The San Francisco call., 1897-02-12
FORM REVERSAL
NOT APPRECIATED
Quicksilver Wins and His
Entry Is No Longer
Desired.
Three Out of Six Choices Downed
at the Track Over the
Bay.
Lebengula Beaten Out Nose By The
Bachelor-Babe Murphy Takes
a Mile Dash Easily.

After a variegated and troublous tour
over the Montana and California circuit
last summer and number of en- igmatical
trips around local elliptics, the fast
sprinter Quicksilver and his owner, F.
Galloway, we're brought to grief yester-
day. One of eight starters in the final
race at Oakland. six furlong sprint, he
was but lightly consid cred by the talent
on the strength of his poor showing in a
race on February s. Twenty TO 1 was laid
against the Friar Tuck horse yesterday,
and with Spencer in the saddle he downed
a good field, among the number OF starters
being Bueno, Simmons and Major Cook.
At his former appearances in five and
half spin on the date previously men,
toned he was ridden by the crack jockey,
Sam Doggett, and exhibited about as
much speed as tramp searching for work.
The horse had evidently undergone the
embalming process and Doggett was put
up TO mislead the public. The grave
diggers took the coin on that occasion
and Mr.. Galloway probably congratulated
himself that his Montana vacation had
not been without its profitable results.
Now Owner Galloway and his chestn Ut
hurricane are at liberty to race on any
course but the one at Oakland, for the re-
versal of form was so horrifying and
startling that the judges notified the
horse-owner that in future the entry OF
his horse would be refused. This was
very lenient sentence, for ruling off the
turf for life of horse and owner would
have been much more just rebuke to
owners of this iik.
The balance of the sport was both shall
low and deep at times. When the hot
choice Lobengula was nosed out by The
RaPhal0r n
caught by quite humber of the fair sex
in the stand, the faces of many of the
crowd were scanned with great burrows
and beads of perspiration larger than
English walnuts fell from their foreheads
and dropped with resounding whack on
faYorltes were also laid TO rest. 1t was
not q profitable day for the regulars,
though the trip across the bay and the
chase OF the gulIs for morsels OF bread
were much enjoyed by all.
G. Pacheco's gelding Maseoro now seems
to be considerable of a racehorse. Start
ing at odds of 15 to l in the betting on
the first event decided, a seven-iuriong
rUD, he came strong at the end and won
galloping from The u to 3 favorite Gutta
Percha. Well played at fours Whitestone
was poor third.
Torpedo which now and then runs a
fair race, took the six-turlong dash that
followed very easily from May r. starting
a slight favorite over Philip II. The
black colt Defender was good third.
ridden by H. Wilson.
There was no pronounced favorite for
the third race, also a six-furlong selling
affair, Meadow Lark, Marjorie, Ricardo
and Morven all going to the post with to
l about them in the ring Heading Nor
ven to the stretch, Marjorie led until
within few yards of the wire, when she
was nabbed and beaten out a nose by
Meadow Lark, piloted by "Skeets" Mar
tin. Two Cheers, escaping from a pocket,
finished a close third.
With Rey del Bandidos scratched, the
mile and q quarter run looked a very good