The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
Gossip ofihe Track

VINO inquired IN the disturbance at the
track Friday. were fined 500 each
yesterday by the stewards of the Jockey
club. who held them equally culpable
Lowe was around as usual yesterday
his injuries having proved more pain
full than serious. There is no bad blood
between the principals in the affair
and the incident is considered closed.
Andy BIakeley received instructions
from Sam Emery yesterday TO withdraw
Erbet and Blue Heron from the stable
sale and ship them to New York. on
account OF the promising form they
had shown. Blakeley viii go to Los
Angeles tomorrow to arrange for the
that will leave Arcadia soon for the
east He will return here the latter
part of the week to close up his busi-
ness affairs and expects to be off for
New York in q week or so. II is un-
likely that he will make a California
campaign next winter. as his only
object in coming to the coast this
winter was to dispose OF the surplus
horses in the Emery stable.
Dave o'Leary, who came UP from Ar
cadia yesterday with Jockey Eddie Du-
gan. Will accompany the crack light
weight back 10 Arcadia tonight. The
boy Will return here next Saturday
TO ride Hildreth's Vatican in the IN
dine stake. Vatican was shipped up
from Arcadia yesterday with Tony
Faust and probably will be started in
the four furlong race scheduled for
Tuesday. as a part of his prep" for
the stake.
Although she has hardly run up to
expectations. Barney schreiber holds to
the belief that his Sir Hercules Ohio
Belle hlly. Seattle. is one Of the top
notch year olds of the season. She
was highly tried before coming to the
coast, and Schneider holds her at
higher figure than any other youngster
in his local stable. Negotiations are
in progress for the sale of his clever
hlly Minnie Bright whose races have
been of the sparkling sort
Trainer Buxton of the Fleur de Lis
stable, who has hit the Emeryville
layers pretty hard on several occasions
several thousand dollars more out of
the ring on the victory of Lord Nell
son. His commission amounted to
$1,000 straight and place.
William Walker will leave for Ar
cadia today with Stanley Fay and Cen
ter Shot, his Los Angeles derby candi-
dates, and Monaco Maid and Ella True,
others OF his string with which he will
try to win a purse or two while at
the southern track this week.
Jockey Herman Radtke, who has
been in California all winter. left Ar
cadia a day or two ago for New York
and will sail for Russia. Radtke will
ride for General Lazareff, an army
officer and one of the biggest owners
on the Russian turf.
Eugene wayland says that he will
race his horses at Seattle this summer
instead Of going east. Most of the
horses in his stable have been sick
during the winter, but he thinks they
will recover before the time arrives
to ship north
Steel & Riley. bought Steel Blue
from Andy Blakeley at private sale
and the horse ran IN the colors of his
new owners yesterday.
W. S. Knapp. the father OF Jockey
Knapp, procured the nucleus OF a rae
ing stable at the paddock sale yes
terday, when he bought Cheers and
vronslky.
Thirty-seven books laid odds in the
big ring yesterday. an increase OF two
over the previous cutin- Silver Bill"
Riley was the only one to drop out.
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