The San Francisco call., 1909-03-26
0DDSON CHOICES
B0WLED OVER AT
EMERYVILLE
Steel EOrdeIlO and Ketchemike
Among fHe FaVOrifeS TO
Meet Defeat
BY }. K. Jefery

its getting to be the rule at Emery
F lie nowadays that the more promising
~ horses chances appear to be or
paper the less the likelihood that he
NlN win. For a month or more the
racing has been marked by almost con-
t.nu0us form reversals that have hit
--He public hard and reduced the volume
VI patronage materially. The biblical
Injunction that The first shall be last
and the last shall be first" has been
eEemplihed with painful frequency.
Yesterday proved no exception to the
rule. steel. FordelIo and. Ketchemike.
"a trio OF odds on choices whose FORM
varranted the short prices at which
the bookies held them, were bowled
over one after the other. steel and
Fordello managed TO squeeze into third
place at the. finish line, but Ketchemike
lgured among the also rams
steel ran in the colors Of William
Walker, whose stable Inconsistencies
have aroused much bad feeling amoux
I-e patrons, but il is only fair that
sEeels failure 10 win should noe be
eharged up against Walker. Starter
Iwyer, whose form at the barrier OF
late has left much TO be desired. was
chiefly responsible for SteeIS Compare
lively poor showing. Ie5per sprung
the barrier with Steel 1Innrepared for
The break, and IN ,yoflsequence the horse
start and dHrrowly escaped being
LlLoWh .><er the fence. He ran
"lAhil = race after getting clear sail
--s- and tired only at the end OF
:. fme effort A stumble in the last
5ump or so cost him the place. The
. winner, FL PicarO, came from the stable
~ =. H. Williams, as did Bellwether,
winner OF the race in which Foroello
made his disappointing showing as IA
Norite, Inasmuch as Bellwether had
Vailed as a favorfte in his Immediately
preceding start It was case OF the
Dlhilc getting il in the neck both go
Fordello's race was unaccounta bly,.
bad He was seemingly deficient In
the speed which had marked his pre-
v-ous starts and the judges Will con-
duct an inquiry intO his shortcomings
r0day- Lee, the Forsythe stable rider,
was up
After BeIlwether had won the third.
the form students were willing TO take
any price against ketchemlke. The
latter had easily beaten Bellwether a
cay or two previously, ana Ketchemike
was running against field that Bell
Fvether looked TO hold entirely safe.
Alas for misplaced confidence ketch-
emlke could not raise ga1op, and
finished fourth with Jockey Butler as
}Aerchemike investigating today while
they are on the Investigating job.
Don Enrique. recently acquired by H.
o. BedWeu from G. r. Ellison, gelloped
10 his field all the way. 1t had been
predicted that Bedweil, who has shown
himself TO be a wizard with horses
during the meeting. would bring about
an Improvement IN the disposition Of
the erratic son OF Hastings, and he
turned the trick in first class style,
winning with the horse and enabling
che old sUlker's former owner 10 recoup
some of The losses that he had sus-
Lained on the horse in previous starts.
The closing race developed such pc
culiar betting angles that three horse
went TO the post jOint favorites at II
20 b. Bon HOmme won from Prince Gal
sfter a hard drive. but Jim Ganney,
-he remaining choice, was never in the
hunt.
BeIrnere the lukewarm favorite of
Charlie Bowman, his owner. Jockey
sandy gave him q clever ride and he
won by e neck IN a strenuous drive
with BrancGs, a supplied good thing
from Arcadia The winner pulled up
lame.
The fuI brother TO the Futurity win
Uer. ormondale. ruled favOrtte IN the
year OLD race. but ran sluggishly as if
in need o. racing 10 At him. He had
worked well for the race. but failed 10
perform anywhere near his work. The
winner turned up in the neglected 40
10 3 shot Ki8ng from the Slower stable.
essayed TO recoup part Of his seasons s
losses. ran second at long odds, in
cicentally making good showing for
first cut