The San Francisco call., 1896-06-04
Leopold de Rothschild's Colt
Beaten in Driving
Finish.
HELEN NICHOLS GREAT RACE.
The EPSON Town Plate Won by the
American Sprinter-Royalty
in Attendance.


abled and his chances of overcoming the
mighty speed of Leopold de Rothschild' s
St Frusquin were practically destroyed.
ST. Frusquin, though beaten for the first
place, gave good account of himself and
finished second. Following is the sum-
mary:
The derby stakes of 5000 sovereigns. BY sub
scriptions OF so sovereigns each, half forfeit of
sovereigns only if declared by the first Tues
day in January, 1895, for three year-old colts,
nine stone, and fllies eight stone nine pounds.
The nominator of the winner to receive 500
sovereigns, the owner of the second 300 SOW
ereigns and the owner of the third 200 SOW
ereigns out of the stakes; about one and half
miles (2S0 subscribers, six ty-eight of whom de-
clared forfeit). His Royal Highness the Prince
OF Wales bay colt Persimmon (by st. Simon
out OF Perdita H won, Leopold de Rothschild's
brown colt st. Frusquin (by st. Simon out OF
IsabeD second, H. E. Beddington's brown colt
Earwig tby Hampton out of Wriggle) third.
Time, 2;42. The other starters were w. G.
Stevens Teuful, Leopold de Rothschild's
Gulistan, j. H. Platt's Bradwardine, P. A
Harrison's Knight of the Thistle, T. Phillips
Bay Ronald, Mrs. John Wallace's Spook, E.
CasselPs Toussaint L. Bassey's Tamsrind
The horses got good start. Tamarind
after the first hundred yards, Bay Ronald
drew to the front, followed by Brad
wardine and Tamarind. After these came
,Earwig, Spook, Gulistan, Teufel, Tous-
saint and Knight of the Thistle, with St.
Frusquin and Persimmon as the whip
pers-ln.
Shortly afterward Gulistan went to the
front and held the lead past the mile post.
followed by Bay Ronald, Spook and St.
Frusquin.
Then came Bradwardine, Teufel and
Knight of the Thistle in front of Earwig
and Persimmon, with Tamarind failing
off. Gulistan seemed to be in trouble upon
arriving at the top of the hill, and fell
back. Bradwardine then went to the front
with st. Frusquin next.
Entering the straight Bradwardine
yielded to Bay Ronald and st. Frusquin.
quarter Of a mile from the finish Bay
Ronald was done and st. Frusquin took
the lead, followed by Persimmon.
Opposite Tattersalls Persimmon got on
even terms with St. Frusquin, and there
was a most exciting finish, resulting in
Persimmon winning by neck. st. Frus-
quin beat Earwig by four lengths. Teufel
was fourth and Ray Ronald fifth. Brad
wardine and Spook followed home in the
order named and Tamarind was last.
The betting at the start was to 1
against Persimmon, 13 to on st. Frus-
quin, 80 to 1 against Earwig, IL to 1 against
Teufel, 25 to 1 each against Bay Ronald
and Knight of the Thistle, SO to 1 against
Gulistan, 40 to 1 against Brad wardine, 100
to against Spook and Toussaint and 1000
to 1 against Tamarind.
The Epson town plate (handicap) of
1o3 sovereigns, for three-y ear-olds and up
wards, five furlongs, was won by E.
Wishards Helen Nichols, Royal Flush
second and Marble third. Among the
Americans present was Henry Rose of San
Francisco. The Americans were enthu-
astic when Helen Nichols won. Eight
horses ran and the betting was 101 to s
against Helen Nichols. Helen Nichols
made the whole of the running and won
by half lenght. A head separated the
second and third horses.
The weather was pleasant Light show
ers occurred during the night, which had
the effect of laying the dust on the high
ways, but the rainfall was not sufficiently
heavy to soften the racecourse. The earlv
morning arrivals by road and rail were far
in excess of the usual number, and the
crowd in attendance at the start of the
great race was even larger than last year,
which was greater than any seen on Ep-
som Downs since 1885,
There was steady exodus of racegoers
from London throughout the forenoon.
Hundreds of four-horse coaches started
from the various West End Hotels. carry-
ing among their passengers a large num-
ber of Americans, and the roads were alive
with racegoers in every conceivable kind
of vehicle, from the gorgeous drags of the
swells to the donkey-carts of the coster-
mongers, making their way to EPSON
Downs.
An unusually large number of promi-
nent society ladies were included in the
almost innumerable racing parties, and
their superb toilets contributed to make
the scene one of brightness despite the
slight drizzle of rain.
The royal train, which left the Victoria
station at 12:30 o'clock, was composed of
sixteen cars. In the saloon were the
Prince and Princess of Wales and their
daughters, Princess Victoria and Maud:
Prince Carl of Denmark, Princess Maud's
affianced; the Duke and Duchess of York.
the Duke and Duchess of Fife, the Duke of
Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of
Devonshire. Lord and Lady Cadogan and
Sir Horace Farquhar, M. P.
There was also on board brilliant COM
pany comprising the elite of society, many
of the leaders in British politics and the
cream of the theatrical and artistic world.
Among the Americans who went by
coach TO the Downs were Mr. and Mrs. r.
X. Fox, Mrs M. III. Campbell and daugh-
ter, Mr.. Kaufman of New York and
Messrs. Gladwin, Weeks, Hubbard, Nc
Kinley. Rose, Shaw, Haines, Hearn and
Cowles,
When the race was over and the usual
tremendous cheering of the winning horse
had subsided, the crowd turned it's atten-
ton to the Prince of Wales who was
n eerad again and AGAIN As bic po,,o1