Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
ARASEE ROMPS
IN LONG RACE
DISPLAYS GOOD CLASS IN
HEAVY GOING
.ETHoN FINALLY ROUNDS TO
FORM AND WINS
Rey del Mundo, oVerIaid in the Ring,
Easily rAnnexes Third Scramble
from Ordinary Bunch-Home-
less Takes the Fifth
BY JAY DAVIDSON

Heavy going had little effect upon
form at Santa Anita yesterday the
Winers upholding the average Of win
ming favOrites in a marked degree, con
sidering the heavy going and the unre-
liable form that usuall& prevails in
these circumstances. No extraordinar-
lily long priced horses won and the
salient had another good day, while the
bookies cOrrespOndingly lost.
Arasee, which was shipped here from
Emeryville q few days ago, made his
first local start in the fourth race, at
nine furlongs, and merely breezed all
the way around the big oval, winning
under mild restraint by a margin o.
nearly three lengths. Red Gauntlet
showed improvement in the going and
was the contender, but could not worry
the winner at all and was not worried
in turn by Summer Cloud, which was
third, nine lengths back. Big Bow,
owned by President Tom Williams OF
the Pacific Jockey club, ran another
sour race and was last in the four
horse field.
EthOn, a handicap horse of good class,
was dropped in with q bunch of fair
selling platers in the first race and got
UP just in time to nose out Calves at
the wire in terrific finish. Joe Gaitens-
ran to his real form and showed, but
tired badly in the final eighth.
San Damius was the medium of a
light betting coup in the juvenile event
and never gave his hackers the slightest
worry, as he went to the front at the
start and breezed to the wire half a.
dozen lengths ahead Of Maternus. Mike
Molett showed good Improvement and
gave Maternus a hard rub for place
hOnors, but was beaten half length
in a hard drive.
Another instance of q long price be-
ing laid against a legitimate favorite
was furnished in the third race, when
Rey del Mundo was made a rank out
slider and penalized the bookies for
their lack of confidence in him by wiz
ming handily from Bye Bye II. Rey
del Mundo had shown in all his starts
this season that he could beat the
bunch opposed to him yesterday and
the wise ones profited handsomely by
the oversight of the price makers. Sink
Spring got away in front and seemed
to be winning easily until after turning
for home, when Rey del Mundo moved
up and in a mild drive through the
stretch he won, going away from Bye
Bye II, which ran over Sink Spring in
the last fifty yards.
Homeless won easily from Vanen in
the fifth, at a mile and quarter.
Homeless had not gone the distance
this season, but had been showing SUI
ficient form at shorter distances to jus
lily Tie OUuS Ol ldNOllIlSII lotlG against
MIN. He was carefully ridden and re-
served until in the final quarter, when
he was set down and easily pulled
away from his field. Vanen finished
stoutIy and placed ahead of the fast
closing Whidden. Knight Of Ivanhoe
found the route too extended and quit
in the stretch, after setting the pace.
Fielder was a hot good thing in the
sixth and had no difficulty in landing
the capital prize, although EvadOs set
the pace to the final sixteenth and
seemed to have the race we'll in hand
until she began to tire. She placed and
Voltrome showed.
Avontellus, a popular racer last win
ter, won his first start of the season
when he beat Wolfville, the pacemaker,
in the final jumps in the last race.
Ivanhoe managed to get the show
money, but was a disappointment in
finishing so far back.
The heavy rains made the going
heavy, and slow time was the rule in
all events. Despite the weather con-
ditions. a large crowd turned out and
the triumph of form sent everybody
home in good .humOr.