The San Francisco call., 1899-01-01
Two and One-Quarter
Miles in 3:51.
4 GRAND PERFORMING E
CAPTURES THE ATHENIAN CLUB
STAKES.
Ridden to Victory by "skcets" Mar
tin-Favorites in Bad Form at Oak
land-Bernardill Equaled
California Mark.

The long standing record for two and a
quarter miles of 3:56i4, made by those
doughty turf heroes of long ago, Freak
ness and Springbok, when they ran their
memorable dead heat at Saratoga on July
.. 1915, was badly fractured at Oakland
Yesterday 1t remained for Ed Purser' 5
honest old gelding, Buckwa, to accom-
plish the feat. The big son of Buckra
showed a clean set of heels to Daisy +,
Neloz and Wheel of Fortune in the
Athenian Club selling stakes, and set the
mark at SOL Old-timers said it was the
best performance they ever witnessed.
and prophesy that the record will become
moldy and covered with cobwebs ere it
Is gain lowered.
And Pursers horse was not the favored
one in the betting. The smart ones said
Daisy f would do the trick, and the big
Saturday crowd took the 'hunch, send
ing the Riley tilly 10 the post favorite in
the betting. Opening up on even terms,
the odds against Buckwa drifted back
until to / was obtalnable. 'Skeets'
Martins instructions were evidently to so
field to Il standstill. He did il, and in a
commanding fashion. At no stage of the
journey was he pressed, and passed the
wire almost an easy winner, four lengths
ahead of the faVOrite. NeoZ, which ran
an aStonishingly good race and also bet
tered the ola record, was third fifteen
lengths in advance of weary Wheel of
Fortune.
When the time was announced the win
ner and his rider were rendered an oVa-
ton. The fractional time was as follows;
one mile, 1:4lS4 one and a half miles,
2:S212; one and thrte-quarter miles, 2:5S24 :;
two miles. 3.25; two and a quarter miles,
3:5l.
1t was a great days racing throughout
In the third event the hooded Bernardillo
equaled the California record of :46L for
one mile and sixteenth, and in the spin
over the Futurity course Mary Black
shoot at. The faVorites Jared badly
JinkS and Shasta Water turning up as
the only winning ones However. most of
the horses that did lead their fields out
were backed. and the bookmakers laid
away little coin.
Shasta Water, to chance. with
IhOrpe up, easily annexed the first event
decided, at seven furlOngs. Taking the
4ead IN the stretch, she passed the judges
three lengths before kamsin.
The ring took no liberties with Pat
dunno S fast tilly, Jinks, holding her Il
1 10 . taVOrfte for the six furlong run
that followed. Away third. she soon
showed in front but at the end. owing to
II, Ine nash or ,gayety displayed by Nc
Nichols, only beat DIR. Sheppard a short
head. Rainier, groteSquely piloted by
d. Mccarthy. was third
1t was not CromwelHS day even though
me chestnut horse did make a determined
bld Tor the mile and q sixteenth selling
affair. Ruling an even money favorite. he
was dOWned handily al the finish bv Rer-
nardillo, ridden by Charley Thorpe. The
winner was at one stage of the betting
quoted at to l. The three-vpar-old
Hardly finished close third.
An exceedingly fast cluster of sprinters
was gathered in the sprint over
the, Futurity course. fifth on the menu
Rublcon, with Martin up, was made ia