Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-16

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finished on her own courage. This one
is worth remembering for early action.
Throw out Anona's race. She was
in close quarters all the way and could
not get out until too late. She can
do better.
Sportsman interfered slightly with
McJetta near the wire, but 1t was not
enough for him to be disqualified.
w. d. Millard bought Sheriff Bell
from w. A. stanton for $1,000. He was
beaten nose I'm hard drive.
Briarthorpe. a cast-off from j. J.
McCafferty's barn. won his first out for
his new owner, r. Crysler. There
is evidently some hoodoo in McCaf-
ferty's barn. as this is the fourth one
he let go that won their first out.
Americana came to life suddenly. In
his last race he was beaten away off
Yesterday he romped home an easy
winner at the good odds ~ to 1.
Lady Rohesia can do better. The
boy had her pocketed all the way and
when he had a chance to get through
he did not see the opportunity.
The Bugaboo was the best thing of
the day to go through. Some pencil
ers chalked up s to 1, but an eager
crowd snapped it up and his odds
went to to 1. The money went down
in punches and at post time the best
price was to 8.
Komombo was heavily backed at s
to /, but the best she could do was to
show. Tab this one for a three-fourth
race. Is good now.
That the turf fight in New orleans
will be hot one no one can doubt. c.
S. Bush. who has been in rather poor
health, has placed the management of
the Crescent City Jockey club affairs
in the hands of Bud Renaud.
In former years the Crescent City
club has not been noted for any gen
erosity and a complimentary badge
was as scarce an article as a hens
tooth.
New Orleans is now flooded with free
passes, and it is said that the admis-
sion charge will be taken off by both
tracks. OF course that would be
mighty bad thing for racing and would
most likely cause the citizens and the
city officials to step in and say few
things.
Had Manager Bush showed any liber
ality of view whatever in the first
place the whole fight might have been
avoided. He was determined, how
ever, that the new track hould have
no dates. and they were given none
by the Western Jockey club
The Crescent City club has now de-
cided to raise all purses to $500 and
$500.
They have also made the price for
the books doing business $100 a day
fiat. 1t has long been the rule to give
bookmakers the privilege of booking
on the first five races for $1OO per day,
with the purse for the sixth race pro-
rated in the ring. This move is one
that has long been considered desirable
as there seemed to be no valid reason
why the books should be compelled to
furnish the purse for the sixth race
each day. In addition to this, there
has always been an additional charge
of $3.50 per day for Service" which
includes the calling of the results in
the ring, slate slips, jockey slips, etc.
This, too, will be furnished free under
the new arrangement.
1t looks as if before the war is over
that Mr.. Bush will be sorry that he
did not consent to dates for the new
track, for it is sure thing that such
an arrangement would have brought
more and better horses to New Orleans
and that he would have made more
money with fifty-day date than he
will make under existing circumstances
with 100 days.
Hal Anderson, who won the Burns
Oil W. w. AOUuOll, leII san
Francisco for New Orleans yesterday.
OF the 2-year-olds thus far shown
Father Catcham seems to be the best;
this colt has started seven times and
has only been out of the money once.
Wee Girl, from the same stable, is a
close second and has five wins out of
nine starts t. her credit.
James Coffey, one of the best known
owners now at Ascot park, left last
night with his stable for Oakland,
where he proposes to race for a few
days and then go on to Chicago
Jockey S. Bonner cut in at Ascot
yesterday afternoon. He had the
mount on James Butes three-year-
old colt, Tim Hurst. Bonner has
been riding at Oakland this season.
Puryear d. was represented in 1904
by seven two-year-olds. DR.. Leggo