The San Francisco call., 1901-11-23
BEDECK FIRST FOR A HANDICAP
THROUGH O'CONNOR'S LEVERNESS
Three Favotes Finish IN Front at OakandNorord and His
Brother Folford IN Fighting Fnisa-Natve Wins.

II is not often that one of Winnie.
O'Connor's mounts is found kicking
about on the bargain counter with
II the price marked down from original
cost However, th,s was the case IN
the betting on the Plcasanton handicap
yesterday ct Oakland. The track was
muddy, and this fact alone always causes
goOd guessers to be ia much greater de-
mand. There were but five starters. and
four OF these We're all looked TO have a
royal chance. For this reason there
scarcely was an actual favorite, Obia
closing at and Sea Lion Il to ). Rio
shannon caught some cf the target prac-
tee shooters pay at l6 to ), while OCon-
Dor's mount, Bedeck, With los pounds up,
noated back from 10 AZ and some :.
To a pretty piece Of riding can De
ascribed the win OF tie latter horse.
While ]. Woods on Rio Shannon and
1aoar astride Sea Lion We're busy cutting
BURROWS in the tack, O'Connor made lis
move with Bedeck three furlongs from
home, blazing his way through on the
inside. BY this he gained three lengths
and was enabled TO make the other TWO
swing wide into the stretch. About this
tine shannon tagged and Sea Lion was
compelled TO travel On the slant OF tie
hOg-Dack course Consequently, Bedeck
won by more than l.agJh. Obia, which
had more thar her share OF III racing
luck early in The race, closed strong ana
only lost the place % Sea Lion by a
head Ola RubicOn again went 10 Wofk.
and showed a speck OF ms oid-ume speed
for the first quarter.
Three favOriues split up the Doodle with
q ike number Of outsiders, the longest
priced outsider TO put MS name down on
q diploma being Commissioner Forster, a
10 TO ! shot Last time the Commissioner
came to town ne forgot TO bring anything
with him. but yesterday was on parade
with fun dress suit In fact he furnished
& real surprise
owen Nounce. on Ned Dennis, a luke
warm favOrite, took the first sprint
Searchlight and Lou clieYeden raced out
in the lead and when they tired MOunce
passed by with Dennis. winning easily.
Although Billy Moore, faVOrite Tor the
mile selling run, with OfCOnnOr in the
saddle won. he was not entitled to the
purse. Ransom. on Fl Oriente, apparent
ly could not keep his horse from bearing
out at the stretch turn. relinQulShing the
lead to the favorite. From there on it
took all of O'COnnor's skill to land the
first choice in front by a length Bullman,
on kOenig. ran third
N. Daly's youlgSteT, Sir Lewis, had his
odds played down to favoritism in the
specularng on the twO-year-Old dash.
POcketed right after the start and COM
PEELED to tramp the overland route, he I'm
ished fourth Johnny Woods dropped
from the clouds with Commissioner Fors-
ter and earned the verdict in a nose fin
ish with St Sever. the second choice
Two brothers, NOrfOrd and FOrkford,
fought it out for the long end Of the fifth
purse. Just as the banner was released
Bernota- the favorite, wheeled into Edu-
cate and both were practically left. When
ForkfOrd seemed to be winning, Bullman,
on NOrford, got up and, driving hard,
scored by half a. length
Harry Stover had Native ready and the
chestnut horse won the last race in q, hard
drive from TiburOn. The winners odds
were backed from down to 2