The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
Imp. Candid Headed G. B. Morris
Out for the Rich Spreckels
Handicap.
WORTH $4,000 TO THE WINNER
Cabrillo Wins, Starting a Favorite.
Olive Was Too Speedy for a
Crowd of Sprinters.

The black Australian mare Candid fur
nished the racing surprise at lngleside
yesterday. With but two starters In the
rlch $500 Spreckels handicap, over dis
tance of four miles, having as an only
com ',etitor the bay colt G.. B. Morris, a son
of the immortal Longfellow, she won in a
manner that stamped her as racer far
above the common. OF the original
twenty-seven entries to the stake q. b.
Morris, carrying Ed Corrigan's green col
ors, and the Australian matron sporting
the colors of A. B. Spreckels, president of
the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, were all
that remained to contest for the prize. The
race was surprise from the fact that the
most ardent friends of the black mare
thought that she might possibly make a
fair showing for about two miles at the
most and then occupy reserved seat and
see Mr.. Corrigan's horse finish the run
amid the plaudlts of the vast multitude.
However, nothing of the kind happened
The bookmakers laid L to 6 against G. B.
Morris and to against Candid.
From a spectators point of view the
race was very pretty one. The duo
raced Tapped, with Morris making the
running until about three furlongs from
the wire. Piggott, on Candid, here made
his run, and heading Morris in the stretch
had no difficulty in beating him out by
half length in 7:2413.
The Corrigan entry finished much dis
tressed, but Candid was as frisky as kit
ten ct the finish. The time is within
three-quarters of a second of that made by
imp. Star Ruby when he defeated Gilead
on Washington's birthday of the present
year; but considering the track, which is
much slower than the lightning-fast clayey
course at the Bay District, and the strong
wind that was blowing, the winners per-
formance is conceded to be the best ever
made on the Pacific Coast.
Tie long distance event attracted great
crowd OF racegoers and the bookmakers
did land office business. But three of
the seven favorites captured purses, yet
the ring had very rough day of it, nearly
all OF the pencilerS quitting behind on the
days specuIating.
Fourteen two-year-olds sported silk in
the opening four and half furlong scram-
bic. HohenZollern, the Elm wood stock
farms representative, ruled to l choice,
and ridden out he beat Rachael, the Corri.
gan entry, length. Widow Jones was
close third.
The mile and a sixteenth handicap
called out but five starters. Cabrillo, who
carried the majority of the coin, bet at
odds of to 5. made nearly all of the
running, and at the end headed st. Lee
out by neck in the fast time of l :4SL.
Nebuchadnezzar was a good third.
From an observers view of it in the bet
ting ring Hello was a moral for the
hurdle race, a food of coin forcing his
odds down from threes to a to favorite.
In the first run for home he was easily
beaten out by the 2 to L second choice,
Montalvo, ridden by George Cochran, who
was given out as dead one." Arundel
was third.
Following the big four-mile race was
six-furlong sprintiug dash, and Yankee
Doodle again disappointed his followers.
Starting an 20 5 favorte he showed