. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXX. No, 313 BUSH STBEET. 147824 SAN FEANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLABS A YEAR OAKLAND RACES. Concluding Days of a Very Successful Meet- ineâSeveral Surprises for the Talent. TWENTY-FOURTH DAYâWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23. There was some very fair racing this afternoon in therain} and favorites didn't cut much of a figure as race-winners at the end of the footing up, One did manage to get home in front out ofjtbe six trials, but that's all. P. F., a good- looking two-year-old by Longfield, won the first in easy style' and he was as g
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXX. No, 313 BUSH STBEET. 147824 SAN FEANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLABS A YEAR OAKLAND RACES. Concluding Days of a Very Successful Meet- ineâSeveral Surprises for the Talent. TWENTY-FOURTH DAYâWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23. There was some very fair racing this afternoon in therain} and favorites didn't cut much of a figure as race-winners at the end of the footing up, One did manage to get home in front out ofjtbe six trials, but that's all. P. F., a good- looking two-year-old by Longfield, won the first in easy style' and he was as good as 10 to 1 in the betting ; 40 fo 1 shot America was second and favorite Mt. Roy '; Sly> second choice at 4 to 1, won the secohd and had a lot in re- serve at the finish. Etta H. was second and the first choic°, Key del Tierra, a poor sort of third. Judge Denny, second choice, won the mile and a sixteenth event by three lengths from 15 to 1 shot Earl Cochran, Lobengula beat the odds-on favorite, Alvarado, in the fourth, Three Forks was a handy winner of the mile and a quarter hurdle, while old Yemen who is a very warm article just now, annexed the last, a five- furlong dash, in fast time, after Quicksilver had led into the homestretch by a block. The first was a five-furlong race, with twelve horses in it. Perhaps showed in front momentarily, but was soon passed by America, who led past the half by a length, Pastime and F. following. At the three quarter pole it was America first by one and one-half lengths, Mt. Roy second, a couple of lengths before P. F. America held her lead up to within a furlong'of home, P. F. being second, running easily. The latter soon said "ta-ta" to America, and won easily by a length, America the whip, a length before Mt. Roy, who was coming Btrong. Perhaps was fourth. Time, "l:02i. & F. was at 8 to 1, America 40, Mt. Roy 6 to 5, Iron Jacket 4, Abalanzar 5 (backed from 10), others 15 to 50.
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