The San Francisco call., 1905-02-03
Syphon Girl Shows
to Be a Clever
Young Miss.
Arcade Disposes of
ClOverland in
the Last.
BY FIRED e. MULHoILAND.

The success attending three 1aVorlbSs
and the clever saddle work Of Alar1e
were the distinguishing features OF the
sport yesterday at Oakland track AS
a mud pilot Alar1e stands head and
shoulders over the other riders and car
ried away the honors bv finishing first
on Syphon Girl, A Muskoday ana ar
cace with his only other mount, Hip
ponax, he succeeded in picking UP the
small end of the purse.
Charley Patterson's FLY, Syphon Glrl'
an odds-on favorite for the maiden
-yesr-old scramble, had TO De
mounds the best TO win. Soon after the
start she was sharply cut on and al
most pulled up TO a walk. Alarie tnen
got her through on the inside ana In
hard drive beat George A Knight
neck Slow 10 get underway, Mazapah
ran a good third.
REVOLT SPOILS A COUP.
Revolt by capturing the fve-furlong
sprint spoiled an awful good thing.
Tam @ 'Shanter. the mount Of Ike Tul-
lett. was backed almost off the boards
at even money and in fierce drive
Knapp. astride the TO 1 shot, led the
favorite out half a length. Suburban
Queen, weakly handled, lost the show
TO HippOnaX.
Nearly every one Of the nine start
ers in the six-furlong selling affair re-
ceiyed more or less support, Troy and
FPrestano enjoying a mild call in the
betting. The winner turned up in Char
ley McCafferty's The Hawaiian, Z to
! shot, which downed Adirondack
nose The show went to Prestano. Troy
retired early
With Jake Jones instead Of o. Chand-
Ter on his back Hainault proved 10 be
Quite another horse. The brown gelding
- Ia fox-0rffa fnY. tho mile
and a sixteenth selling affair. He had
The race in hand from start to finish.
Stilicho nosed BarTack out Of place
hOnors. G. W. Trahern performed fair
ly well.
ALBERT FIR UNABLE TO LAND.
Invariably held at a short price, AL
bert Fir seems unable to land purse.
The Jones & Lusk colt went into the
starters hands to favorite for the
purse event at six furlongs and finished
third. A Muskoday, backed from and
10 down to and excellently ridden by
Alarie, came home clever winner over
Bob Ragon. Had the latter been away
from the barrier among the firse three
he would probably have finished first.
The Figaro stables recent addition
Arcade disposed of his company with
out great effort IN the concluding mile
run The Ben Ali horse was installed
faVOrlte, ana aIter racing SOuIrlere 10 a
standstill drew away and finished two
lengths before Cloverland at the wire.
TRACK NOTES.
1t is about up to Alarie now to win
the Burns handicap tomorrow with
Elliott.
W. S. johnson. or Long Willie" as
he is known. created a disturbance in
the ring on Wednesday. He had his
badge taken I'D and was denied the
track privileges yesterday.
o. Chandler was indefinitely sus-
pended by the judges. The boys work
has been ragged and uncertain of
late. The sudden improvement shown
by DR.. Sherman and Hainault caused
the ruling.
Jimmy Mclaughlin, once the rival
Of Snapper Garrison in the saddle.
now one Of the best known trainers
on the New York track, came up
from Los Angeles yesterday morning.
Jimmy has been meeting with ex-
cellent success at Ascot Park and will
take flyer at ''the Burns" with his
Ben Strome colt Pasadena. The
three-year-old was due to reach Oak
land last night. Grover Cleveland
Fuller, who pilots Pasadena in the big
race. comes uD tonight from Los An
geles. Foncasta, Bragg and seven
horses owned by McClary & Co. were
shipped from Los Angeles for Oak
land yesterday.
Tobe Ramsey has re-engaged Iva
Powell 20 ride for his stable.
Michaels was given his release.
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