Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-16
FAvORITES GET
MOST OF CHANGE.
FOUR PUBLIC CHOICES FIRST
TO WIRE
TWO SECOND CHOICES EARN SET
OF BRACKETS
King of the Mist Is Only Outsider to
Score and He Turns Most
Startling Form Reversal
of Season
ny JAY DAVIDSON

Selling platers. good, bad and indif-
ferent in point OF class, furnished the
excitement at Santa Anita yesterday
afternoon, and form again was justified
In four winning favorites and two Sec
ond choices in the seven races. Only
one rank outsider got first money in
any event, King of the Mist coming to
life with startling suddenness and beat
ing a field of long distance racers that
nobody ever had dreamed was possible
for him to- do. Instead of quitting yes
terday he came on and won going
away, after racing Capt. Burnett dizzy.
This is SO unnatural for King of the
Mist that the racegoers could not re-
strain gasp when King went into the
final sixteenth a cinch winner. For
him to exhibit such rare gameness in
a speed duel out in front with a speedy
pacemaker never was to be thought of
until he turned the trick. Oberon
finished second, but took time during
the journey to give nearly all the other
horses swift kick or two and the
judges disqualified him and set him
back last, placing st. Ilario second and
Captain Burnett third.
Critic won the real feature event,
seven furlong sprint, and was literally
played by the general public, despite
the heavy plunge on Dennis Stafford.
Dennis moved up slowly until he was
second at the back stretch turn, a
head in front of Critic, but he disliked
the pace and began to drop back when
Critic moved up with him. Rey del
Mundo set the pace into the stretch,
but stopped as If shot Immediately
after turning for home. Then it was
easy for Critic to go on and win.
Cloyne, which was very popular with
the pikers, got the place, and Ethel
Day ran right where she figured, drop
ping into the third hole.
John A. and Ida May had a pretty
fight for the honors in the last race of
the day, both getting away winging
and almost on dead heat, while the
others were standing flatfooted. Ida,
with her great early speed, took the
lead by narrow margin and held IL
with great difficulty until turning into
the back stretch. when John A, aided
by great chunk of weight off, quickly
passed her and never was headed
thereafter, going under the wire nearly
two lengths in the lead. Montclair was
third, about ten lengths back of Ida
May.
Silvia Fir, another speed marvel in
the juvenile ranks, ran right up to her
works and won the baby race with
greatest ease from Lady Paret and
Marys Lamb. Silvia and Mary opened
equal choices, but the wise guys had
been keeping tab on Silvia In her morn
ing trials and did not wait for the sec
ond betting before they began to
plunge. Silvia had worked a half in
as 2-5 seconds and that was sufficient
information for them to play her off
the boards in a maiden race. She got
home nearly four lengths in front, while
Lady Paret only beat Marys Lamb a
nose in a hard drive.
Shapdale beat a fair field in the first
and did it with comparative ease. hav-
ing a margin of two lengths over Miss
Naomi and French Cook at the wire.
Belleek set the pace into the stretch
and quit, Likely Dieudonne doing the
same after following the sharp pace for
half a mile. Powers gave Shapdale an
easy ride until hitting the home trail,
when he went to work and pushed
Shapdale through the field in a hurry
up manner and landed him an easy
winner Miss Naomi showed marked
improvement in getting the place. with
standing a desperate drive with French
Nun in the final sixteenth.
Timothy Wen rounded to form and
gathered the grapes according to ex-
pectations in the fourth race, stepping
the five and half furlongs easily, but
in slow time. Kuropatkin was second
and Carasco was third. Paumonok was
plunged on again, as usual. but acted
so badly at the post that he was last
to get away and was overwhelmingly
slow in his movements afterward. He
never was better than last.
Jack Peter finally broke his maiden
when Chief Desmond won the sixth
race in spread eagle style, after long
term in the barns. Byron was second
and Soprano was third. This aggrega-
ton of hayburners and thoroughbred
hounds was so thoroughly lacking in
anything that smacked of class that
everybody had a good thing in the race.
1t was the worst bunch that ever faced
a barrier at e. race meeting of the
bushes.