Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-03
GLORIO WINS
SUNNY SLOPE
CONSISTENT SPRlNTER TAKES
HANDICAP
BEATS MEELICK, GEMMELL AND
PRINCE AHMED
John Carroll Annexes Secondary Fea-
ture Event at Mile in Easy GaIIop.
Virge Case Is First in Juve-
nile Scramble
By JAY D.VIDSON

Horses of good class won the princi-
pal events yesterday at Santa Anita,
and the Saturday crowds profited by
the succession of triumphs of favorites.
Form generally was observed, and there
was nothing in the results that could
justify criticism. Owing to the fact that
New Years day came on Friday, and
the weekly stake event was run that
DAY, only handicapS of the overnight
variety were carded as feature events,
yet horses of good class were drawn out
OF the barns to contest for the financial
prizes.
The feature of the afternoon was the
Sunny Slope handicap, which was won
Dy Glorlo. The withdrawal of King
James and Pinkola made the event
more open and harder to guess. Six
good ones went to the post, however.
and good race resulted. GIorio, which
has been in the habit of beating good
ones when placed right made one of
his rafting finishes and copied the coin
from Meelick and Gemmell The intel
ngent maZuma was spread on Prince
Ahmer, but the fortunes of racing were
with GloriO and against the Alvey can
dldate so GloriO won and Prince failed
TO show. 1t was fOrmfully run race,
u, the
fast time indicates that the best horse
won. Prince Ahmed might have done
better had the getaway from the bar
rler been more even. Meelick beat the
barrier and got away running. while
Prince was fatfOoted and was slow get
ting on his stride. Glorio was aWav
nicely and was BEAUTIFULLY ridden. being
reserved out Of the early pace, and
came on to win from Meelick, which
tired under the discouraging job of set
ting pace for such a speedy and classy
field.
John Carroll in Form
John Carroll, classy handicap horse
when right, had a mere romping exer-
else gallop in the third race at one mile,
and Won by several lengths. He could
have won by twenty lenths had his rider
so desired, as he finished under double
wraps and galloping to the wire. Har-
court set the pace and looked like he
might win at the stretch turn but could
not stock. Schilling booted him into the
place, but he was firing so fast that
skye would have beaten him out at a
slightly longer route. 1t was a one
horse race, while only three horses fig
ured to have any chance at the three
money splits, all running where they
figured.
Valley Stream won the first race. lust
as everybody expected. Owner Young
made no secret of the fact that his fIIy
was cherry ripe and would win, and the
bookies refused to lay better than a
prohibitive price against her chances.
She went out and won in a manner that
proved that she outclassed her field.
J. f. Crowley, the hot good thing at a
previous start, was overlooked and
placed at long odds. Bliss Carman
int ho ~Loo
Of the three-star special, French Cook.
which was making his first local start
and was played off the boards to show.
Light Comedy and Fielder failed to get
in the money and caused a lot of mourn
ing among the wise ones, as we'll as the
pikerS.
Baby Scramble Exciting
The baby scramble was more exciting
than the first race of the year for this
punch, as the youngsters were more
evenly matched for speed. Herman
Brandt showed a speedy trick in Virgie
Case, which Schilling rode, and she
won in hard drive with Helma S. and
Oswald B. This makes a clean record
for Schilling aboard the juvenile win
ners. He has won both baby races run
this year. There was no form to the
race, and only rumors of sensational
workouts guided the bettors in a hit-or-
miss guess
Red Walker put over his daily good
thing when Harry Scott won the fifth
race, but the pikers and pIungers
seemed to know the secret in advance
and went to this one with the bankroll.
1t was most popular victory, although
a few of the big bettors went to Vesme
hook, line and sinker. Vesme ran the
best race of any horse in the scramble
hnI = \
den properly. Matte Bumppo showed.
Enfield, with chunks of weight off his
previous good performances not only
figured, but justified the figures by
winning easily from Jane Swift and
Lord Nelson. The latter was consid-
cred already in, but could not get up
to catch the other two, and had to take
the show money. This was an excep-
tiOnally hard race for the talent to fig
ure, owing to the great speed and
known form of the horses, all figuring
TO be right there at the wire Yet form
triumphed and the best horse won.