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MEELICKS GRAND DISPLAY OF SPEED. Left at the Post He Almost Gets Up to Win the Oakland Handicap. Oakland. Cal.. November 1C. Three extreme outsiders, .olinnv Lyons, 15 to 1, True Wing, 30 to 1, and Earlv Tide, IS to 1, filled the desirable positions at the finish of todays valuable stake fixture, the Oakland Handicap, at six and one-half furlongs. The high-priced Meelick, a heavily backed favorite, was held at the post and virtually left. In justice to .Mr. Buyers assistant, however, the colt immediately developed symptoms of unruliness at the post, and it became quickly apparent to close observers that lie was too big a handful for Merritt Buxton, bis diminutive jockey, and that he would be extreinelv lucky to get away at all. As a matter or fact, the bungling interference of the whipper-in contributed chleilv to Mcelicks defeat. He was in-judicioiislv sent along and tralkd nearly a sixteenth of a mile in the rear until beginning the far turn where he began to overhaul the others with such ;.mazing swiftness that at the end the proverbial blanket could have covered the first four. Many spectators thought that the Hildreth representative had just gotten up for third place in the very last stride. It was a marvelous performance, and emphasized the amazing ill-luck and aggravated the disappointment of his thousands of backers. More real money was in evidence for S. C. Hildreths horse in this race than for any other starter at this meeting. The stunned spectators greeted the re-.sult in absolute silence. A race of secondary importance, the Cloverdale Handicap, at a mile, wound up a day of high-class racing and not one person in a thousand could have lold rr hand which the three placed horses were. Three favorites had scored before the running of the stake and it seemed as if everybody had unloaded both their winnings and capital on the favorite in that race. Some very fast milers were engaged in this race, which developed into a spectacular race, run in fast time. Janeta. the live-year-old mare by Bob Miles Laurel, gained a bead victory over the vastly improved San Alviso. Veil, the favorite, almost backed oil" the boards by the crowd in their anxiety to recoup their losses on Hildreths other representative, finished a beaten-off last. The best card of the present meeting attracted the biggest crowd to the track. There was a break in the long spell of good weather as the afternoon won? on. Rain commenced falling just after the last race. J. Carroll, the jockey who fell with Mitre in the third race, was seriously injured and was hurriedly removed to the hospital.
