The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07
Captures the 2:4o Trot in Straight
Heats Without Being
Extended.
PRINCE BISMARCK IN FRONT.
Promise Ne, Good Thing in the
Pace, Beaten by the German.
Named Horse.


sleep of one year the Napa County Agri-
cultural Society again threw open the
gates of its pretty park to circuit travellers
and the inha bitants of the valley to what
promises to be it's greatest race m eet.
Over 250 horses are at the track, with
stable accommodations for but 200.
Visitors are arriving on every incoming
train and boat, and the hotel proprietors
and boarding-house keepers are in high
glee at the prospect of the rich harvest
On this, the opening day, the gate was
free to the public with a small admission
fee charge for seats in the grandstand.
When the old gentleman familiarIy
spoken of as Sol, who has the con tract for
supplying this earth with heat, poured
his scorching rays down on the lovely
valley this morning he evidently intende
overcoats and ulsters to be a superauity
for the day bid fair to be scorcher.
But as racing time at the track drew
nigh cooling breeze that famed the faces
OF the pretty women and their escorts in
the grand stand made perfect weather for
light harness sport. Handsome turnouts
crowded with the elite OF Napa, lined up
in the in-feId, and the rural visitor with
his blackboard was quite as we'll repre-
sented.
In the judges stand were F. W.. Loeber,
Z. II. Wlnship and C. L. La Rue, and
their rulings, which were just and impair
tlal, gave satisfaction 10 all. Starting
Judge McNair was on hand with his flag,
and his work which was a revelation TO
local race-goers, is the talk of Napa. D.
McVicker and Pete Brandow did the
clerking.
While the sport was excellent, it had q
tendency to drag and become tiresome,
and less bickerng and more punctuality
would tend TO hold the crowd until the
final heat was decided. Two events-the
2:40 trot and the 2:25 pace-formed the
card. Nothing of a sensational character
marked either race.
The trot was called first. but proved a
very slow betting affair, from the fact that
The talent considered it "moral" for
Jeffe. Pool-seller Leach found it difficult
to get Sc for the field, So Tor Clay S and So
for Hunyadi against the $40 bid for the
favorite. He won in straight heats with
out effort In 2:203l, 2:2o and 2:1s%.
He trotted the second quarter in the
second heat st a 2:10 clip, and is conf
deEtly expected to lower the colors of The
Fresno horse, Homeward, when they meet
on Friday. Alias gained second money
and Faro Bank third.
The 2:25 pace was q much better specu-
lating affair. The closing pools before the
first heat was trotted sod: Field $40,
Promise Me So and Prince Bismarck S5.
Promise Me was the hot tip for the heat,
and the wise ones backed him off the
board of the solitary layer of Odds. In a
close finish Lafferty managed TO land the
heat with the good thing by neck from
Sam H in 2:l6H.
The latter, on his good showing the last
100 yards, was now in great demand,
bringing $40 against $6 for the field, with
few buyers of the latter end.
The favorite and Prince Bismarck, the
German-named horse hauling a green
on the bend for the wire and fought the
heat out, Sam winning quite easily in
2:1S
1t looked all over now and Sam H sold
for $40, with the balance going for So or S4.
1t was not Sans day to shine, though,
for the German horse hauling the green
sulky, driven by a driver wearing an
emerald-colored coat and carving a chain
instead of whip took the heat by two
lengths in 2:2lX, after leading from the
word 60.
The Prince now had the call, and he
took the fourth heat in 2:19H, with Sam
II again second. The concluding heat of
the race, the fifth. was the most exciting
OF the afternoon. In great drive from
the head of the home stretch, Mcdonald
got Prince Bismarck home head before
Sam in 2:20.
Trotting, 2:40 class; 8 in s.: purse S7OO.
Jefe, br. g., by Arlington Collette (Laf-
ferty). ............ ............ .......... l
Alas 3. T., oy Wolsey- = Gains ........ 3
(Holmes) ...................... 8 2 6
Niece, b. M, by Penglass (Holbrook) 49,. 2
MHlie ; b. M. by Yosemite (Smi:h) z
Clay :, b. s., by Grover Clay (Gsnnon).... 5 s
Addison b; s.. by James Mason (Nelson)..
Johanne Treat, b. M, by Tommy Rys-
dyck lHodges). ............................. 7S
.goboom).. ............... IL
Hunyadi, b. c., by Hugo (Sullivanl-........ IL d
SOLO. D. m by Woosey (Sanders) :::..... 10 10
Teheran, b. s., by Mambrno Wilkes
Time, 2:20M-2:20-2:lS.
Pacing. 2:25 class; three in five purse 500.
Prince Bismark, b. c., by Almont Patchen
(McDonAld) Observation-Disclosures. z /
Sam H. b. g., by Lucherve (Whtney).... 2 2 2
Senator, blk. g., by Secretary (Misner)... 33 8