Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-06


The fifth race will have but three
starters, Toupee, Varieties and Lustig
The distance is one mile.
on past performances Toupee seems
to hold a big edge over the others and
should win all the way.
Varieties will be the contender and
should have no difficulty in beating Out
Lustig for the place.
The probabilities arc that Toupee
viii be held at to 90 with no place
or show prices on any of them.
The percentage of winning favoritcs
n Ascot this season and the all-around
consistency Of the performers. with few
exceptions, is the cause Of much favor
able comment by raCegoers. The record
of winning favorltes thus far I'm the
season is by far greater than the
average, and the uniform winning days
by the public as against the few fights
OF prosperity by the books demon
strates that the public has outguessed
the bookies in the majority of in
stances. The vigilance and determined
manner of the judges in dealing with
rough riding and foul tactics by the
jockeys has almost entirely eliminated
this element Of doubt which ordinarily
surrounds the running of poplar choices
and Offenses of this nature subject the
offending rider to severe penalties AL
together the game has been cleaner and
freer of faint this season than ever
before. say those who have been OBJ
servers at previous meetings, and the
complaints OF racegoers as to the con-
duct Of horses, owners and jockeys
have been practically unknown during
the thirty-two days of racing.
Durnell and williams are running q
hot race for first honors as leaders Of
the winning owners " column. Will
liamS was away to a running start at
the beginning of the season and ended
last week with nearly double the
amount of winnings earned by Durnell.
but the latter has been hitting up at
lively gait in the past few days and If
he keeps It up much longer the end will
be a victory for him. Williams owns
high class string and has a knack of
winning at least one race a day on an
average. but Durnell occasionally takes
couple.
Evelyn Griffin gives promise of be-
coming one of the best 3-year-olds at
Ascot before the end of the season. She
is a quick breaker. possesses a world of
speed and can come from behind and
win from good ones. She merely
N.
This is one of the best of II. n. Grifin's
string shown here this season. If he
has any others equally as good it is
not difficult to predict the degree of
prosperity in store for him during the
season.
The racing firm of LuZader e Ungar
is reported to have been dissolved and
each of the partners, +. Luzader and
p. Ungar had entries in the events run
off yesterday Stoessel Won the sixth
race for Luzader and Col. Bronston ran
third in the third race for p. Ungar
Jockeys Waterbury and Carroll ac-
companied a recent shipment of horses
from the Blute and Mcdaniel stables to
Oakland and will ride at the northern
track during the remainder Of the
season.
The books were 50 severely "stung"
by the victories Of Sir Wilfred and In
cantation Thursday that l to was the
opening odds placed against their
stable companion. Gutter. Anything
with the Durnell trade mark on is as
ghost for the bookies. and they refuse
to take any unusual or even ordinary
liberties with his entries.
Booklets containing the program of
events for each day Of next week have
been issued and are ready for distribu
tion among the owners.
Steve rHommedieu. one of the most
picturesque characters of the American
turf and natural born plunger is
grieving at the loss of $4,000 since
cutting into the Ascot game. Steve
says it is the hardest game he ever
bucked i'm all his life and he has been
up against some rather rough ones.
Nearly every book in the ring quit
winning on the day yesterday, this
being about the sixth winning day of
the season. The public is nearly $780,,
90 ahead of the bookies on the season.
1t is estimated that fully 2000 east
erners were in attendance at Ascot yes
terday. Tourists are prominent in all
the Ascot crowds this season and the
percentage of attendance is about
evenly divided between them and An
gelenOs.
"Dick" Williams celebrated his
thirty-sixth birthday Thursday night
at his temporary home at 1l45 East
Fifty-siXth street. Several intimate
friends of the popular owner-trainer-
manager gathered at the home to join
in the festivities, although all without
exception refused to take his statement
seriously that he was only 36 years old
J. j. McCafferty asserted that Williams
was an old man when he (McCafferty)
was the premier jockey of the Ameri-
can turf and McCaffeTty further AYERS
that he has been retired for twenty
five years. Desr ite his youthful ap-
pearance. Williams clings to the ac-
curacy of his statement that he is only
SO, and until the family record is
brought out to dispute it this figure
must be accepted,
Jockey Miller rode in good form yes
terday and pioted two winners to the
wire and rode one second and one third
i'm four mounts. The duel between
Miller and Dugan for the riding honors
of Ascot is closely draw and promies
to be a desperate struggle Both are
topnotchers in the saddle and their
presence in the saddle serves to lower
the prices on their mounts.
The selling war was given new life
yesterday when William Walker
boosted Theo Case from $500, his en-
tered price, to 1905, at which figure S.
Nj. Williams retained ownership. j. j.