The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11

was scratched and sea Clin also re-
mained in the barn This left the field
with four starters. Bubbling Water
and Spellbound were the fancied en-
tries The mare had a slight call in
the ring. but Spellbound's price was
kept down. Z to being the best odds
obtainsble. Black Mate closed at 9 to
i. while to ! could be obtained
against Arasee.
Black Mate was given q dribbling
play principally because Garner had
the mount. The Orange Wales stable
entry had failed dismally in his last
start when he was beaten of by Roy
Junior and Servicence in the Crocker
selling stakes. Garner rode a clever
race on the winner. He lay behind the
early pace set by Spellbound and made
his move in the stretch. when the son
of First Mate came on and galloped
over the leaders Page probably made
TOO much early use of Spellbound, as
he raced the gelding out in front and
misused him in the early part. When
il came down TO the test in the stretch
Spellbound did not have anything left
TO stall off Black Mates challenge
Spellbound was not keyed Up. for a
bruising contest. The horse had been
eased up in his work with the view of
selling him at auction, but when the
price offered was not suitable to Own
er Pritchard he put the horse in train
ing again.
Bubbling Water appeared to he out
footed all the way and the heavy i'm
post Of 124 pounds and the tracks con-
dition probably affected her fchances
adversely. She seemed TO fall out of
it in the backstretch, then moved up
bit on the far turn, but the mare was
up against it and the best she could
do was to get the show from Arasee.
There was q good attendance at the
track Notwithstanding the miserable
weather The track was sloppy ana it
was just right for the birds that like
the mushy going. But one favorite
scored during the afternoon, while an
other odds on choice fell by the way
side. However, il was the only top
heavy favorite Of the afternoon.
After being decisively beaten the last
time out the dopesters figured that
Metropolitan had trained off and that
he was going back. Hence S to 1 was
laid against Gains sprinter. John II.
Sheehan, which has been knocking al
the door on several occasions, was
counted upon TO do the trick but he
was up against il. as Gains sprinteT
showed superior speed and won by half
a length without urging Sheehan ran
right UP to his last race, but was not
equal TO the task of beating the win
ner. Thistle Belle finished fast and ran
her race.
The final event Of the day saw an
other favorite go down TO defeat in
Big Stick He stuck out in the dope
and to was the best price obtainable
against the Orange Vale stables en-
try at post time. The winner turned
up in Great Jubilee. which made his
second appearance at the meet He
was meant, for a plunge sent the win
ner's price down from SIS TO to al
post time. There were no mistakes
made. for Shilling took Houseman's
entry to the front early and maintained
the lead throughout. Big Stick threat
ened the winner a hundred yards from
the wire. but Shilling shook his mount
up and he responded gamely, beating
Big Stick head and plainly demon
strating that he was best. NovgoroC
ran a good race and took third honors
Joe Tigne unloaded the bank roll or
Biacksheep and he was never worried
at any time about the outcome, as the
geloing just splattered the mud al
the way, increasing his lead as the
race progressed. At the finish he was
nine slengths IN front of Prosper, which