The herald., 1897-10-21
ToDAY's PROGRAM

First race, trotting, special, purse
$35O-visalia, Chico, Joe, Iran Alto
Second race, trotting, 2.15 class
purse SsOO-Feko, DR.. Leek, Carlyle
Carne, Antrima.
Third race, running, for maiden
two-year-olds, Ia furlongs, purse
1925, postponed from yesterday-Gra-
cias 40, Papinta 40, Santa Maria
10, Sorcol 40, Etiwanda
10, Charline Lemon 40, Sister
vickie 40, Ell salado 40, Palo Blanco
ITO, Searchlight 113, Amasa 10.
Fourth race, running, selling 5 1-2
furlongs, purse $325-Sea Spray 1O1,
Gold Bug 1O4, Roxie Murphy IS.
Road Warmer los, Masoero 1O5,
Emma D. 1O3, Highland Ball 81,
Polish 1O1, Pescador 100, Jim Boze-
man 1O8, Alvarado 112.
Fifth race, running, Southern CAL
ifornia stake, 1-6 miles, purse s.
Pescador 1OS, vishun 1O8, Lorena II.
III, Argentina II. III, Jetrudes 95,
Little Cripple 1O5, Marcie A. 90,
Grady 115, ostler Joe 100.
Sixth race, running, selling, 7-S of
a mile-Jetrudes "a, Petrarch 80,
Howard 10Y, McFarlane 90, vishun
ia, Marcie A. 81, Capt. Coster 1o2,
1n0 Tsx41o no
Owing to the length of the pro-
gram the races will begin promptly at
/ o'clock this afternoon.
In addition to the races there will
be parade of the exhibition live stock
at IL o'clock this morning.
For the first time since the beginning
of the present race meeting al Agri-
cultural park those who have been back
ing the long shots from day to day had
an opportunity of more than getting
even, for, unlike the former days races,
the victories were not almost exclusively
confined to the favorites. Several horses
on which good long odds had been laid
yesterday, and more than one book was
hit hard. 1t was not exactly a day of
long-shot victories, for the favorites
captured the majority of the events,
counting each heat in the harness races
as an event. but there were several
times when a small amount of money
judicially played would have won more
than enough to satisfy the average race
goer,
AS compared with the previous days
OF the meeting, the card was not up to
the average, the races being only COM
monplace events, nearly all of them for
small purses. The program was not
such a one as was calculated to bring
out a large attendance, and the result
was that the smallest crowd of the meet
Ing witnessed the days sport. Not more
than 1900 persons paid admission and
most Of these were Of the class who go
TO horse race whenever they can and
go not only to see the sport, but to back
their Judgment with cash. The result
was that during all the intervals be-
tween the races the betting ring was
crowded. From the beginning there was
plenty of money in sight, and this would
AAo We SoH uuCu uuI4ilS lHe AFTERNOON mac
It not been for the manner in which the
first race terminated. In this race there
was evry indication of a job, and the
people became, to a certain extent sus-
picious of the events which followed it.
and there was a decided falling off in
the betting. The crowd seemed to argue
that if one race was fixed, and the first
race seemed to be, there was more than
a chance that the others were also not to
be run on their merits, and rather than
be feeced many Of the men who make
1t rule to bet on every heat and race
held their money.
A PUT-UP JOB
When the judges in any event first fine