The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-04
Caldwell Does Splendid
Work With the Gate
at Ingleside,
Jockeys if Properly Disciplined
Will Line Up at the
Barrier.
Trainer Bill hurry Acquired The
, Dipper at a Bargain - Horsemen
With Nuggets From Dawson,

THE CALL in recent Issue took de-
termined stand against the recall flag be-
ing used in connection with the Austria
liam starting device, at present IN use on
both of the big tracks mere. The argu-
ment was advanced that much of the
blame attached to the gate was due TO the
lenlency OF the starters with the Jockeys.
At the commencem ent OF the present
meeting at Ingleside the directors issued
orders 10 Starter Caldwell to discontinue
the use of the red bunting, brought into
requisition as a signal to call the horses
back in what was deeme1 an irregular
breakaway.
He did so with many ominous misgiv-
ings, the wrath Of the public and press
staring him in the face. About the first
move the veteran starter made was to
travel down to the Jockeys room and
read the riot act to a group of that pre-
cocious gentry. The result is that during
the past week better starting has never
bean seen anywhere. The delays have
been scarcely noticeable and the fields
have been dispatched in matChless fash
ion. The Prince IS indeed himself again.
Leora, the "whiS;le-necked' mare from
Montana, IS down in these parts again.
The main drawing attraction about this
races with a tube inserted in her neck,
having during some stage of her career
suffered a serious attack OF the Group,
which necessItated & surgical operation.
Then again, her partisans claim she can
run half mile in half minute or there
abouts; but she cannot carry her high
turn of speed.
An effort was made to bring her and
Tea Rose together in a four-furIong sprint,
but it is hoped the same has been post
poned until "bush" racing opens in the
spring. 1t was generally supposed that
racing organizations these days were
seeking to improve the sport by catering
10 high class horses. Offering purses for
halfbreeds of the freak var ely which
might do better with some circus billed as
the equine Calliope' perhaps, VIII not
enable breeders to get higher prices for
their yearlings.
Bill hurry, the portly Sacramento
trainer, who was East last season with
Purser's horses, has streaks of good as
well as flashes ot pad luck. Bill says the
cheapest acquisition the sta Die made to
its string while sCiourning on the other
side of the Rockies was The Dipper. In
the stable OF Dave Gideon he had Der.
formed with Indifferent success until
day came along when the astute Gideon
arrived at the conclusion that the time
had come to get even.
He bet $40, 600 on the youngster and
thought The jockey shot the race away.
Calling Bill to a secIuo ed corner he told
him if he had a spare halter he could go
down to his stable and place The DIpper's
head III it and lead him away-lead him
anywhere.
=. The man from California did and it is
said always made 1t an object to be near
Gideon when one of his horses Iost with a
bundle of its owners coin aboard
1t Is quite likely there will be racing al
IL In nyIa ~
Woodstock Ontario, a son OF the senior
member of the Eastern racing firm OF
Boyle & Littlefield, visited the track yes
terday, fresh from the COLO fields of the
north, and exhibited to his friends mug
gets nearly as large as a football. He left
mere last spring with the Australian boxer,
Paddy Slavin, and party, and says they
all got in on the ground floor.
Boyle, who IS quite a toxer himself,
met all corners at Dawson. On one
occasion a blacksmith from Seattle. weigh
ing go pounds, accepted his def. hut vas
rocked to sleep in seventeen rounds with
a triphammer right on the Jaw.
Boyle states that be was offered 500, 900
for his claim just before leaving Seattle.
His arrival b as set The horsemen all talk
ing about Klondike ana hunks OF gold.
w. B. Sink has lost his good lwo-year-
old, Sir William. The colt died on Thurs
day night from some lung affection He
was an especially brilliant performer in
the mud.
The first race over the new steeplechase
course Will be run this afternoo The
riders do not view the sharp turns with
much favor and predict numerous spills
and broken limbs. Some Of the tortuous
curves IN the course do look perilous and
it is quite possible their representations
may prove correct
1t really Is pleasure 10 have Jockey
of the Thorpe type here II type that is so
nearly extinct. Thorpe rode here all last
win ter and a solitary instance remains 10
be mentioned where his honesty was ever
questioned
He travels with no cliques. goes on no
debauches, and al all umes is the gentle
man. AS a persevering rider and dashing
fnisher lie has few equals.
The great Reed SAFE of yearlings takes
place at The Occidental Horse Exchatee
on Monday night. 1t Is expected to be
the star sale of the year in this par; of the
country. +. e. MULHoLLAYD