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FAVORITES RULE THE DAY. FOUR OUT OF SIX REWARD THEIR SUPPORTERS AT OAKLAND. Ed Bali Wins Cantering and Is Bid Up The Mist Defeats Fireball Some Close Finishes. Oakland, Cal., November 12. Aside from its value as a racing attraction, todays card with its six outstanding favorites was particularly alluring to all classes of race-goers, and a marked increase of patronage resulted. There must have been fully S.OOO visitors on hand when the bugle called the horses to the post In the first race. Four of the six races were captured by favorites. Money Muss at 1 to 5 was the longest-priced one of the quartette. Very short odds were laid against the others. Pajaroita, 7 to 10, Ed Ball, r to 4, and Acrobat, 7 to 20, being samples of the closing betting. Sandwiched in between wine Tavora and The Mist with a victory eacii at 0 to 1 and 14 to 5 respectively. The smallest field of the afternoon The Mist, Fireball, Blondy and Cloudlight contested the only important feature, the Santa Rosa Handicap at six furlongs. The negro rider, A. Williams, bungled his work on Fireball and allowed the heavily backed second choice. The Mist, to slip through on the inside of .the favorite and beat him out in the very last stride. Carmans Elizabeth F. was so palpably inferior to the horses that led her home iu the third race that everybody wondered why the ring had made her favorite. Jockey Herman Radtke made his reappearance on the local track on Manchester in the second race after an absence of two years and was cheerfully received. The feature of the racing was Roaltas performance at a mile in the closing race. The Altamax three-year-old has not raced since he won a cheap maiden race at Saratoga last August and it required Acrobats best efforts to heat him a nose in 1:39J after the former had made all the running. As high as 40 to 1 could be had about Thomas II. Williams promising colt. Ed Ball was bid up after his win in the fifth race from to ,300 by James Neil. Mr. Rennet retained his horse with the customary advance. The odds against Ed Ball were practically prohibitive and the owners net loss after winning todays race amounted to 75 exclusive of jockey fees. S. C. Hildreth is making preparations to ship twenty horses, principally coming two-year-olds, to Arcadia, where they will be raced in charge of John Lowe. More ill-luck pursues this stable. The owner is now very much concerned over Montgomerys condition. A plate slipped during the running of the Opening Handicap and the injury to his left forefoot may result in his being thrown out or training for a while.
