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HISTORY OF THE THANKSGIVING HANDICAP. The Thanksgiving Handicap at Oakland has its sixth running today. The similarly named stake to be run at New Orleans today is a new stake. At Ascot Park tbe Jonathan Club Handicap lias been run but once previous today. Good horses have always figured in the Oakland event, that high-class one Claude having won it twice in succession, each time preventing Fossil from being returned the winner. A three-year-old won it in each of its first three years of running. Its record is as follows: Year. First. Age. Jockeys. Wt. Second. Age. wt. Third. Age. Wt. Val. Time 1!K1 Flving Torpedo .1 .Birkenruth. . 97 Greytield 5 los Janice 3 lir $ 1,925 1-5S 1902 Sombrero 3 Donnelly. .122 Autolight 4 llli Corrigan 3 ...115 2,020 1-551 1!0:; Claude 3 J. Ialy..llf, Fossil 3 104 Grail 4. !. 2,430 1-5S IM Claude 4 Domlnick..l Fossil 4 in fiold" Maney 4. 110 2,170 i-su 1905 Lubin 5 Kadtke.. 99 Proper 5 124 Ilearea tcher 4 121 2,270 l-5l
