The San Francisco call., 1899-03-11
RUBICON WAS
"SHOOED" IN FOR
The HANDICAP
Rankest FiascO of the
Season.
THE STAND PASSED 1T OVER
JINKs SHOWED OLD TIME
FORM.
Caldwell Fancied Carter Harrison
Andrisa Likely Two-Year-old.
Thorpe in Bad Form-Some
Favorites Won.

The last race on the card at Ingleside
yesterday, the seven furlong handicap.
was the most palpable exhibition of
"shoo-in' seen at the Corrigan track
this season. Rubicon, whose destinies are
looked after by Danny Lynch. of Shar-
key-Fitzsimmons fame, was the medium
OF the coup. The chestnut horse, with ia
pounds on his back, was backed down
from s to TO ( TO 3, the books being
besleged with coin. Meanwhile the odds
against all of the other starters receded
IN the betting. Caldwell kindly gave the
big chestnut horse an excellent send
off at the post. With the others whistlng
down brakes Rubicon won by himself.
o 'Connel taking the place from Good
Hope. It was the most disgraceful farce
seen on a track for many moons. A blind
man, with q Jute sack pulled down over
his head, could scarcely have failed to see
q glimmering of something doing" On
the back stretch Hal Brown was pulling
Good Hope up in plain view of all, when
the hlly could easily have taken the
lead, with her light impost Of 81 pounds.
Possibly II was hazy and the judges
9,1, 9l3 not perceiFe p ihl5 Piefe fqt %0Tk- {r,4
or attempted il. but yesterday he was
rated. AT the end the Sprinter was fun
of run. OIinthus was left, and Sam Nc
heeVer ran as II Z racetrack was foreign
The whole affair was the joke of
cilc Coast Jockey Club, realizing that 1t
is on its last legs, intends TO sane
tion safe-eracking and all other forms or
robbery, ii should so inform the public
Races could then be doped accordingly.
The sport, If such It could be termed,
favored OF the unsaVOry from the begin
ming. Four taVOrItes were successful, but
that IS no indication OF honesty. There
is one rider on whom the California rae
ing public will bank Joe PiggOtt. He
did not suit the highly favored tastes Of
Starter Caldwell and the Ingleside outht
and was suspended for getting left at the
post.
Corrigan's gelding, Carter H. Harrison
Jr., was a prOhIbltlVe 1aVOrlJe Tor the
opening scramble for maidens, with big
Held of fourteen starters. To make the
purse doubly sure Caldwell sent him away
wraps. Festoso, a 70 TO l shot, secured
the place from Racebud.
y strong tip was out on ". B. Jennings
fllv Andrisa to win the tWo-year-Old
scramble, and she performed the feat very
impresSiVely. Backed down to even mon
ey faYOritism, Spencer, on the daughter
of St Andrew, came with rush the laSt
part, beating IanODe out over a leilS IN
Bamboulia. a % 10 l shot, showed plenty
Of speed, taking the show, -,
The hurdle handicap fell 70 our Gil
mate. carrying top weight Honig horse
receded in the betting, ana then won
easily from Tom Smith. he 1aVorIte,
Three Forks, dumped his rider on the
Thorpe's handling of Vincitor, the l to
choice, for the mile selling run, 1ourth
on the programme, would betoken tI5e
''oId man TO be in his dOtage. On pounds
the best horse, he reached the wire IN
nicely timed finish, a head behind Mct ar
lane the heavily played second choice
PAT DUNES filly JinkS made runaway
race of the fifth event al six turlOngS.
Ruling equal choice in the ring with Fat
Morrissey, she won by half a dozen
by Thorpe, managed TO take the place
from Rio Chico.