. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEA* OAKLAND RACES. Close of a Very Successful Meeting—The Four- Mile Race "Won by Schiller Over a Very Heavy Track. FORTY-NINTH DAY—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Favorites and long shots devided honors and coin at the new track this afternoon in the deep mud. A crowd of 1,500 was on hand and saw big fields compete in the six events run off. Monitor, long due, won the first with G. Wilson up at odds of 10 to 1, and won impressively by three lengths. Sir William simply galloped in in the seco
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1897. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEA* OAKLAND RACES. Close of a Very Successful Meeting—The Four- Mile Race "Won by Schiller Over a Very Heavy Track. FORTY-NINTH DAY—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Favorites and long shots devided honors and coin at the new track this afternoon in the deep mud. A crowd of 1,500 was on hand and saw big fields compete in the six events run off. Monitor, long due, won the first with G. Wilson up at odds of 10 to 1, and won impressively by three lengths. Sir William simply galloped in in the second, allowing On Gua Nita to lead up to the final eighty yards, on sufferance. Moringa closed up a lot of ground in this. Frank Jaubert gave a first-class imitation of a horse making a field of gallopers look like a band of saffron-hued canines, after being one of the latter himself, to all appear- ances, for a long time past. Babe Murphy won the fourth, mile and a sixteenth, very cleverly from St. Aignon, after Chartreuse had run herself almost to death in front and be- come anchored in the heavy going close to the inner rails Pat Murphy took the fifth with great ease from Shield Bearer, Mainstay et al., and fvicardo, off in the lead in the last, was never headed. G. Wilson, J. Shields and Boze- man, not considered stars in the jockey firmament, were up on winners this aftemoob, while Freeman, Slaughter and H. Martin rode victorious thoroughbreds also. The first was at five and one half furlongs. Away to a good start, Bourbon went to the front, and closely attended by Iron Jacket, ran around to the homestretch, Pecksniff third. Bourbon quit as soon as they straightened away, and Iron Jacket was done for a sixteenth from home, Monitor winning off by four lengths, Play Boy second, half a length before Pecksniff, who beat Edgemount a head, Iron Jacket another head away. Time, 1:12. Monitor was at 10 to 1, Play Boy 8, Pecksniff 10, Edgemount 2£ (played from 6), Iron Jacket 5,
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