The San Francisco call., 1907-01-02
Gossip Of the Track


William Walker boosted Lord Nelson
from his entered price Of $500 to $1,000
and the customary advance Of IS re-
tanned the horse for the Fleur de Lis
stable. Lord Nelson has been a very
consistent performer at the meeting
and is apparently in better form than
ever before in his career.
Jockey Tommy Sandy was thrown
by Plausible while pulling up at the
finish of the fifth race and was for
tunate to escape with nothing more
serious than cut on the face. Jockey
Walter Miller was substituted Tor him
as the rider of Governor Davis in the
succeeding race while the boys in
jurfes were being attended to in the
emergency hospital which is main
tanned in connection with the track
An exercise boy named Johnson. who
Is in the employ Of w. p. Magrane,
was seriously injured yesterday by
being kicked and trampled upon by
two-year-old which he had in charge.
A jockey board of mammoth proper
tons, on which the names and num-
bers of the boys riding in each race
were displayed in sufficiently large
characters to be readily discernible
from all parts of the grand stand and
adjacent sections of the Enclosure, was
an Improvement with which Superin-
tendent Grant surprised the racegoing
public. The board which had previ-
ously been used was hardly large
enough for the purpose, although it
seemed to fill the bill until the extent
Of the Improvement became apparent
when the new board was put in SER
vice yesterday.
Trainer Spratt has become con-
vinced that Ocean Shore, the good colt
which he has been handling for A. F.
Elliott, has had too much of it and
will give him rest for a few weeks
to freshen him up. Ocean Shore has
been one of the most consistent per-
formers at the meeting and has earned
the respite to which he will now be
treated
st. Francis is another horse that
will be put on the shelf for a time,
John Freters having been reluctantly
forced to the conclusion that the colt
has trained off after the hard racing
which he has been given.
There were thirty-on books in the
big ring yesterday as follows: Charles
Walter, Berkeley Club, Oakland Club,
Martin & Co., Boston Club, Joe Rose,
w. r. Engstrom, Montana Club. Colonial
Club. Western Club, Tillicum, Golden
Gate Club. Schreiber, Sheepshead Bay
Club, Nevada Club, New York Club,
Johnny Lyon, Balm Club. Alamo Club.
Joe Harvey, Owensboro Club. San
Francisco Club, Schley Club, Falstaff
Club, Eckert & Co., Bohemian Club.
Emeryville Club, Stuyvesant Club, Bill
Jackman. In addition four fields books
and a combination book helped to han
die the vast volume Of play.
No more racing is likely at Rocking
ham Park, N. H., and the moneyed men
who put $1,o00.00o into the plant are
practically that amount out as a re-
suit of the hostile attitude of the New
Hampshire authorities to the betting
adjunct of the racing game Last sum
mer's meeting was run at loss of
$50. 900.
Essex Park will probably come in
for a division of the dates that nave
been allotted to Oaklawn for the sixty
days of racing at Hot Springs.
There will probably be a six days
meeting at Little Rock next spring.
Among those on the l1SlQo III Is the
opinion that racing at Ascot Park will
continue another season at least.
The authorities of Latonia have been
restrained from cutting a street
through the Latonia racetrack prop
erty.
Yesterdays scratches - Darthula,
Theo. Case. Borghesi, Sir Edward, Tony
Faust, King Cole, Joe Coyne.
Starter J.. ]. Hoffman officiated at the
barrier and dispatched the various
fields away in good shape except in
the fifth race, where Boloman secured
running start. Hoffman has Jake
Beckley, the ball player, as his chief
assistant. Hold on Jimmy" was con-
spicuous by his absence. to the gratifi-
cation of the spectators.
James F. Mc1lroy, the leading spirit
In the management of the Meadows
track of Seattle, is here for a few
days, en- route to Mexico. He an
nounces that the daily purses at the
Seattle meeting, which is to run sew
enty-three days, from June 15 next,
will aggregate 1880, instead OF the
$3.50 daily distribution of the last
meeting. The money will be divided
into two $500 purses, three Of $500 and
one OF $3.50. The largest purse of the
meeting will be a $4,000 handicap. Last
season the biggest stake had a value
of $500.
DR.. H E. Rowell has purchased Sir
Carter from Zick Abrams for 5000 and
the horse started yesterday in the Row
ell colors.
o. A. Bianchi has disposed Of Captain
Burnett to J. McCarty and Alaric to
Henry Mann.
Matt Refs OF Seattle wired from Los
Angeles that he would arrive from AS
cot Park today with Entire Nous and
two-year-o
A j. Levy and his crew were at the
track en- route from New York to Ascot
Park, where he will make book.
wally Brinkworth was an arrival
yesterday, having come via New Or
leans and Los Angeles He was as-
founded by the magnitude of the local
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