The San Francisco call., 1904-12-08
Downfall of San Nicolas
and of Nigrette Prove
Costly for the Talent
PULLMAN PILOTS ARA
Mansard Disposes of a
Fast Lot of Sprinters.
Toledo Wins Cleverly
BY FRED e. MULHoLLAND.

Ananias, owned by Johnny Schorr
and ridden by Big Bill" Knapp. led
, his field a forlorn chase in the mile
handicap yesterday at Oakland. The
Schorr colt carried 1O4 pounds. an i'm
post that fitted him to 1T"
Plunged on at odds Of 13 TO 10, he
made all the running and won easily
from Gateway, the second choice, in
1884. .Bombardier was downed with
ease for the show by Vesuvian. Veter-
ano, the only other starter, is still shy
of his old time speed.
The attendance was large and the
betting almost as furious as on a holi-
day. FaVorites annexed three Of the
purses
John Bullman had his first mount at
the meeting in the opening sprint over
the Futurity course for -year-olds.
He pilOted Ara, Z to / shot and came
within a short head of defeating the
I Is TO 20 favorite Golden Buck, ridden
by Davis. Travers, astride Velna, fin
ished third.
PONAPA WINS CLEVERLY.
Bob Smiths Ponapa, played down
from TO 312. took the five and a half
fCrlong run which followed from a big
field. Sammy Greenfield had the leg
up on Ponapa and passing David Bo-
land on the far turn assumed the front
position and at the wire led Harka
over the line a length. The latter filly
closed at % TO l. Kunz, on the post
faVorite, The Reprobate. only lost the
place by nose. Big Bill Knapp was
unfortunate in getting away among the
tail-enders with Gallant Cassie.
For an ll-tO-l0 favorite, Dungannon
assuredly made a splendid showing in
the miie-and- -seventF-yard selling af-
fair At no stage Of the racing did she
show in better than fifth position. and
finally ended up a poor sixth. Never
theless her stable connections thought
she would win, and the betting had a
healthy appearance. Wonderful to re-
late, Flaneur, at 10 to /. with Frank
Sullivan up. downed old Flying Torpe-
do a neck. J. V. Kirby ran an indiffer-
ent third.
SAN NICHOLAS is UNLUCKY.
DR.. RowelTs black horse. San
Nicholas, favorite for the six-furlong
selling feature, in which quite a galaxy
Of speed found representation, had his
chances ruined at the start. AS the
barrier was sprung he was bumped
and knocked to his knees by ORC Viva
and could not recover the ground then
lost. Sad Sam led almost TO the stretch,
where II. L. Frank, ridden by Nc
]
found the pace too hot and w. Davis
forged to the front with Mansard. In
/ a mild drive ne earned the decision
from Romaine by nearly a length. The
winners price receded from to 10
TO /.
After her showing in the concluding
-furlong purse event, it would
look as if the bruising race run by Nj
| grette when she defeated Andrew b.
Cook several days back had dulled the
little mares speed. Her price was
played down from to 5 to to 5, and
at no time did she look a winner. Hell
gesen, astride Toledo, waited on Whoa
Bill and Ishtar to the stretch, where he
made his move, and at the end won
| cleverly. Ishtar against which so to
! was laid, lost the place to Whoa Bill
| by half length.
TRACK NOTES.
w. Davis was the only rider to pi-
! lot two winners.
Frank Sullivan finally got a move
on and rode a clever race on Flaneur
Twenty-one books cut in. Frank
Eckert and the Broadway Club were
the new corners.
y. S. Hand, a well known turfman
/ is here from New York He has two
horses now en- route from the East
/ Ample Blossom and Miller; Ddugh-
/ ter
The Fretter felt so good after his
winning race on Tuesday that he rar
away five miles with his exercise boy
/ yesterday morning.
Following are the entries for the
Family Club handicap to be run or
Saturday at one and a sixteenth miles
/ Military Man, Mansard. G.. w. Ira
hern, Toledo, Veterano. Ishlana, Orc
Viva, Telephone, Leila, Elliott, Claude
Stroller. Ananias. Fossil, Divina, Sar
Nicholas. Barkleyite, Bombardier
Whoa Bill, Vesuvian, Gold Money, Ar
cade. Nigrette, Gateway, Modicum