The San Francisco call., 1897-03-25
The Great" Lightweight
Loses on Two Heavily
Played Horses.
He Grew Careless on Installator
and Was Beaten by
Salvation.
Ladies' Day at Ingleside Well At.
tsnded-Fog Spoiled the Racing.
California Won in Fast Time.

The remnants of the Sloan confederacy
suffered few more reverses and were
greatly discounted ere the afternoon
snort was over at Ingleside yesterday.
When Tod Sloan arrived here from the
East, with volumes of fattering press no.
tices in his trunk, in which he was her
aided as the worlds greatest and only
lightweight jockey, he had a large follow.
ing. He has proven an exploded "phe-
nom," which only confirms that Eastern
racing critics are about as good guessers
as Eastern pugilistic writers. He has
failed utterly here this winter to demon
strate that he ranks as high in saddle
,Eork as two or three other riders that
Sailed TO get their pictures in the press on
Shumerous sundry occasions last summer.
Sloan had the mount on Yemen, the
heavily played second choics in the second
event at six furlongs, but was outridden
and outgeneraled by "Skeets" Martin on
California, the favorite. and beaten three
parts OF length in 1:133z. Yemen races
in the name of 'iS. Deimei.' The aged
sprin ter's trainer, Frank Brown, was so
chagrined at his defeat that he bid the
winner, California, up 10 $l7o0, or $1100
over her entered selling price of $500. She
was.retained by her stable.
In the race following this, the mile
handicap with a field of four starting,
Sloan cast race to the wind that right
fully belonged TO the to 5 fayorite, In
stallator.
Tod iollied along in see-saw fashion
with Lobengula down the backstretch,
finally passing that horse when straight
ened for the wire He then took wrap
on the Brutus horse firmly convinced he
had the race up his sleeve. Then so re-
nowned jockey as 81. Brown caught
Sloan in bllssful repose and got Salvation
over the wire three parts OF length in ad-
vance of the first choice. The winner was
second choice i'll the ring and equaled the
track record for the distance-1 :49I.
It was ladies day" and the grand
stand was crowded to its utmost with the
fair sex. a heavy fog rolling in from the
ocean obscured view OF several of the
races, spelling what otherwise would have
been a perfect racing day. Favorites ran
in hard luck, landing but two races.
Fourteen cheap selling -platers faced the
barrier in the opening slx-furlong run.
Treachery was backed down from to 10
5 TO favoritism, and failed to get any
part of the coin. To a good start, Per-
haps sailed away in front and Leading TO
the paddock was only beaten out head
in hard drive by Brametta, a 15 to
shot, ridden by jenkins.
The eight starters in the mile and six
teenth affair were very ordinary crowd,
totally lacking any pretenSions as to class.
The bulk of the coin went in on DOYLE,
sending him to the post an II to 8 choice.
He, with McLight as a close attendant,
made most of the running to the stretch,
where Adolph Spreckels with Piggott up,
gradually forged TO the front, downing
McLight by less than length III the slow
time of 1907. Foremost came fast at the
end, taking third place.
In the hurdle race over one mile and a
quarter, they were sorry set OF crit