The San Francisco call., 1899-09-02
TOGGLES WON
THE RICH FREE
F0R-ALL TROT
Iora the Contender
in Both Heats.
COOKIE" KLAMATH KNOCKING
ARTHUR w oUTFooTED A BIG
FIELD OF "WIGGLERS."
Lost Girl Was Barred in the Betting.
Fortes in More Hard Luck.
The Buffoon Scored
Again.

Taken all in all, the racing furnished
at Oakland track yesterday was about
the best of the Golden Gate Agricultural
Societys meeting. As in other classes CT
sport, the top-notchers have the call,
and 1t was undoubtedly the big free-for-
all trot which attracted the crowd. Start
ing in it were Galette Wilkes, formerly
Gaette, 2:12A; Neernut, 2:12A; Toggles,
2:09A Clay S. 2;13A; Claudius, 2:1312 Iora,
2:11 and old Cookie klamath, 2:07A,
the pride and pet of the deceased turf
man, Tom Raymond. 1t looked hard
bunch to draw from, but past deeds and
recollections made klamath a slight ia
vorite over Toggles for the opening heat.
He was the same old Cookie" as of old
when 1t came to the battle through the
home stretch, fighting every inch of the
way, but age has dulled his speed, and
many a hard mile has caused knots to
embellish those iron legs. In the opening
heat he tried his best, but finished third.
Iora, handled by jonathan, set a merry
clip to the stretch, closely attended by
Toggles Driver Clark, behind the lat
ter called on the little bay, and in furt-
Gus drive won by half a length in 2:144.
AT the paddock it looked as if the heat
would go TO klamath, but the veteran S
underpinning grew weary and he left his
feet. AT that he was Tapped on the lead
ers.
he IL come Ddck all rlSnI, IH6 crown
said, and klamath responded to the bell
tap favorite for the second heat. 1t was
a repetition of the first, Toggles, superbly
driven by Clark again leading out lora
by short half-length, the time being ex-
actly the same as for the first heat. kla-
math broke in the stretch, finishing third.
Galette Wilkes stepped two nice heats and
will bear watching further down the line.
But one other faVorite was beaten dur
ing the afternoon Arthur w. captured
the 2:15 pace, his second win during the
meet and in the running end of II Lost
Girl and The Buffoon scored brackets.
Forts, though to 10 chance, was de-
feated hands down by Lothian.
After playing in hard luck the first heat
with the giant Arthur W in the opening
heat of the 2:15 class pacing event, Reins-
man John Quinn came out and took down
the purse in two straight. DictatresS, the
handsome and game daughter of Die
horseman, won the opening heat in PISA
and was the contender in the next two,
but slightly outclassed.
The track was then given up to the
runners, the opening number being a
mile selling run. Lost Girl was barred
in the betting and won at leisure from
Tenrica, the third choice. Yule tired after
covering seven furlongs.
Frank O'Kane's brown gelding Forts
made such phenomenal run on Wednes-
day that the mile and a sixteenth event
was considered gift for him: Starting
an odds on choice he stumbled at the
start and was headed the entire distance
bv Iomond a to l shot eXcellently rid
den by novice Walsh. Grady sulked the
latter part, finishing in the show.
Twinkle Twink was not a star on this
A cheap band of 2-year-olds lined up in
the final fve-furlong scramble. The
Buffoon was installed warm even mon