The morning call., 1893-11-20
A Brief Retrospect of the
Weeks Running.
SOME POOR HANDICAPPING.
The Fixed Stake Events Disap-
pointing.
THIS WEEKS PROGRAMME.
A Good One Prepared-Three Stake
Events to Be Run For-Sales
of Thorougbbreds.


meeting of the Pacific Coast Blood-horse
Association presents few special features
worthy of additional mention to what has
already been said about them as they sew
orally happened. The chief one is un-
doubleday the performance of Rev Ell
Santa Anita in so easily disposing of what
was considered an invincible twO-year-old.
The excuses that are being made for the
defeat OF Articus by disparaging COM
parison between the riding ability of his
jockey and Morris are decidedly thin. and
there must have been few persons present
on Saturday possessed of the faculty Of
keen observation for points IN jockeyship
but will allow that an interchange of riders
could have made no possible difference in
the result of the race.
Speaking of jockeys. and the benefits
that would have accrued from change of
pilots, the performance of Sir Reel in the
handicap on Saturday NAV be taken as an
Illustration. If the incompetent Jockey
the stable put up acted according 10 iu-
s,ructlOns by riding the horse as if he
was out for fOuT-mlle race. then he Is OF
TO blame. but the stable was wanting
sadly in judgment in giving such orders
when Sir Reel has always shown his best
tnrm when ridden under conditions exactly
the reverse. Ii Is not admitted for mo-
nent that In that race Sir Reel could have
altered the result, foF Don Fulano has al
ways Teen twenty pounds better animal
from the time that they were saddled,
but Sir Reel certainly Would have
made better showing if ridden
as his late owner, Claude Burlugame.
used TO ride him, as be always managed to
get the most out of the colt. 1t may be
That the stable is saving him to make a
killing when the handicapper tire ats him
fairly. for in that respect he has been
weighted up TO far better form tnan he has
ever actually shown. This brings us to
the matter of the handicapping at the
present meeting. SO far the most valuable
races, With the exception OF the stake
events, have been The handicaps for three
year-Olds and upward, which have proved
dismal failures. The six events of that class
which have been run up to date have only
had an average of five contestants.
a fact which shows very plainly how un-
satisfactory was the allotment of weights
10 owners who had made entries. The
chief interest from the owners point of
view, the publlc'S point of view as well a.
from that of the bookmaker ard the
printer, centers almost wholly in handi-
caps, In which, from the very definition of
the ter :, every horse is supposed TO have
an equal chance, and the spectacle of an
odds on faVorie going 10 the post and
winning In caDter Is proof positive of the
inability of the official who has charge of
the work to DO justice 10 the horses en-
tered.
1t may be that owners object to running
their horses In brulslng race for purses
which are of value 50 little more than
those hung up for so-called short horses
in the sprint races, which at present are
attracting such big and unwieldy fields A
way out of the difficulty, il seems, would
be TO reduce the purses offered for this
poorer class of horse and increase the
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exactly right that a $4,000 horse should
have TO run for the same money as $500
skate That only four or five horses have
any chance in these short races, which
bring out thelarge fields, where class is
just as distinct, is very plainly shown
by the state OF the ODDS on the book
makers lists.
The two stake events-the ladies' and
the Vestal-DrOved failures so far as the
size of the fields was concerned, there
being only three starters in each. There
certainly was an exciting finish iii the
ladies' stakes, where Filtration struggled
home winner by Scant head, position
she owed ID a great measure to her Jockey
but she will have to be almost a fortv-
pound better animal than she was that
day to bold her own with colts OF the class
Of Rey L. Santa Anita.
Realization, VINO has hitherto been
classed as fair average colt, has Ieaped
remarkable Improvement in form, his last
performance being an astonishingly good
one, when he beat Rey FL Santa Anita at
even weight over the California Futurity
course in the record time up 10 that date.
The programme for this week Is an ex-
&c tiOnaily strong one. and contains three
stake events, viz: the Autumn stakes,
distance one uiile, for twn-year-odS, $50
added money. which is to be run t0-mor-
row; the Fame stakes, distance one and
three quarter miles, for three-year-olds,
$3.50 .:uded money. which is set for FIJI
day, and the Weland stakes, a selling
hurdle race, ore aud half miles over six
hurdles, which Will be decided on Thurs
0ay.
Tie sale of thorough bred vearlings from
j. b. Haggins' Rancho Gel Paso took place
at the track Oh Saturday. The pick OF the
lot, bay colt by Three Cheers, dam
Ricardo by Stratford, was secured by
George Rose for $50.
The final sale of the San Simeon Ranch
stock. comprising stations, brood mares
and suck iGgs, takes place to-day at
Messrs KiIIip & Co.'s saleyard at Van
Ness avenue and MARKET street, and there
is sure 10 be big attendance of horsemen
on an off day, aud at a time when some
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