The San Francisco call., 1897-02-05
PICKING WINNERS
AN UNCERT TA|NTY
Mud Seriously Interferes
With Four Calcu-
lationS.
Loulou R and Summertime the
Only Winning Choices at
Ingleside.
Har old Lindsay Was a Surprise-Judg
Denny Let the Talent Down
With Thud.

There was no growing at languid rides,
no complaints of jockeys pulling horses
and no grum bling at bad starts at 1ngle-
side yesterday, The sport was indeed
lottery in every sense of the word. Tho
money was laid down on the chances of
this or that horse in the ring, the starters
wended their way to the post, the sound
of pattering hoofs splashing through the
slushy going was discernible through the
heavy fog and drizzling rain and then
the crowd awaited results. Not until
nearly opposite the saddling paddock was
it possible to tell which horse wos leading,
Two winning first choices out OF six gives
an impression of the uncertainty of rae
ing in mud and rain.
With all of these unavoidable draw
backs, the attendance was good and the
tWenty-one penciIers that weighed in
found no scarcity of coin in the market.
Tom Griffin popped another one of his
curious bOnbons IN the opening six and
half furloug sprint, dropping Harold
Lindsay down at odds of 6 and Z. Jack
o. Lantern was played from to down to
even-money favoritism, and after getting
away from the post under full sail de-
lighted his adherents by finishing fifth.
Harold Lindsay came out OF the togbank
first and downed Tulare, 20 TO l shot,
two lengths with ease. In drive Jazebel
got the show from Cogent by short mead.
The fve-furlong scram bic, with field
of ten starters, that followed, was a gift
for the 2 to l Iavorite, Loulou r. which,
piloted by Sam Doggett, won as she
liked from Mercutio, a AZ to 1 shot. Sugar
foot was close third.
McNaughton and Muir thought their
black colt Judge Denny moral for the
third event at seven furlongs, and advised
all OF their friends to get aboard. Seven
TO five was always obtainable about The
judge, and although the going was just to
MS liking ne prove1 unequal TO the occa-
sion. Mobalaska, the second choice,
ridden by Sloan. won in canter from the
100 10 shot Boreas, which beat the first
choice a length.
The wise ones were again sadly at sea
over the result of the next race, six
furlong sprint, with field of but five
going over TO the barrier. Pat Dunnes
Salvable carried all OF the pig coin at odds
OF TO and even money, and his backers
nad The infinite pleasure OF seeing Lucky
Dog win from the favorite hands down.
The Dog" opened at odds of 2% to l, and
was at one time obtainabie. Fly made
the running the first part OF it, but died
away to nothing.
Three heads on the wire marked the
finish of the fifth race over seven turlongs.
MorIe Fonse, Frank K and Babe Murphy
locked horns the last furlong and crossed
the line in that order. The winner, 10
l chance in the betting, was piloted by
the crack Western jockey, Charley Thorpe.
The last event on the card was a mile
run, and Summertime, with but 104
pounds up, looked a legitimate 1 10 8
chance. However, she opened at to in
the ring. and al call even money was laid
against her. She won in a common gal
lop, with the second choice, George
Palmer, finishing in the place.