The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
INGLESIDE'S LAST DAY.
The Great Long-DIstance Handi-
cap viii Mark the End Of the
Racing Season

Racing Season.
The Pacific Coast Jockey Club is as
suredly worthy of compliment for the
grand programme prepared to mark the
closing down of the racing season at lngle-
side track this afternoon. The long meet
ing that has been such flattering as well
as highly financial success for the new
racing organization will be ushered out
with card that may aptly be termedthe
"sport of kings" Three handicaps will
call out the better class of stake horses,
while four other well-filled events give the
horses of the selling platter division ample
opportunity to enrich their respective
owners. This will be the best opportunity
afforded spectators of backing their
favorites until the reopening of the fall
racing season on October L, and the at
tendance promises to nearly equal the big
crowd of the opening day.
The fact that it is not "ladies' day." as
customary in the past, will no doubt be
disappointing to many of the fair sex.
Notwithstanding this fact, they will un-
doubtedly be well represented IN the
grand stand.
The big two and quarter mile handi-
cap has excited great interest among
horsemen, and many wagers have already
been made that the world record for the
distance will be shattered. Both Thorn.
hill and Rey del Bandidos are under the
one trainers charge, but it is to be hoped
that both will be sent out for the $500
stake. The association adds an additional
5000 if the re cord is lowered.
ID. Martin piioted four winners yester-
day, and should have been closer up with
Warrago in the opening mile dash.
Pecksniff looked like ''ready money"
until well into the stretch, when he
backed up and finished fourth.
Al StemIer looked like a defeated can
didate for Congress after the two-year-old
run. El Prlmero stables very efficient
trainer is said TO have placed $1,000 on the
chances of Greyhurst, only to have him
left at the post. No blame could possibly
attach to Starter Havey, however, for the
grey youngster, standing perfectly straight
before the start, wheeled and jumped
back as the barrier was raised. He always
was inclined to be trife rank.
Hanger" Jones and his Sacramento
friends all wore most contented smile
after the victory of George Rose in the
fourth race. This is the second win within
two weeks of the Three Cheers gelding,
well backed on both occasions.
Jerome S came out of his race trife
lame, which no doubt accounts for him
not being up closer at the finish.
Phil Archibald tried all of the crack
jockeys on the black horse Charles A with
i'll success. Yesterday he gave little Beau
champ the mount and the black horse at
odds of 20 to l finished a good second to
Montgomery. Had the distance been a
tritie further the result might have been
reversed
Jockey Cairns is trying for reinstate-
ment. The clever steeplechase rider was
suspended some months b ack by Judge
Joe Murphy for an alleged poor ride on
Tom Clarke, one of the most uncertain
jumpers on the coast. One breezy day at
the Bay District track the St. Louis clique
played Montalvo for "killing" and
Cairns on Gold Dust, an outsider, went out
IN front and won all the way, with the
good thing" Montalvo second.
All of the other starters in the race were
dead" including Judge Murphy's own
horse, Colonel Weightman, and he, at
that time officiating in the stand with
Joseph J. Burke, in the absence Of G. +.
TreVathan, failed TO notice the raw ride
put up by T. Murphy on the Colonel. Ever
after this incident Cairns stood in bad
repute with the St. Louis crowd, and when
he appeared at the new track was promptly
shelved, through the Vaccinations. it is
claimed, of Andy Blakeley. Joe Murphy
came to California amid a blowing of
trumpets, but created q frost that still pre-
vades the air of the local tracks.
If he had watched the curves and in
shoots that the ST. Louis crowd and Jerry
Chorn put over the plate half as closely as
he noticed any little move OF California
horsemen and jockeys, be would have
made himself much more popular. His
noted creation of the now celebrated
"silken cord" theory in connection with
the rank pulling of Lizzie H by Jockey
Garner, even now causes a litter among
those familiar with the way the coin was
bet that day. Cairns has always borne
good reputation, far better than the aver
age steeplechaser, and on this, the closing
day, the Ingleside judge could do no more
meritorious act than sign the boys rein
statement.