Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29
FOUR FIRST CHOICES SCORE
FOR TALENT
Arimo Annexes Feature Race After
Being Heavily Backed by Owner
Carman-Good Things Go
Astray
BY J. G. GRIFFIN

= Four first choices, one that opened
as favorite and a second choice that
called for barrel of money managed to
stray into the circle in front of the pa
CODA and the books received humping
that will hold them for a while. The
block men took back 4 little of their scrip
on the furry caused by Ell Cazador in
the fifth race and Red Reynard in the
last, as both good things failed to con-
meet with the capital prize and left their
hackers in the lurch.
With the exception of the first num-
Der on the card, close finishes were not
to be found, track conditiens making 1t
soft for the mudders. The rain of the
night before soaked the course fairly
well and slow time was the order of the
day.
r. F. Carman picked out the days
feature, free handicap at a mile, as
the race in which to make expenses, and
he backed Arimo, the winner. from high
price of SSto . to odds-on at post time.
Burns rode nice race and the finish
carried out the impression which existed
in the minds of the wise ones that the
Carman trick was ''in."
-Four fair horses that were given chance
together with Daruma and Old Dominick
went out to face Jake Hoffman and they
were all more or less fancied in the
ring. Arimo was always favorite, but
Critic and Lisaro came in for their share
of support and Chimney Sweep main
tained an even price on the boards.
The bunch went out of the mile chute
well together and Old Dominick was
elected to make the pace. Daruma es-
sayed to follow for quarter of a mile,
but Critic was moved up here and at the
next call was leading by a length, Old
DominiclS being next and Lisaro third.
Arimo was in a pocket most OF the way,
anu although close up 1t looked as
though Burns could not get through with
out pulling up.
Arino NComes Through
AT the turn for home Critic began to
falter and Lisaro drew alongside, with
Arimo coming by on the rail. When
Strengthened out the Carman trick, after
a short brush with Lisaro, drew away
and was an easy winner by five lengths
Chimney Sweep passed the firing pace
maker, Critic, as yell as Lisaro, the lat
ter being unable to get any part of the
money. The Sweep was five and half
lengths in front of Critic for place honors,
the Bauer entry leaving Lisaro an equal
distance behind for the short end of
things.
The longest race of the season, and in
cidentally the first to start on turn,
was won by First Peep, which was two
lengths ahead of Mamie Algol at the
end OF the mile and half. Kinsman
caught the tired Ell Primero a little way
from the wire and was head behind
Mamie at the end.
Y, Even considering track conditions the
zee was unusually slow. Henry was
ven the place of honor and carried the
nch all the way around to the mile
ltion Here he retreated as though
chored and everything In the race
Ssed him before the next quarter was
ched First Peep had been kept in
|lD L6uulHB pOSlllOA tllC way ohN
they opened up to let him through
kbald set the filly down TO gallop
st part of the journey, Mamie AL
ID Kinsman had a sharp brush for
honors but the Offut horse was
Ito the task of getting up, losing
money to Algol by a long head
Although entered for an even $100O
La Gloria ran like real race horse,
and was easily best in the six-furlong
event, which came second on the pro-
gram and which called for field of
five. The old story of fast animal
getting all the best of the break and
betting allowed to go out in front with
nothing trying to stick was told again,
for La Gloria won by nearly three
lengths from Waterbury and General
Haley. The latter was fancied as sec
ond choice because of his well-known
liking for the going, but was nearly left
and when it came to run the best he
could get was the short end of the purse,
waterbury being second.
La Gloria broke flying and Martin
rushed her along until she was fifteen
lengths ahead of her field at the first
quarter Gradually this lead was cut
down by Waterbury until at the end less
than three lengths separated the first
two. General Haley made nice run in
the stretch, but was never equal to the
task of catching the others. Lord of the
Forest and BY Play each showed little
speed. but when it came to racing finished
where the betting asked them to-,
Musgrave didn't give Green Goods the
most perfect ride in the world in the
first race. five furlong sprint for two
year-old one-time and non-winners, and
Ruscimo. belonging to John Shields, won
on the post by head. Karoda, another
good thing was third.
Shields unloaded Ruscimo from the cars