. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XIX. No. 18. BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. L i, [HE BLOOD HORSE RACES, L Grand Opening Last Saturday From Every Point of View. iLMONT'S MAGNIFICENT VICTORIES. ilotto Wins One of the Fastest Two-Year- Old Races Ever Seen on the Pacific Coast. I, 'airy Correctly Placed First After Betas Fouled by Acclaim-Jockey Spence Slightly Injured—The Second Day's Bacing as Fine as the First— The Winners Bessie Almont, Sir Walter and Acclaim. J. TJPERB! MAGNIFICENT! were the expressions of those who wit-
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XIX. No. 18. BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. L i, [HE BLOOD HORSE RACES, L Grand Opening Last Saturday From Every Point of View. iLMONT'S MAGNIFICENT VICTORIES. ilotto Wins One of the Fastest Two-Year- Old Races Ever Seen on the Pacific Coast. I, 'airy Correctly Placed First After Betas Fouled by Acclaim-Jockey Spence Slightly Injured—The Second Day's Bacing as Fine as the First— The Winners Bessie Almont, Sir Walter and Acclaim. J. TJPERB! MAGNIFICENT! were the expressions of those who wit- nessed the opening day's races at Bay District traok. The out- look for interesting racing at the Blood Horse meeting was ex- cellent, but the most enthnsiastio tnrfman on the Coast never dreamed that he would see snoh •rand performances as he did see on last Saturday afternoon, rom every point of view. The finish in every race vas exciting in the extreme, the time made oreditable hroughout. The judges* deoisions in all the events met with T he approbation of every fair-minded man, and such an ex- libition of firmness and fairness on their part will do more 0 build up the noble sport to its proper level on this Coast nan any one thing we know of. Fairy, out down at the Jtate Fair this fall, had recovered her old form, and had she ,iot been pressed so close to the inside rails by Acclaim in the ast eighth of the mile would have gone the route in 1:41} or 'hereabouts in all probability. Acclaim finished first by a lead, as it was, in the exoellent time of 1:42. The Sir Modred illy, Motto, now the property of ex-Senator L. J. Rose, onoe >wn'ed by Colonel Harry I. Thornton, a very small miss of liwo years, won a three-quarter dash in remarkable time, 1:141, leading her nine competitors from "eend to ; Porter Ashe's black filly, Queen Alta, freBh from the EaBt, ;hrew down the torrid "good thing," Folly, winning by the ,;ipof her aristocratic nose,
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