The San Francisco call., 1905-01-06
Mansard Meets With
Poor Racing Luck
and Gets Place.
Smithy Kane Awakes
With a Start and
Nearly Wins.

jake Jones didn't accomplish mucn
with Misty's Pride in the five-furlong
purse event yesterday at Oakland.
jake doesn't appear able to do much
with any of the short-priced ones he
rides Of late Pretty soon his services
will not be in such big demand.
The Oregon mare was played down
from to to 13 to 10 and ran fourth.
She did not run her race. Sad Sam,
to chance, after cutting off and foul
ing almost the whole field on the far
turn slid in less than a length ahead of
Mansard In 1:005A. AS the race was run
the latter sprinter should have won, for
when cut off by Sad Sam Davis had to
pull him UP, losing at least three
lengths. The favorite lost show honors
to Martinmas.
-FOUR OUTSIDERS WIN.
Outsiders captured the first four num-
bers on the card, then two choices
reached home in front The track was
in excellent condition and large
crowd viewed the sport
Mimo, the mount of Travers, had first
call in the betting in the opening six
furlong event, and the gelding finished
second to Mocorito. The latter mare re-
ceived careful nursing at the hands OF
Mcbride, and coming from behind out
gained the first choice, winning by
nearly a length. Hipponax finished a
close third, in front of The Cure.
There were fourteen starters for the
seven-furlong selling run. which fol-
lowed. Suburban Queen looked the most
| eligible, but Knapp could not drop the
mare in among the first three The WIN
ner turned up in Karabel, a 13 to / shot,
which scored, ridden out, from Cinna-
bar and Haven Run. Suburban Queen
l Ill. L. x.r.a&
chance.
ROBERT MITCHELL HAS SPEED.
| Robert Mitchell, with Travers in the
saddle made an awful showing of his
company in the -furlong sprint for
| three-year- -olds. The Kismet colt re-
ceded in the betting to to / and then
went out and won in stake horse
fashion, scampering in nine lengths be-
fore Sweet Kitty Bellairs, a so to 1
shot Princess Zula, the to l favor
ite, with Helgesen up. ran a fair
third.
A dozen cheap platers lined up in
| the mile and seventy yard selling num-
ber. 44ugie, with Davis up, closed an
IL to s choice and with little in re-
serve downed Adirondack less than a
| length Mcbride finished third on
Rene, a 30 to l outsider. Frank Woods,
the mount of Bullman, the opening
favorite, came in for steady support,
| but the old horse appears to be all in.
| After running two bloomers Smithy
Kane came out for flair dinkum'
| in the concluding five and a half fur
/ long dash. The fireside folks had the
| temerity to back the Texas halfbreed
| to beat Prince BrutuS, l to fav-
orite. and the good thing nearly went
through. Smithy Kane unwound a ball
of speed which was much longer than
! In6 70 hn
sessed. Jake Jones, who rode the fav-
/ orite tumbled to this fact when the
| stretch was reached and through dint
of hard work got the Prince up in
time to win by a neck. David Boland
was third.
TRACK NOTES.
The apprentice allowance of Travers
expires to-day.
Only a few days back Lee Blasingame
lost Salable from a selling race. Kan
sas'' Price claiming the son of Sam
Lucas. The three -year-old started in
| the first race yesterday with the Price
colorS up for the first time, and after
| finishing fifth was claimed by George
! Wentworth, trainer of Mocorito for
1925.
M. ]. DAILY purchased Arcade from
| Walter Jennings yesterday for $1,000.
Puerl Wilkerson, now in Los Angeles,
claims to hold contract on the ser
vices of Big Bill' Knapp, the jockey.
! which does not expire until March rs
next. The Jockeys father affirms that
no such contract exists. Wilkerson
| fled his claim with Judge Hamilton
| of Ascot Park. Knapp Sr. and his son
left for Los Angeles last evening to
settle up the matter. Walter Jen-
nings recently engaged Knapp to do
! the riding for his stable, and he states
that even if Wilkerson does hold any
sort of a contract on Knapp it is null
| and void, for Wilkerson owes the
! jockey $500 in unpaid riding fees.
The Pacific Jockey Club allotted the
following dates at a meeting held yes
! terday: Seattle, May q to July 49,
inclusive; Portland, July % to Sep
tember 16, inclusive. Kenilworth Park
Petaluma, has two weeks, following
the close of the season at Oakland.
Several touches have come off in the
ring since the season opened, and Dell
| Fountain is the latest victim. Dell
started to make a bet on some horse
! yesterday, and while holding up his
wager to a bookmaker the crook re-
lieved him of S420 which he carried in
a side pocket.
Robert Mitchell, winner of the third
event, was bid up from $500 to $1,000 by
| Kansas" Price, owner of Sweet Kit
ty Bellairs, which finished second. Gill
Summers retained the colt with the
usual S. bid.
Kansas" Price shipped Schoolmate
to Los Angeles last night, The Wads-
worth gelding will start in the stake
| event at Ascot Park tomorrow, with
112 pounds up. Anderson went down
to ride him.
! Willie Harris and Jim Neil had a
wordy argument on the paddock lawn
over the capabilities of Jockey w.
! Davis Harris, who holds the contract
on Davis, made a complaint to the
judges about the remarks passed by