The San Francisco call., 1897-04-21
FAVORITES IN
| WINNING FORM
Four Heavily Backed
Choices Score at
Ingleside.
The Extensively Played Wheel
of Fortune Beaten by
Howard s.
Game Morte Fonse Snatched a Race
From the Coals-TorSida Took
Another Purse.

Just for q change the first choices took
hand at the bat yesterday and home
runs were very much in order. Six
heavily played favorites were sent to the
post, four reaching there in safety and
eventually scoring. To be sure the fur
nisned rooms to let sign was not dis
played on three or four of them at the
plate, but they won by a margin. big
enough to allow of their iubilant hackers
cashing. The attendance was large and
the betting much Iivelier than on the
opening day of the week.
One of the saddest dumps of the day, as
well as one of the most expensive 10
favorite- players, was the downfall of
Wheel of Fortune, the l 10 choice for the
final event ofthe afternoon, a seven-iur-
long purse run. The chestnut mares en-
thusiastic admirers overlooked the fact
that she lately had two very hard races
one in the Burns handicap, the other in
the Palace Hotel stake-and threw their
coin IN as though it were oil out of the
can. The Wheel" was not up to very
much, and although she responded gamely
and honestly 10 Hennessy's call, was
beaten hands down by the brown Whistle
jacket colt, Howard S. which, ridden by
Joe Piggott, finished with a slipped head
stall. The winner opened at to 2, with
worlds OF l6 to obtalnable around Dugle-
call time.
Game old Morte Fonse, starting to
chance for the mile and a quarter tour,
finally managed 10 land the purse after
nearly causing a score of deaths from
heart failure. After being cut off on two
or three occasions and with Howard and
Can't Dance ahead of him furIong from
the wire, Jimmy Bozeman, who had the
mount, saw a small gap between the fence
aZar rd nd oh y
desperate one, but was rewarded with sue
cess, and Morte defeated Can't Dance by
three parts of a length in 2:l215.
The even-money fayorite, Iorsida, for
the opening two-year-o old event at four fur
longs, played in great luck. Little IT i(i
and Miss Dividend made the running, and
fifty yards from the wire the latter FLY
looked to have the race won, when
Ihomp pson, forgetting to hug the rail in
his exultation at having beaten off G,
allowed Willie Martin on the favorite to
slip through and win by scant half
length. Little G tired badly, but finished
a close third.
I'd Corrigan's mare Queen Nubia
looked to royal chance for the next
event, cheap six-furiong Sc ling sprint
but showed 10 very poor advantage, never
being able to get to the front. Bozeman.
astride the 16 to second choice. Santa !
Paula, rushed his mount out in front, /
and. maintaining his lead to the end won |
by a head in the slow time of :I71I Reel ;
which finished third, should have been
closer up with more experienced boy |
than tsvens IN the saddle
The third event, i've and half fur |
long scramble with the scale of weights
raised ten pounds above the scale, was
captured by the Corrgan entry Redding-
ton, ruling 10 l favorite. The rank
outsiuer Myrtle d, with William Pinker-
ton at her heels, led TO the stretch. Here
Reddington ran around the buncn and
taking command won ridden out from the
peculiarly ridden second choice Peixotto.
Encino finished in the show.
Pat Dunno and his friends all placed
their checks down good aud hard on