Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-06
AHMED
TAKES FEATURE
BEATS RIALT0 AND OTHER
CRACK SPRINTERS
ED BALL SURPRISES TALENT BY
WINNING SPRINT
Ida May Leads Adriuche and Fair
Field All the Way rom Barrier
to Wire In Mile Journey In
Slow limo
By JAY DAVIDSON


Fair platers furnished the sport at
Santa Anita yesterday afternoon in all
except the fourth race. the feature
event, which brought out some of the
best sprinters at the track Prince
Ahmed. one of the best horses in the
Ed Alvey string, has little difficulty In
winning this event. as he was POUNDS
the best and easily passed those In
front of him when set down in the
stretch As was expected, Green seal
and Lady Irma went to the 'front.' at
the start and ran each other sick be-
| fore reaching the stretch turn. Then
both were ready to drop dead and they
quit to nothing, neither getting into
the first-three division. Prince Ahmed
took his time in going to the front,
delaying that duty until after turning
| for home, when he was as fresh as q
daisy and possessed of all the neces-
sary speed to go on about his business
and win.
Rialto the only other horse in the
race that had any chance to beat
Prince Ahmed, after Lady 1rma and
| Green Seal quit, ran consistent race,
but never was able to get up with
Prince, although MCGEE gave him a
fogging from the stretch turn TO the
wire. He got the place, and Tony
Bonero, finishing with his usual rush,
showed 1t was truly run race ana
the talent formed long lines behind
the books afterwards.
Some little surprise was occasioned
when Ida May beat Adriuche In the
| mile race that was third on the card.
Ida was in lightly and had shown IN
| her recent races that she is ready to
make any of them run, but the dope
sters figured Adriuche a sure thing,
| he dtcfo
all the way The mile was done in fair
time, 1888 2-5, considering the condition
of the track at this time. Round and
Round showed, but never was able TO
get more than close to Adriuche,
which placed.
| Miss Ida never found a softer spot
| in all her career than that into which
she was dropped yesterday in the last
race Accustomed to running with
horses of some class, she was like n
diamond in a tray of junk with the
beetles opposed to her. and she showed
them up by winning in hollow style.
The books took great liberties with
her chances. and again the talent
cleaned up. Needful, held at juicy odds.
was second and Aucassin showed.
Uncle Walter was a long shot in the
opening event, when he figured like a
to shot and won by coming from
behind to beat out Good Fellow in q
rather tight fit at the wire. Good
Fellow showed a world of speed, but
quit fast in the final eighth, and I'm
Gle Walter, under the most vigorous
urging that Butwell was capable II
putting up, slowly cut down the big
lead and passed the good thing at the
wire. Butwell probably never rode bet
ter or more effectively than in this
instance. He began f1ogging Uncle
Walter at the stretch turn and raw
hided him numerically until the Chinn
candidate had to run. Stendal, real
good thing that was played across the
board by a lot of wise ones, got the
show money.
Pop Willard put over another one of
his periodicals in the second race.
when Ed Ball copied the capital prize
from Daruma. In a driving finish But
we'll got the brackets for Ed Ball by
a nose. Senator Barrett showed. Bell
smoker was plunged on heavily by n
lot of wise guys, and then failed to
show anything to encourage his back
ers. Bitter Sir again led into the
stretch and then allowed eight others
to pass him on the way home. He is
getting to be worse than Smithy Kane
ever dared be.