The San Francisco call., 1905-04-15
Dan Collins Drops
In, Backed Off
the Boards.
Double Six Downs
Clausus by a
Short Neck.
BIZ FIRED e. MunHonLAND.


By FIRED e. MULHOLLAND
High Chancellor met Honiton with
the difference in weights twenty
pounds in his favor, and defeated
"Packey" Ryan's great mare for the
seven-furlong handicap yesterday at
Oakland. The wise ones strung their
checks on the chances of Honiton.
making the mare pronounced choice.
She met with splendid racing luck
throughout and 1t was only In the last
few strikes that Harry Larsen got UP
on the inside with High Chancellor,
earning head decision in 1:26h. Prin-
cess Titania, the early pacemaker, f1n-
ished third.
After five straight favorites had TAX
en- the count, Leila managed to draw
down the last purse, going to the post
at odds of II to 10. The splendid card
drew a large attendance.
Equorum Rex, the favorite, with
Minder in the saddle, got no part of
the money in the 2-year-old dash at
half a mile. Well played at to /, Sir
Edward was In front all the way, win
ming cleyerly from Midmont and Bill
Perry.
McBRIDE7S POOR JUDGMENT.
A long suffering public was next
compelled to watch Mcbride handle
another favorite in his characteristic
style. The Miller stable pilot had the
mount on Hagerdon in the Futurity
course sprint following. The big gel
ding opened at to g, the odds scared
to 9 to 5, and the story is told. Double
Six, the second choice. received steady
support and in a driving finish downed
Cldusus a neck. The show went to
Royal Rogue.
Dan Collins, which had been residing
in the suburbs for quite period, kick
ed up a rumpus in the x-furlong run
with catch-aS-catch-can weights UP.
Every sure-shot man at the track
had Dan for the joker in the deck, and
when 90 to 1 was chaIked up the ring
resembled the run on Chinese faro
bank. 1t looked as If everybody got
aboard but one poor blind man, and he
couldn't see his way clear to reach the
books. When business had somewhat
subsided there was q bit of Az to
still on draught.
KNAPP LANDS THE OUTSIDER
The good things cargo consisted of
Knapp and 121 pounds. With the ease
that an elephant displays in packing a
howdah, Dan Collins dropped his bur-
den nearly three lengths ahead of Red
mont and Revolt at the wire Royal
2
back among the spear bearers.
It's a box of seidlitz powders to a
ferry-boat beefsteak that Frank SulIi-
vans broken collarbone did not take
nearly so long to mend as will the frac-
ture sustained by the admirers of
Golden Ivy, the favorite, on which he
finished third in the mile and seventy
yard run. Frank did the best he could,
but still lacks strength with which to
finish on. Esherin, ridden by Lloyd
Fountain and second choice. led from
the kickoff, beating Flaunt nearly a
length. Golden Ivy ran third.
Nothing but coin of the realm found
its way into the books on Leila to take
the concluding mile run. She won
easily from Ralph Young. Forest King
finished third.
TRACK NOTES.
Jake Jones finally found his way
into the Winners circle with Sir Ed
ward.
Harry Larsen had on his riding
clothes for sure, plotting three win
ners-
Perhaps at the Ascot Park bottling
works uncorkings like Dan Collins
were of frequent occurrence. but 1t
was too highly charged for this end of
the line. The entries of Fred Baird's
stable were ordered refused in future
by the judges.
The conditions of novel race are
being arranged for the closing day at
Oakland between two of the smallest
ponies in the country. Thomas H.
Williams Jr., the young son of the
president of the jockey club, is the
possessor of Shetland thirty inches
tall and weighing $50 pounds. ]. K.
Frayling, trainer for G. Stubenbord,
has a Welch pony thirty-three inches
in height, tipping the scales at 12S1s
pounds. The distance will probably
be 100 yards with a silver cup as the
trophy. Roscoe Coleman and Cricket
Kelly have already been mentioned to
do the riding, each being in the spider
weight class.
The crack three-year-old Celeres is
lust as good as sold to Edwin Gaylord.
The wealthy Denver horseman has
forwarded the $4,000 asked for the
son of Mako, and Trainer George Bur-
ger notified the present owner of
Celeres yesterday that the money is at
his disposal.