The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01
BOOKS Lose Heavily on Days
Operations and Talent
Rejoices
Rejoiices
YESTERDAYS WINNERS
BY j. r. Jefsery

Aside from sudden and StartllnS 1Iu-
proyement shown by Nellie Racine, CO.
incident with switch in Jockeys from
Miller to Goldstein, yesterdays results
at Emeryville were quite in keeping
with what they should have been in
the light of past performances. Four
favorites and a second choice accounted
for the remaining five races. and tne
ring lost heavily to the talent on the
days operations. Nearly every one Of
the 81 books. in line were touched UP
for losses ranging from a few hundred
up into the thousands: The layers com
planned that there was play for only
one or two horses in. each race all day
long. -
The victory of Nellie Racine in. the
opening race, while a sumner for the
talent, gave the bookies4hefr only fav-.
orab1e break. Nearly all the books had
"a clean sheet so far as the winner was
concerned. but there was lively place
play on Pal, which, ran second. and.
this ate up some of the profits. Pal
had the foot of his field, after Bell
Reed had shot his bolt. early in the
contest and looked all over the winner:
sixteenth out. only to lose to. Nellie.
Racine by a. head in the closing strides
GoLDsTEIN RODE WELL
Goldstein rode Nellie Racine with in.
finitely- more courage than Miller
showed in handling her last last time
out. when she had finished out of tne
money as a favorite. principally be-
cause Miller. appeared afraid TO take
chance to come through on, the rall.
Go1dstein stuck to the rail with her
yesterday and was not afraid to. take
advantage of an opening which pre-.
sented itself in the stretch.
+ Fair Fagot, which took the show at
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beat the tiring favorite, Entire Nous.
by nose. The latter seems to be far
from her good form, for she had no
excuse for the poor showing that she
made. having got off In front and being
close UP to the pace from the begin
ming.
The well played Middle beat the gate
in the year old event, but lost By
head TO the lukewarm favorite, King
Ferdinand, which came from behind
with great gameness under vigorous
urging by Jockey Boland. Middle
might have Won had not Jockey Fischer
foundered all over him when 1t came
down TO the hard end drive. Mental
Anguish opened at short odds on ac-
count OF impressive work, in spite of
the fact that 1t was the first start of
his career, showed world of speed
after getting off poorly. took the lead
al Tue mead Ol the StISlCn, out WEAK
ened in the final furlong as IL a trifie
short. and wound up third. His per
formance presaged an early win.
DUEL. IN THIRD RACE
The third race developed into a duel
between Montclair. the second choice.
and Belmere. the favorite. Alontclair
had the early speed to take the track
and avoid interference, and had just
enough left when Miller brought Bel
mere along and Joined issue in the
stretch to outlast the favorite by a
head in a long sustained and thrilling
drive. Belmere probably would have
won but for having been sharply cut
off and thrown back shortly after the
start. The making up of this lost
ground entailed a considerable effort,
which undoubtedly told at the end
Mar rtinmas came from poor last at the
turn to beat all the others for show,
half a dozen lengths behind the two
struggling leaders.
yox PopuH and. Daruma. the two
choices. made a pretty contest of the
fourth. Daruma cut out all the run
ming but Vox Populi came with q SEN
sational stretch sprint after having
met with interference which cost him
the loss of several lengths in the early
stages and got up in the very last
stride to win by head. Dollie Doll
lars was able to- take third place when
ST. Elmwood weakened in the stretch.
WAS EASY WINNER
Friar of Elgin, which had been well
played to take the fifth. encouraged his
hackers by leading for half a mile: !:
then Miller sent Wap to the front and
the race was as good as over. for Wap
only had to gallop the rest of the way.
Billy Meyer and WoIfville both passed
Friar of Elgin in the stretch and took
the places behind the winner.
Humero was played with surprising
confidence to take the closing race or
the day in spite of his bad showing
the previous time out. Several promi-
nent plungers figured among his back
ers The horse ran in a way which was
in striking contrast to his previous
performance. for he. was a keen con-
tender at all stages. Arthur Hyman,
with the novice Page as his pilot. took
the lead from IEumero at the far turn
and Miller had to ride his prettiest to
overtake and pass the Baldwin sprinter
in the stretch: but he did it and HIS
mount won by the greater part of a
length in fierce drive. Sir Wesley,
which Arthur Hynlan beat for the place
by head, would have been second but
for having been pinned in along the
rail In the closing strides. My Bill
the hot thing of the race. showed moth
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