The San Francisco call., 1903-09-08
.DIVINA MAKES
A NEW RECORD
High-Class Sport Seen
at the Track in
Sacramento.
Tuna, James Madison's Game
Daughter. Wins Stanford
Stake.
Special Dispatch to The ca,i.

6ACRAAIENTO, Sept. 7.-Despite ccun-
ter attractions. the largest crowd of the
meeting filed the grand stand and betting
ring at Agricultural Park this afternoon
and some higiH-class sport was witnessed
In the Governor Pardee handicap Tat
mile, for which a field OF six was con-
signed to Dick Havey's care. Divina, car
rying Lee Jackson and los pounds, won in
a common canter by ten lengths in 1:SSs4.
a new California record, supplanting the
;SS first, set by Bannockburn which that
horse made at Tanforau and repeated at
Oakland The betting favored Hagerdon
with ll2 pounds UP, the Cameron entry
closing al l5 to TO-
The fayorite. trailed by the light
weighted Chileno. cut out the running for
three-fOurths of mile. which was
stepped in I:1312. with Dfvina in third DO
sition. Headed for the wire. Jackson on
Divina let the mare down and she quick
ly assumed the lead Al the close Jack
son was taking her up. Hagerdon was
second and the three-year-old Horatius.
shouldering 10 pounds. third
Divina started I'm the Grove L. johnson
stake at the track last week and his own
er bet 500 on her, but Jackson failed 10
get the mare away with her field To-
day the stable let the mare run unbacked.
In fact her owner was not present. Other
duties also prevented Governor Pardee
from visiting the park Dlvina is a i've
year-old bay mare by Bassetlaw-An-
gelique and is a product Of Rancho del
Paso.
LUCK FOR BooKMAKERS.
The bookmakers were kept busy and as
there were several good breaks could
likely be credited with having a good
day. Tamm and Maresa were the only
choices in the running events to land.
Tuna, the game daughter of James
Madison, captured the Stanford stake,
thereby repeating her victory in the Oc-
cident stake and duplicating the feat of
the crack colt Aristo last year The
night before Henry Sanders disposed of
the hlly 10 J. de la Montanya at the re-
ported price of s3G00 but drove her in to-
days race as in the Occident stake She
sold an overwhelming favorite and again
Swift 3 was the only other starter capa-
bic Of making her race.
In the first heat she stepped TO town in
2:ls1z, which time has been beaten but
once before in the stake. then by Rio
Alto, whose mark is a quarter Of a sec
ond lower. In the second heat Tuna left
her feet about a furlong from the wire
and II looked as II Swift 3 would surely
take the heat but Sanders picked her up
and. making a drive for it, caught and
passed the colt seventy yards from home,
where he made a Jimmy under the forced
pressure.
The third and last heat also saw the
favorite extended from the word, Swift
b being at her wheel all the way and
only losing by a neck. Tuna leaving her
feet just after crossing the line. The
Jester was distanced in this heat
DUSTY RHODES WINS.
Powell on Samar, the favorite for the
two-year-old scramble did not get his
mount away TO any advantage and cut
no figure in the running. Bozeman astride
the TO l chance Dusty Rhodes was first
10 show, and holding Pat Bulger safe in
the stretch won cleverly by a length. Be
hind Pat BUlger the second choice
Doris finished a poor third.
To Hildebrand's wretched ride could be
attributed the defeat OF Iras, the even
money choice for the six-furlong selling
affair. Vic Gilbert's lightweight got his
mount pocketed on the rail early in the
race, being unable 10 get clear sailing un-
I'll well into the stretch. Then he got
down and rode hard but could not quite
catch Jack Richelieu Jr., the gray geld
ing earning a nose decision. Madame
Bishop, the early pacemaker, ran third
Billy Magranes Tamm, played from
threes down TO 5 to 5. took the seven-fur-
long run. Frawley, who had the mount,
trailed Rublno and Wandering Boy. the
favorite. 10 the stretch. Then assuming
the front position with his mount he won
from Dark Secret by less than a length
in mild drive. Wandering Boy found
the route too far, finishing a moderate
third.
Seven started in the sixth event. with
Maresa closing an s TO favorite The
mare had Hildebrand on her back. and
after making all the pace was ridden out
from Gold Scratch, a to l shot Show
honors went to Timber Jim.
SUMMARY.