The San Francisco call., 1897-01-26
INGLESIDE NOW
HOLDS THE HAND
Three Choices Win Reopen
ing Day at the Local
Track.
Buckwa Took the Mile, Down.
ing Captive and Other
Fast Ones.
Scimitar Was the First Favorite 10
Fall = Tuxedo Gu jumped the
Favorite Gallant

Ingleside track on this side of the bay
reopened yesterday, and there were no
lamentations, no expressions of regret on
the part of the talent. The track across
the bay Is pleasantly situated and equally
as palatial in its appointments as the one
at Ingleside, but OH myl what hard luck
the favorites played in, to use a sporting
phrase. To be sure the first choices do
not all win at the track within a stone s
throw of the Pacific, but as a rule they
fare much better. While not the most
fastidious and fascinating card ever offered
a race-going public, the. attendance at the
local track yesterday was large, and the
eighteen bookmakers laying prices were
kept busy handling the coin offered
The weather was mild and summer-like e
and the mem bers of the cripple division
were frisky as two-year- olds. Three favor
ties won and three were beaten. The
downfall of the beaten favorites was ac-
complished mostly by second or third
choices, and none Of the successful horses
ran loose.
Ed Purser's wise old horse Buckwa cap
tured the classic event of the card, the
mile run, starting 4 to choice. Picking
up Ill pounds and piloted by Henry Mar
tin, he took the lead from Captive before
a quarter of the distance had been trav-
eled, and won without noticeable effort
from Wheel of Fortune. Captive, ridden
by Willie Martin, was the runner up for
some distance, and then fell back, finish
ing fourth, behind Greyhurst. The mile
was covered in 1:42.
Ed Gaines brown gelding Collins
opened the day auspiciously for the favor
ties by starting an even money chance for
he nd vt n
and winning in gallop from The Bach
elor, carrying the Corrigan colors and a 15
to l shot in the ring.
The brown colt Scimitar, with "Skeets"
Martin up, was the favored one in the
betting among the seven starters that lined
up at the barrier in tue seven-furlong
dash that followed. The favorite ran a
vantage gained by Minnie Gee, against
whom to was laid, and was four lengths
behind Hoenig's mare as the stand was
passed. Old Jack Richelieu took show
honors.
The maiden hurdle event over mile and
sixteenth, with four obstacles to clear.
was supposed to be good thing for Gal
liant, which was played from twos down
to to 5.
The old gray horse, imp. Autonomy,
also had host of friends who accepted
to l laid about him. The gray showed in
front as usual, but gave way to Gallant as
the stretch was reached. Things now
looked comparatively easy for the favorlte,
when suddenly Tuxedo got a move on
and, passing the leader, won hands down
in 1861. Autonomy was fair third.
Opening in the betting in the fifth event,
six-furlong spin, at odds of even money,
Mobalaska receded to to 5, and was
downed quite hsndily by Kowalsky, the
second choice, who walked over the line
two lengths before the Corrigan entry
Show honors went to Allahabad, go to 1
outsider.
Pat Dunne's brown sprinter Preston
never will find much easier game than the
company he met in the final six-furlon e,
and going to the post at the prohibitve
odds of to co. disposed of Peixotto at the
end without much difficulty. Sport Nc
Allister, which made the running into the
stretch, was third.