The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-30
THE BAY DISTRICT RACES,
Some Lively Bidding Up Re-
lieved the Monotony of
the Days Racing.
BLOOMSBURY A WARM ONE
The Wise Contingent Got Down
Hard on Sligo and Venus.
Both Were Beaten.

J. Hill, one of theecraek jockeys of the West
ern circuit, will pilot GaIen Browns horses at
the sacramento meeting, after which he will
be seen at the Bay District.
When BY Holly saw the crowd gathering
around the judges stand after his mare May
Mccarthy had won the last race, he said: 81
ought TO get big price for her, judging by the
crowd
A string of seven horses belonging to the
well-known Western trainer "Mlke" Donovan
arrived at the track last night, six days from
Chicago. Japan is the only tried performer or
the lot, the others as yet being unnamed.
Mr. Holly openly accused Johnny Coleman
of the Stuyyesant Club OF being at the BACK OF
the boosting" of e. Rayo. Johnny denied
this and offered Holly his half OF the run-up
money as owner OF the second horse, but the
offer was refused.
There are some great looking yearlings at
Flosden ranch, ii is said, by Ell Rayo and the
chances are the son of Grinstead will be back
in his old owners possession before many
moons Mr. Holly never tired OF showing the
handsome chestnut to visitors, and honey out
OF the comb was none TOO good for him.
When B. c. Holly, the sage of Flosden,
entered his pet Ell Rayo in the first race
Yesterday, cheap tive-and-a-half furlong
selling affair, for 500, it never entered his
mind that any one would have the temerity
to bid him up if he won, and that is where
he was fooled. The handsome chestnut
broke down about two years ago and has
been shelved at his owners ranch since
that time. Taken up recently, he STOOD
the ''prep" all right and warmed up so
nicely yesterday that the talent hammered
him down from even money to 1 TO in
short order. He took the lead in the race
almost from the Jump and won in the COM
monest kind of a canter, with Bob Tucker
and Mendocino fighting for the place be-
hind him. When the horse was put up to
be auctioned Ollie Johnson, the owner of
the third horse Mendocino, called out
$500. There was no response from Mr.
Holly and the young trainer secured
the horse. Now BY Holly is accounted
q very shrewd borseman and the end
was not yet. A grand powwow was held
by the head men OF the tribe in front OF the
betting-ring bar, at which Little Man
With-the- Big Nit, Tall Man Afraid of His
Whiskers and Gray Horse With Many
Bad-Legs sympathized with their ag-
grieved tribesman, and drawing their
tomahawks declared for war. When Main
stay, entered for $780, captured the second
race, Holly emerged from his wigwam
plentifully bedaubed with warpaint and
gave him boost of $500, his owner retain
ing him. Imp. Ivy, who took the large
end of the purse in the fourth race, was the
next to suffer at the hands Of the avenger.
The mare was entered to be sold for $500,
which seemed a very fair valuation, but
after a careful scanning the Flosden horse
man gave her a hoist of $500. Mr.. Holly had
enjoyed some fine sport and perhaps had
overlooked the fact that he had horse en-
tered in the last race, also selling event.
May Mccarthy, entered for $500, carried
his aII-green to the front, and when put up
to be sold was bid up $500 over her entered
price by E. H. Roland, the trainer of imp.
Ivy. Holly retained the mare with an
additional $50 bid.
Signal fires were burning on the sur
rounding hills when the last race was
over and the Jockey Club is liable to quit
a big winner before peace is declared, half
of the run-up money going into its Golfers.
The customary two favorites again
squeezed in, the bookmakers having all
the best of the argument, two very heavily
backed ''good things" Venus and Sligo,
going wrong.
That spanking good colt, Bloomsbury,
again showed the way home for Installator
in the third race, at five and a half fur
longs. Reidy on the colt even INDUCED
Installator, who was 1 to chance in the
betting, with the lead for way, when
he passed and beat him out handny by a
length in the fast time OF 1:07A. Sir
Richard was the only other starter. The
winner went to the post to 2.
The wise money was apparently fooled
and placed on Sligo, who was backed
down from ives to 8 to 8 to win the sec
ond race, a six-furlong dash, the prices
against the others all receding in the bet
ting. Mainstay, who opened at 2H to 1
and closed at g. upset all calculations by
going to the front and heading the favorite
all the way, beating him out easily by two
lengths. Ledalia was fair third.
Venus was played for mild killing"
in the fourth race. also a six-furlong run,
her odds gradually being cut from skies to
to 5. Hinrichs, on imp. Ivy, upset this
''good thing" by going to the front from
the t1ag-fall with the Australian mare and
staying there, beating Venus out head
on the wire in 1 :15 fat. Carmel was a
close third. The odds against the other
starters in the race were long, and their
running fully warranted it.
The even-money choice, May Mccarthy,
took the last event on the card, a mile
affair, very handily, after taking the lead
from Silver entering the stretch. Sir
Walter was third, half a length before
Uncle Giles. MULHoLLAND.
SUMMARY.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2e, 1895.
Two hundred and ffty-ffth day, August 20.
Weather fine. Track good.
1OA6 FIRST RACE-Five and half fur
1910. longs; selling; three-year-olds and up
ward; purse $3.50. Time, 1:OSs4.
Ind. Horse, weight Jockey. st. 1s Str Fin.
100, FL Rayo, l01 (Hiprl,cahs) Ia u % 5sl
1885 Mendocino, SO (Chevalier). A Sc 45 319
1882 DR.. Gardner, 81 (E. Jones). i 31a 3ia A.
800 De la Guerra, SO (McIntyre)5 6h 81 81
1885 Druscilla, 81 CWilson} IL 81 8! s1a
1885 Huguenot, 112 fBooton). ...lO ~ ~ 80
1885 Triumph. 1O1 Oh. smith, IS 90 81 90
1875 Imp Lady Splendor, 105
(Shaw) ............;-......''o 412 on Az
Good start. Won easily. Winner, oh. h., by
Betting Fl Rayo to 3. Bob Tucker to !.