, none but the fair sex and their
escorts being allowed 10 occupy it. The old
rickety judges stand will in due course be
removed and one erected on more modern
principles. The blJOd-hoTse people will
have to get to work soon, otherwise the
track across the bay Will prove a greater
attraction than the Bay District.
GABRIsON'S FINISH.
The splendid finish ridden by Snapper
Garrison on Montana in the Suburban
handicap on Saturday was the principal
topic of conversation yesterday at those
places where the local hOTsemen love to cun-
gregate. Many were Of the opinion that
Lanley threw away the race on Major
DOmO-frstly, by riding him such a cracker
from start TO finish, and, secondly, by over
confidence, In looking round instead OF rid
ing for dear life until he reached the wire
That old veteran of the sulky, John VIII
liams, perhaps the Oldest in America, and
who is one Of the soundest judges of any
kind OF a horse on the continent was seen
at the Oakland racetrack yesterday on the
subject and spoke as follows:
I'm my long experience IN racing horses,
have always found 1t best TO let horse 90
we'll within himself. just as Garrison did
Win Montana yesterday but 10 set SQcD q
clip as Lamley did On Major Domo is in 90
cases out Of 100 fatal. More especially Is
this so in The case of n speedy horse such as
the Major is; that pace will stop such one
sure. II is a pretty easy thing TO catch a
horse that is firing to nothing, as Major
Domo was at the last eighth pole. The boy
is good one, but If he rode according to
instructions, which l think he did, then
those instructions were bad as bad could be"
By the by, John is training p head Of
Dan McCarty's trotters at the Oakland
track, aud all are looking and moving well.
Most OF them are Dexter Princes progeny,
but among the ranks are the bay mare Flora
N (2:2l$D and Ella NJ q :23}4), both by Rich
ards ElectoT, 2l70. Both look like getting
fast nOtches this fall by the way In which
they 20 in their work.
BOOKS on THE SAME MEETINGS.
The statements that Kingsley & White
head did not make books on the same race
meetings in the Oakland rooms until yes
terday's suburban is incorrect. They have
done so on all the big meetings near New
York ever since The beginning Of the season.
The great American Derby VIII be run
for ut the opening day Of the Washington
Park races, next Saturday. The foIlOwin.
is the list Of eutTles with the latest Eastern
betting thereon:
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