Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-10
MURDERS ANNEX
RACING HONORS
RAIN SP0ILS GREAT RACING
PROSPECTS
WITHDRAWAL OF FAST HORSES
ARE NUMEROUS
Miss Sain Has Romp in Winning Rich
GIendora Handicap at Mile, While
Chapultepec GalIops Away
with EI Moline
BY Jay DAVIDSON


Rain spoiled the best prospects for
good days sport this season at Santa
Anita yesterday afternoon, keeping the
attendance down materially and fore
ing the withdrawal Of many horses that
seemed to be contenders on fast
track in the various events. Despite
the rain, however, there were about
1000 persons at the track and the horses
ran well up to their mud form. Two
events that were arranged as rival
features of the exceptionally attractive
card, the Glendora stakes. worth $267O
gross, and the FL Molio handicap, worth
$500 gross, were nearly ruined by with
drawals seven of the ten starters
named in the overnights for the Ell
Moline handicap and nine of the thir-
teen starters originally named for the
Glendora, refusing the issue in mud.
Three added starters, Centre Shot,
Hasty Agnes and Meelick, were sent
to the post to contend for the rich Glen
dora stakes, but only Meelick got any
thing, the Hildreth horse showing be-
hind Miss Sain, the winner, and Mag
azine, which placed. Magazine was
highly favored by the talent owing to
his well known undermining qualities.
and was plunged on. He broke away
from the barrier flying and set ter
rife pace for half mile, when Miss
Sain began to close on him, and just
before making the stretch turn Miss
Sain caught and passed him, and from
that point to the wire it was a mere
romp, the st. James stable candidate
breezing to the wire under double
wraps by a margin of half dozen
lengths. Magazine stuck to the job
E,rf Of ia cf enough
to worry Miss Sain through the stretch,
ALTHOUGH placing ahead of Meelick.
The time for the mile, 1888 4-5, is re-
markedly fast, considering the sloppy
going.
1t appeared for a time as if the Glen
dora would be ruined by withdrawals
when Jack Atkin, Chapultepec, Vox
Populi, Orbicular, Dominus Aroi,
Glorio, Green Seal, Prince Ahmed and
John Carroll were taken out, but the
three added starters made up fair
sized field and narrowed the contention
down to those that really preferred to
run in the sloppy going. On the race
run by Chapultepec in the FL Molino
handicap it looks like Herman Brandt
had made a mistake in not sending his
crack after the richer prize.
Chapultepec carried two more pounds
in the FL Molino than was allotted him
in the Glendora and broke away from
the barrier like a shot, winning all the
way in the commoneSt sort of a romp.
Joe Madden tried to keep up, but he
had his troubles in the early stages in
staying in second place, as j. E. Dono-
hue making his first start in months,
made a brief bid on the back stretch
and got up on even terms with Joe. In
the run to the wire, however, Joe easily
proved best and easily annexed the
place honors. The six and a half fur
longs were reeled off in 1:21, Chapulte-
pee merely romping several lengths out
in front.
Mary F. found the sloppy going most
agreeable and had no difficulty in an
nexing the honors in the first race,
beating Grande Dame and Catherine
T with ease. Her early speed enabled
her to go to the front and pick her
own going, and she availed herself
Of the privilege.
Carroll, the best 2-year-old shown at
the meeting, did a buck-and-wing all
the way from barrier to wire and in
creased his valuation materially by
showing that he can run in mud just
as well as he can run on a pasteboard
track. San Damius, placed at long
odds, and Abihu, another outsider,
showed.
Oberon, the good thing from Texas,
was much the best Of his field in the
nlne-Iurlong journey Jnat was nfth on
the card, and his early speed enabled
him to go to the front and romp to the
wire. The result might have been diff
ferent had Beauclere not been handi-
capped by both stirrups breaking and
almost unseating Jockey Sumter. He
made a great bid for first money, but
Sumter could not help him much, as
he was kept busy trying to stay in the
saddle. At that Beauclere showed be-
hind Varieties
Reformation justified form by win
ming the last race of the day from
Jane Laurel and Woolwinder The lat
ter was held at false price and car
ried a few tons of public money
straight and place, and there was much
joy in the wise ranks when he placed
ahead of Jane Laurel