The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
SAD MOMENTS
FOR THE TALENT
4Iunged on Six Favorites
and but One Was
Successful.
SaIVadO Outfooted Bernardillo
ana Made a New Coast
Record,
1S'soylan an Unexpected Winner at
: Long Odds-st. Cuthbert Took the
- PinkertOn Handicap.

ough money was played in and
Gst tGst on IaYorites at Oakland track yes
>. ioay TO buy every poor person in
So"h -, big fat country-fed turkey.
: L ne hrst choices We're not beaten with
: 3Hy long intervals of time Intervening
= our OF them were ruthlessly slaught-
: :eieo at the very outset of the game.
- rom a gambling standpoint Moylan
D: as the most profitable winner. taking
=. >. tAe last race OF the day at odds of II
to / -7
= Inc track was lightning fast. as the
llne hung out for the mile and a six
.teenth, 1:46A, a new coast record. will
ncate' The betting, too, was fuc-
piIlhg and swift enough to suit the
f3ost eXacting Eastern critic.
ne performance Of the record
breaking Salvador horse Salvado was
surprisingly good one, and his people
evidently knew that he was up to
some big dOings. For, after the gene
FaI talent had unloaded their checks
on me to favorite, Bernardillo. Sal
.Eaoo was pounded down in the betting
:-1toI3l TO TO to 5. "Skeets'' Martin
!: on BernardillO set a terrific clin reel
): ling off the mile in 1:39. Nearly onno-
. ste Ihe paddock Taylor on Salyado
sslook his mount up, and he beat the
baldwin horse handily by a length and
haiI. The pace was altogether too
1ast Ior Osric and Don Clarencio.
Nnlcn pair were several lengths awav
The Pinkerton handicap, at six fur
longs, Tor tWO-year- r-oIdS. furnished a
very pretty contest. SO evenly ad-
JuSted were the weights that when the
odds were posted it was . to l and
Lake your pick against Eddie Jones,
.. CutnDerI or TOrSida. At post tinh
though, Eddie Jones occupied the place
OF honor, While each of the others had
Feceded point or so. When Ferguson
sent them away the favorite. with
Ihorpe up, and TOrsida, ridden by
0keets Martin. shook the others off
ana raced away in front At the pad
dock Jones had enough, and it looked
as though TOrsida would win Inst
mere Willie Martin came with a terrific
rush astride st. Cuthbert. and, over
naunng the Torso mare forty yards
from the wire, led her over the wire by
h9lt a length in the fast time of 1:1315.
The winner is a son of St Carlo and
carried 116 pounds.
A cheap assortment of two-year-olds
started in the opening fve-furIOng
spin, with Queen BlaZeS ruling 2 r,oanII
10 choice Together with Bodacia
she showed plenty of speed the first
part, but both grew tired early and
were unplaCed at the end. Nearing
ne close C4aWSOn came along with the
~ 70 CndHce, 1rdQen, and In a drive
N1OWned Brambella, a 10 to l shot, with
4Gray in the saddle.
1t is in heavy going that B 6, W
shlnes brightest, but the crowd in
sisted on making him a to 3 choice
for the seven-furlong selling run
which followed. 1t ended in a sort of
easy victory for Myth, ridden by Con-
ley. B. HOIy's colt Fortunate made
the running to the last sixteenth
where Myth collared and beat him out
over a length. The first choice was a
good third
Tiger Lily. the favorite. was awav
and above the best of the nine starters
in the fve-furlong scramble, fifth on
the card, or she would never have
scored brackets. Conley got her away
from the post badly, but she walked
by her field in the stretch and won bv
less than length from Morinei.
against which - to l was obtainable
Lady Ashley, the second choice, was
third
The Corrigan entry, Moylan. upset
all calculations in the final mile selling
run Double Quick, the favorite, was
looked upon as good thing by the
majority of bettOrs, but Moylan, with
Willie Martin UP, led him from the
first jump, and in a bitterly fought
finish through the stretch, during
which Martin outgeneraled Clawson,