Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-10

| L1ORM players were rather up against
| III it yesterday when it came to fig
uring the results at Santa Anita
park, as the midsummer weather, clear
skies and pasteboard track that have
! been the rule almost without exception
since opening day gave little oppor-
| tunity for the mud runners to show
their web feet. Yet, Notwithstanding
| this handicap, the talent Jared nicely
and in no instance can it be said that
the best horse failed to win in the six
races run. The track was sloppy, but
it's remarkable cushion and the forma-
ton of the track operate to make it
| next to impossible for ordinary rains
to turn it into heavy going. For these
reasons the horses that are good on a
fast track and yet do not particularly
despise sloppy going over a hard un-
der surface had no trouble in running
to their real form and in good time.
Old Sol and Jupiter Pluv usually favor
stake days with fair weather and a
fast track, which made the general dis
appointment at weather conditions yes
terday unusually annoying and intoler-
able. 1t was so unusual and SO uneX-
pected.
Weather conditions yesterday spoiled
the best racing card that ever was
framed up for any winter track any
where and the unusually large number
of Withdrawals, especially of the classy
horses like Jack Atkin, Prince Armed.
VoX Populi, Orbicular, John Carroll,
Dominus Aroi, GlOrio and Gemmell de-
tracted materially from the sport and
it's enjoyment by the rainy day crowds.
With a fast track and clear skies a
new attendance record probably would
have resulted and one or two world
records might have been smashed.
Barney Oldfield had all the boys jeal-
Gus yesterday when he showed win
ming tickets on five Of the six races.
These winning tickets were SO regular
| that Barney was regarded as a sort of
wizard at handicapping the mudhens,
and while his companions were contrib
uting to the support of the bookies,
Barney was buying condolences for his
COMPANIONS at the refreshment stands.
One result of the rain that did not
displease the racing association Off
Gals and the public was the effect it
had in bringing up the barley in the
! infield. The barley was long past due,
but it came forth yesterday in hurry.
and the barren waste that once was an
eyesore in the inf1eld now is a nice,
green relief for the eyes, and the
| beauty of the racing plant has been
enhanced in a most material degree.
yesterday was the regular SeIIll-
weekly cutin day, and the big ring was
increased by the addition of three
books, none going off duty, making the
lineup stand at twenty-r1ine big stores,
three field books and one combination
affair. Al Fontelieu of New Orleans.
I"Councillor' Lichtenstein and F. T.
| Gay were the new faces in line.
AL Fontelieu, the spectacular New
| Orleans plunger, has joined the big
store ranks, and his methods of book
ing will make his competitors sit up
| and take notice. Like Tom Shaw, he
| has his own ideas regarding form and
makes his own prices. He also will
| take plunge wagers without f1inching
/ This is his first season at Santa Anita
| John Humbrecht did an original stunt
yesterday in laying even money to show
on a three-horse field. However, he
got no takers of the seemingly tempt
| ing bait, as he insisted that those who
| wanted even money to show on j. f..
Donohue bet equal sums straight and
place. This would mean a net profit
of 81 on a SO wager across the board,
as he would take in SO and give back
only 81. Then he laughed at the boys
| who almost rioted in front of his book
for the even money that they did not
i want.
| Beauclere is fast developing into a
hard luck horse. Two or three times
his stable connections have played him