The San Francisco call., 1909-03-11
LONG SHOTS HOLD
HIGH CARNIVAL AT
EMERYVILLE
Barney Schreiber's Dargin ar
so TO VanquiShes F0rmid-
able Field With Ease
By J. e. Jefery

Ions shots held high carnival at
I1meryville yesterday, as they fre-
Qucntly have OF late. Rather Royal a
favorite Of the doubtful variety, was
the only break IN the list Of winners
AT liberal odds, Barney Schreiber's
Dargin, with as good as so 70 l against
HIM. climaxed a very unsatisfactory
afternoons sport by vanquishing for
lnidable opposition with ease. IN
fashionable riders were decidedly in
evidence, Kirschbsum, Holmes, Rettig,
ROSS. Borel and Hogg accounting 1or
The card.
The sore spots that the decision Of
The program left were produced by
the wretched showing made by Trois
Temp and Stanley Fay. fsvorites OF
the third and fourth races. both OF
which looked on paper TO be real good
things. Trois Temp is owned by Tim
othy .. Sullivan and is trained by
Archie Zimmer. Il viii be recalled
THAI not long ago Trois Temp made
just such a showing while running as
"A odds on favorite as he did yester-
day. lie had none OF the brilliant
speed yesterday that had marked his
previous essays and ran far back in
Tie ruck from start to finish. Workbox.
whose failure TO finish in the money
while running as the favOrite OF the
race in which the killing made on
Blagg stirred UP something Of a scan
oa-s showed a return OF his good form
and won. the race in a terrific drive
with the heavily backed and consistent
Little Slss- The erratic Bright Skies
ran third at remuneratiye odds
Judge Hopper announced that the
a7.zTr
10 run up to expectations would be
officially prObed into today. Stanley
ray was coupled with Orcagna at
even money in the Morris handicap,
which Samuel Emerys Arasee won
easily after having led virtually from
tart to finish. Arasee receded in the
betting in the Emeryville ring, but
y IS reported that he was well backed
IN eastern pOOlrOOms- Orcagna came
from Tar back TO beat the we'll played
FIRST Peep for the place. but Stanley
Fay. the main reliance OF the Walker
enlfg. was seemingly unable 10 raise
EallOp and was never prominent. He
had up the stiff impOst OF l2O pounds.
out seemed able on form to concede
the weight 10 the sort Of opposition
ne was meeting. Absolutely deficient
Ia speed, he was unable to keep out
oI pockets and was at no time a dan
gerous factor.
H 6. Bedwelrs Firebau finished out
or the money as favOrite of the clos
ing race, but he had a good excuse
~ ileu the barrier went up he stumbled
and Starter Dwyer reported that he
never saw horse come so close TO
1alAng and yet keep his feet as in
4 lreballs case. The result was that
ne was hopelessly eliminated from the
running Jockey Taplin persevered
with him, however, and he made IN
considerable ground on his field. Cloud
-ight looked the winner at the paddocl1
but Dargin galloped by her in the finai
strides 10 an easily achieved victory.
SeWel. possibly the season s. greatest
disappointment, finished absolutely last.
after having been plunged on as IN SO
many or his previous starts. He had
speed enough TO keep close TO Burning
Bush's pace TO the stretch turn, and
then quit 10 q walk
The long price laid against the con-
sistent Woolen, winner OF the fifth.
was probably due to Borers presence
IN the saddle. She was lucky enough
10 get through along the rail at the
stretch turn and had no trouble in
taking the measure Of Import. which
had supplanted Keep Moving as the
IaForte- Import is seemingly far from
beng the horse that he was here last
season when he was winning ha1di-
caps He had no excuses yesterday
Joe Rose and Fantastic proved disap-
pelntnlents in this race. Both were
wen played, and quit after showing en-
couraglng early speed.
Fred Cooks Harry Grothe was made
laNorlte IN the year old race in con-
sequence Of an lndustriOusly circulated
paddock tip, but showed nothing to
warrant the support lavished upon him.