The San Francisco call., 1908-11-08
sPRECkELs GETS FIRST RACE

The honor of winning the initial race
OF the season fell to A. B. Spreckles,
master of Napa stock farm whose dis
tinguished cripple-Voorhees- little
trouble in taking the measure of the
! band of selling platers against which
ne was running. Trainer Enoch Wish
| ard, who is handling the Spreckels
horses here this winter, sent Voorhees,
/ to the post as Mt as a fiddle and he
simply toyed' with his opposition and
came on to win at the will of his rider,
Jockey Archibald whose contract was
recently acquired by George Berry
/ SDreckels racing manager. ST. Francis
which Voorhees, had supplanted in ia
lvoritism, ran into an early lead of sew
erai lengths. but was no match for
iNoorheeS wnen Archibald set that horse
down and had to be content with talk
ing second money. Military Man.
whose long absence from the races led
the DoolSieS to lay 100 to ! against his
! chances, closed with sufficient resolu-
! tion after being STUFFED back in the
early stages, to drop into third place at
the wire. O. a. Bianchi, his trainer.
| obtained 80 TO l against the horse to
show. Jockey Sweet failed TO make any
kind of a showing with PhalanX, one of
! the choices of the race, and the horse
was never prominent. The hackers of
Mabel Hollander entertained visions of
getting some of the money when she
was running close to the pace in the
/ early part of the race, but she retired
when the. stretch turn had been nego-
! tiated.
= YEAR OLD UPSET
The 2 year old race brought a big
upset when Achieve the odds on choice,
| finished last as result of piece of
rough riding for which Jockey A.
Walsh. who was astride of Colonel w.
| e. Applegate's crack filly Righteasy
the winner, was held responsible, and
fined SIS. Achieve was caught in a
jam soon after the start and Jockey
Shilling was forced to pull up to avert
| fall. After Walsh had obtained the
| lead by cutting across the field with
Righteasy the result was never in
| doubt that filly leading throughout
and negotiating five furiongs in the
| fast time of :59 3-5. Ltstowel held the
balance safe at all stages and Tom
Hayward got up at the end to beat
the others ever had loolxin. the sec
ond choice, Torbellino. being among
those that suffered from the jam that
Jockey Walsh was disciplined for.
| Woodcraft from the Hildreth stable
was plunged on to take the third, but
ran below expectations and. at no time
| the race. finished outside the money.
| w. T. Overton, setting a sizzling pace
from the beginning, ran away from his
company and won by big margin. in
cidentally clipping 1-5 of a second from
the track record for a mile and 20
yards. made by Veil at the beginning
! Of last season, by running the distance
| in / 40 1-5. which is within 1-5 of a
| second of the worlds record. Overton
was recently purchased by Colonel w.
E. Applegate in Kentucky and was
making his initial start on the coast
His performance convinced local race
| goers that he is a better horse than
! they were willing to give him credit
| for being. Colonel Applegate is re-
ported to have won a substantial bet
on both winners that his trainers sad
died.
REMEMBER KNOCKED HARD
| Remember was most fancied to win
| the fifth and might have delivered the
goods but for getting into trouble on
! the first turn, in consequence of which
! she was knocked back almost to last
place Jockey Walsh made up the lost
! ground gradually and the mare made
a gallant run, overtaking all but Mike
| Jordan, II to / shot, with which
Jockey Ross had been within striking
! distance Of the pace. throughout