The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10


Madison's ride on Gold Bug yesterdaywas in
marked contrast to the one he put up a few
days back. On that particular occasion he let
his horse fall out of the race entirely. Yester.
day he had no difficulty getting him going the
first part Of 1t.
six-furlong weight for age race will be one
Of the features for Saturdays card. The owners
OF Libertine, Crafty and imp. Santa Bella have
announced their intention of starting the
horses named, and the race is still open for
any OF the other crack sprinters on the track.
Had Johnny Payne got away from the post
better and Donahue not managed to get cut off
around the far turn he would have made it
decidedly interesting for the favorite, Model.
The brown horse is in fine fix now and should
be able to do some great mud-kcking this
coming winter for he revels in slushy going
Some of the bookmakers laid 1000 to 1
against Eviola, who started in the two-year-old
race and not few nibbled at the bait The
money would have been better invested had it
been contributed to fund for the transporta-
tion TO New Caledonia of strong Jockeys
for he ran like bronco on the plains of the
wild and woolly West.
Jockey Claude Burlingame's Hawaiian racer
Autonomy was backed down from 80 to to
to win the third race, but after looking very
dangerous until a furlong from the wire tired
badly, finishing in third place. W. OBJ. Mac
donough, who was good winner over the vic
tory of his filly, imp. Miss Brummel, backed
the gray horse around the ring.
1t is a strange fact, but nevertheless true,
that one or two bookmakers and certain we'll
known son OF the Flowery Kingdom who fol-
lows the races. always seem to be able to figure
out whether the "St. Louis Garrison"
Hinrichs, will land in second place when he is
aStridp a horse at
position, whether some other dangerous
horse in the race will beat him out and he will
be third. Yesterday he rode Charlie Boots,
and few of these well-advised people backed
Sam Leake for the place, and su re enough he
came along and beat Boots out the last fifty
yards. This is not the only occasion the astute
celestial and his followers have been correct
in some close figuring that must have caused
the use of nearly full can of the famous
midnight oil' known to the turf, for on
former occasion Gold Bug finished in second
position, ridden by Hinrichs, and this for
| tunate foreigner cashed tickets on the horse
that beat him out a head. Still there are
many followers of the turf that claim there is
nothing in fgures-possibly it depends on the
rize OF figures
! With few more such contests as the
last race on the card yesterday the ceme-
| tereal-like veil that mas enshrouded the
Bay District Track for some time might
be lifted and new interest awakened in
horse-racing. People lave become tired
of seeing lot of "dickey-legged dogs"
chase one another around the elliptic for
| insignificant purses, and little is the Won
der that pu uplic interest in the game has
been at a low ebb for some time coupled
with Sandowic feats of many of the jock
eys, that have been passed over with slight
probing. The race in question yesterday
was mile handicap, having for starters
McLight with 106 pounds up, Claudius
107, Del Norte 105 and Nephew 100. There
was whole lot of money wagered on the
result, McLight having the pull at post
time with to against his chance. The
distance was considered too short for Clau-
| dius and he drifted back in the betting
from II to to 81 to l.
Del Norte and Nephew both went into
the starters hands with threes about them.
McLight won simply through Donahue's 8
razzle dazzle ride on Claudius, who waited
till the clouds rolled by and was beaten a
head on the best horse When Ferguson
sent the field away, McLight next the rail,
was not moving as fast as the others, but
Macklin took a chance at the turn, and
opened up big gap, leading Del Norte
into the stretch by four lengths. At this
point Donahue was shooting craps" on
The back of Claudius away in the rear.
McLight and Del Norte both swerved in
the stretch, but through Macklin's des-
perate riding McLight lasted long enough
to beat Claudius, who tripped along on the
inside full of run, neck, with Del Norte
in third place, head further away.
| Nephew who was interfered with some
what in the run home, was Tapped on the
third horse. The announced time was
/ :40A. 1t was by far the prettiest con-
test run over the course in many moon
and aroused genuine enthusiasm among
the spectators.
The attendance was only fair and the
betting, barring the last, went light.
Three of the first choices flashed past the
wire in front, the other two events going
to long shot and second choice.
Gold Bug was backed down from to
to to to WIN the opening race at five
and a half furlongs with light welter-
weights up, but the second choice, imp.
Miss Brummel, led all the way and beat
the favorite out handily by two lengths.
The two-year-old race over the same dis
tance as the opening run was taken by the
Z to 20 favorite, Crafty, although Lloyd
took matters a bit easy in the stretch and
only beat Sam Leake a neck on the wire.
Charley Boots was short length away in
the third place.
The talent received hard knock on the
| result OF the tDlrQ race. Inc Little fIuSn
colt, to choice, was backed as though
the race was over, but Chevalier, who had
the mount on him, got badly tangled up
at the post when the flag fell, and he
finished second to Sooladain, a Is to 1
chance, who was well backed in 6 ''dog''
race last week and finished absolutely last.
Model, the to favorite for the fourth
race, over the derby" course, five and a
half furlongs. annexed the long end of the
purse to her credit, although Johnny
Payne made her run some the last furlong,
and was beaten but three parts of length.
| SUMMARY.
Sixteenth day, Wednesday, October 8.
| Weather fine track fast.
77 FIRST RACE = Five and q half furlongs
| 4. selling, light welter-weights; purse $500
| Time, :0S.
Ind. Horse. weight, jockey. ST. 1s Str. Fin
(58) Imp. Miss Brummel, 108
SO Cold Bug, i2s lMadisonl...4 2s n IN
6s Hanford, la (Chevaller)...3 80 80 So
t46) Joe Cotton, 129 81: Weber)2 Az 413 4f0
5S Crawford, 129 CIV. Flynn)..5 3
Good start. Won easily. Winner, w. OBJ. Mac
donough's imp. ch. f., by Beau Brummel-imp
Mirage. At post twelve minutes.
Betting: Imp. Miss Brummel Is to 5, Gold Bus
| 4 3. Hanford rs. Joe Cotton 9, Crawford IL