The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25
Backed at Long Odds Fleur de
Lis Took the Racing
Stake Cleverly.
MAGNET STRUCK A SOFT SPOT,
Eddie Jones Got Lobengula Home a
Handy Winner-Babe Murphy
Again in Front.

There seems to be no end of fast two
year-olds the present season in California.
Yesterday another very promising miss
bobbed 10 the surface in Fleur de Lis. who
captured the racing stake for fillies in i'm
pressive fashion, tripping the four furlongs
in 491I seconds. The event was worth
500 to the winner, and eleven highly tried
fillies sported the colors. When the
betting finally settled the Burns & Water
house pair, Rowena B and Alma. and the
Pueblo stables entries, Dolore and Dura,
coupled in the betting, were each held at
to D. Against Fleur de Lis Is to was
first quoted, but reports of fast private
trials were whispered about and the
bookles We're gradually obliged to rub
until to l was the best posted. Love-
light, the Del Monte stables entry. and
Whirlwind were also backed down several
points. There was but slight delay at the
post, the gate sending them away nicely
aligned. Rowena B and the 500 to l shot.
Jerllderio. made the running to the bend
for home. with Fleur de Lis showing in
third position full of run. Chorn, on the
latter, was not long in taking the lead.
and, although inclined somewhat to
swerye, the daughter of Maxim finished
well III hand, a length before Dura, who
nipped the place from Rowena B the last
few jumps.
The sport throughout was excellent, the
card being the best offered racegoers for
some days. 1t was a disastrous day for
favorites, the odds on Magnet, who cake
walked" in for the handicap, and the luke
warm choice Showdown being the only
successful ones.
Probably the most startling surprise OF
the day was the win of Ruinart in the
opening event, cheap six-furlong selling
dash, with anywhere from so to so to OBJ
tainable about him. On Monday the sta
BILE played the big colt for .skilling," but
let him run loose yesterday. Piggott had
the leg up and, showing in the lead almost
from the start, won driving, a head in
front of Pollock. The IL to 5 fayorlte.
Jack Atkins, finished in the show.
Races run over the inside course are
notorious for dumps, and the mile run
that followed the long priced outsiders
black horse Dungarven carried the bulk of
the coin bet, going to the post 2 to 1 fa-
vorite and he failed to even ''look in
One of the second choices, Sea Spray, had
the call until the wire was nearly reached,
when Shaw on the II to l shot Tar and
Tartar, who had been running in second
position, went to work on his mount and
by clever riding landed him winner by
head. The well-backed May Day was
good third.
A mile purse race with five starters
that was fourth on the programme was a
splendid speculating affair Bettors
seemed divided between Yankee Doodle
and Lobengula, though at the close the
former held sway at to 2. The third
choice, Sir Vassar, played quite promi-
nent part in the running. Garner took
him to the front and he led until within a
sixteenth from the wire, where Jones ON
Lobengula sent his mount along and won
cleverly by head in 1:41N. The favorite
was Tapped on Sir Vassar.
OF the original numerous entries in the
five and half-furiong handicap the pres
ence OF Magnet, with 118 pounds up, scared
all but three-Slver State, Red Bird and