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JOCKEY HUNTER PULLS ETHEL DAY. Oakland Judges Quickly Put Him Under the Ban — All Favorites Are Defeated. Oakland, CaL, May 7. — Five thousand pairs of bulging eyes saw Jockey Johnstone Hunter pull the crack grey mare, Ethel Day. in the closing race this afternoon. The big throng of racegoers lingered as it" in anticipation of the speedy judicial action that followed. The indefinite suspension of Sir Caffertys hitherto immune negro rider was announced before the spectators had time to cool off. All the favorites were beaten today. Not one of them succeeded ill getting any share of the purses and when this disastrous series ,,f upsets culminated in the astounding downfall of the outstanding od.ls on public choice, Ethel Day. feeling became tense, limners former eniplo.xor. William Red Walker, remarked before Mar lag for the east that he had ceased to bet on his stable jockey long before he had traded him oft for Lycurgus. Racegoer! and the press ha?e finally awakened lo the fact that the disgraced jockey probaoly pulled Bedford in the nee that Santara won in MKh runaway fashion last Saturday. Jockey I . i:i ho in was suspended for three d.ns for disobedience at the post yesterday. T. F. Buck ley aaa purchased Fa ir street from James Neil. I.clalie 1.. is now the property of l.eorge P. lc Neil. A really u I pragma is announced for tomorrow and wit It such fast racers as Calla. Curriculum. Combiiry: Beiiiay. I awaseiitha. Huerfano: Royal Maxim. Taleatoaa, Seven Bells; Logistllla, Bedford, J. C. Clem: Koyal Rogue. I.ossiper II.. Baiipos.il; Btegg, St. Kiamis and Native Sou among those carded to stall, some high class racing should re ward attendance. 11. Fotsland.
