The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
NOTHING But FAVOR|TES,
Six WelI-Backed First Choices
Landed the. Coin
CIeverly.
FLAsHLIGHT WON GALLoP1NG.
William Pinkerton Showed Himself
to Be Very Fair
Youngster.

Picking winners at the track yesterday
required neither adroitness nor brains. All
that was necessary to win was to put your
money down on the favorite and get into
line. Six straight favorites won, and easy
at that, all of them passing the winning
post with something to spare.
Tod Sloan and Bob Isom carried off the
riding honors, each riding two winners.
Bookmaker George Roses horses seem to
be in pretty good shape just at present, for
his colors flashed by the stand IN front on
two occasions yesterday.
The mile handicap was the feature on the
days card. As handicap, however, 1t
proved dismal failure, the two light
weights running over the top of their field.
Flashlight, the Derby candidate, with
aeighty-four pounds up, was a heavily
played to favorite, with B. 1som up.
Whitestone was consistent second choice,
going to the post 13 to 5. The majority OF
the other starters, with the exception OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Midas, looked high
and ssbeefy" and their price in the ring in
dictated that their stable connections were
not enthusiastic over their chances.
The race demonstrated that when good
and fit Flashlight is a rather speedy piece
of horsefesh, for he jumped out in front
and galloped. all the way and won pulling
up by four lengths in l Al. WhlteStone,
second into the stretch, was beaten out for
the place. somewhat handlly by Nebuchad-
neZzar.
The b6okmakers scented trouble from
afar in the first. race, when the Ledette
FLY, two-year old and a to 10 favorlte,
scampered off in front and won easily by
Swo lengths from the Eva 5 II geldlng.
J o was fair third.
With too much money the talentswooped
into the ring humming f'Do, Do, My Null
berry, y and proceeded to pounce on George
Roses horse Mulberry, the L to 2 favorite
for the second event on the card, mile
selling affair. "A few of the more brilliant
minds played Mat Storms Del Norte for
the place, getting 10 to 1 against their
money. Gay prices against the others had
but little charms.
Probably the bookmakers did not enjoy
seeing Mulberry canter in front all the
Way and win easily by two lengths, but
there. was no recourse. Blizzard made
a bid for the money to the head of the
stretch, when he began firing and was
beaten out for the place by Del Norte.
The hard .Napoleonic frown on Phil
Howell's face became even more severe as
he chalked up the price against William
Pinkerton NTH colt race, ana the JOCK on
Nick. Halls face indicated that he was
beginning to. think that perhaps there
were harder games than the Jumpers,
for it looked like another "pipe" for the
brother to Rico. And he won just as easily
as the preceding winners, after. getting no
too much the best of a rather struggling
start. Tennessee Maid, the one picked to
run second landed there, and it was moth
ing. but hard .Iuck for the bOokles. Had
there been. show odds it would have been
still harder on them, for the third choice,
Ouida FLY, finished third.
After this.race Johnny Coleman of the
Stuyvesant Club looked warm, and when
some bettor remarked that one of the dol
lars Johnny handed him back in change
was 'Fp1ony,'' he offered to bet him a
. 100 to 1 it was not. / suppose he thought
.he might Just as well lose it that way as to
be peddling it out the rear end of the box.
The fifth race. a five-furlong spin, was
Just what the. Empress of Norfolk had
been looking for: Starting to chance,
she won under restraint by three lengths
from North, who came like a shot the last
forty yards and beat Ricardo for the sec
ond place.
Before marking up the odds on the last
race, Johnny Humphreys looked as though
if he had an armchair handy he would sit
down and think. Think of the days when
he and Charley Kingsley and Phil .Archi-
beaten-and now how different. 1t was
rough, but he chalked 6 to 5 against Real
ization, for Johnny likes to lay against
favorites. Frank Van Ness and his friends
backed Gold Bug down couple of points,
but he was never in 1t. Brodhead and
Captain Coster led into the stretch, when
the. favorite moved for the lead, and six
tenth from home went to the front and
won easily by length from Quarterstaff,
who made fine run, starting with 30 to
against him.. Captain Coster ended in
third place.
Lightning seldom strikes twice in the
same place, and it would not be surprising
to see the favorites bowled over to-day.
MULHoLLAND.
SUMMARY.