Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-20
ONE SOLITARY
FAVORITE WINS
SANTA ANITA TALENT HAS ITS
OFF DAY
ROCKSTONE is ONLY POPULAR
CHOICE TO WIN
Spectators Play lunches and Schil-
ling and Lose, While Sharpshooters
Have Field Day in Guess
ing Contests
Rn lay DAVIDSON

Just an ordinary bunch of horses
performed yesterday at Santa Anita,
and while they did some fast time at
the various distances the fact that
selling platers furnished the fun mace
the card less attractive than other
wise would have been the case. Being
the day preceding the one big day of
the week. Saturday, the horses of class
STAYED in the barns Favorites, Of
course, Jared poorly in such cheap
races as those which We're arranged.
but the winners in nearly every in
stance were well played and the books
laid up little or nothing on the day s
operations. They do not seem able to
get right
The shower of long shotssopened with
the first race, when Karodo beat out
Translucent by a head through sheer
good riding by Sehilling. KarodO broke
in front almost Immediately after the
ribbon sounded and soon opened d
Smithy Kane lead, entering the
stretch half a dozen lengths in front
of Translucent. In the run to the wire
Translucent, which was away almost
last and had a big lead to overcome,
almost caught Karodo and would have
won in another jump, but was beaten
a head. With a real jockey up Trans
lucent should have been 1 to 10 in this
field. Vivant ran poor race and quit
to fourth at the wire, being beat out
by Herman Doyle, hitherto unknown,
for the show money.
Just because Schilling had the mount
on Mike Molett in the Juvenile event
the regulars played that one to the
exclusion of all form on the race. While
Schilling is good enough in a baby
race to- make a $500 babe beat one
worth $1,000 or more, he was not goo1
enough to make the Texas youngster
beat c. H. Patten, which figured best
on real form, and the Spiers baby
racer simply romped and toyed with
his field. Mike ran second and Lillium
was third
Lady Kitty had shown sufficient
form in previous outs in the same class
and over the same distance to entit!e
her to more consideration than was ac-
corded yer yesterday, but she was held
as a rank outsider and through a cork
ing good ride by Powers got up in
time to nose out Mike Jordan for the
capital prize. Mike was poorly ridden
and showed that he was pounds the
best of his field, but he was held back
too long. When turned loose in the
stretch he finished like a house afire
and would have won with a good fin
isher in the saddle, but had to be con-
tent with the place. Ben Sand hoped
into the early lead and gave the back
ers of other horses a big scare by open
ing up a wide gap, which he main
tained clear into the stretch, but he
quit like dog-whiCh he is not-and
was lucky to be third
Rockstone had another easy time of
it when he won the fourth race from
Grande Dame and Capt. Kennedy. On
his Frisco form Capt. Kennedy looked
like dangerous proposition and was
heavily played, but he was beaten to
a FRAGILE and had no excuses. He got
away in front, and if he had been worth
ten cents he would have stayed there.
But he curled up like another mid
night prOwler in the last eighth. and
if Carthage had been endowed with any
ambitions Captain would not have been
third, as he was running the other way
at the finish.
Round and Round. with Mulligan up,
+ was the joke of the ring during the
moments set aside for speculation. but
when the race was on Round and
Round made the joke read backward.
A few cold-blooded sports got aboard
at juicy price and were delighted
when the son of Sandringham set out
in second place, with Merlingo leading.
On the back stretch, when Merlingo
began to tire, Round and Round mere
ly kept on about his business and
easily ran over the Clopton candidate,
winning under wraps by six lengths.
Miss Off1cious, also lightly weighted,
finished strongly and placed ahead of
Vanen, while Harry Scott was fourth
and Merlingo was fifth.
Garland won the sixth race like a
good filly, turning the trick with great
est ease and fully justifying the con-
fidence Of those who had been waiting
for her to drop into a soft spot. She
is a remarkably fast filly and was
ready, while the company was un-
usually lacking in class. Bell of Brass
ran kindly and placed, while Nebraska
Lass showed.
The last race caused every "wise"
Spectator to bump his head in good
fashion. Bud Embry had been run
ming prominently with better horses
until yesterday, an was slipped into
this race without the aid of a brass
band. The bookies fell for him and
offered long prices against his chances
when actual figures indicated him as a
good thing. The wise ones got aboard
and the ring was scorched to a done
brown. Charley Heeney was made ia
vorite, not on anything he ever had
done, but because Schilling was up. He
finished nowhere. Lucie Marie placed
and Liberto showed, all at long prices.