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AN OFF DAY IN OAKLAND RACING. Inferior Class Horses Hold Sway and Results Are Mainly Unexpected. Oakland, Cal., December 5. Upsets were frequent and- the racing below par at Oakland today. The uncertain track conditions and the mediocre class of horses engaged in which those of the selling plater variety predominated, were the chief contributing factors to this state of affairs. Only one favorite made good, and that the long overdue Nabonassar, in the first of the two mile and a sixteenth selling races, with Walter Miller up, ami, with a winning advantage at the start lie spreadeagled his opionents. C. Miller, who rode Mendon, the second choice, dropped quickly out of the early running and trailed for five furlongs, then moved up with a rush into a distant fourth at the end and was promptly suspended for an indefinite period by the stewards. Mendon is a horse of hopelessly mediocre form, which has not won a race in the last three years. Experts of form figured him a 20 to 1 shot before the race. His showing today was about the best of his recent career. C. E. Durnell and the eastern contingent backed Belle of Iroquois in the second race. E. Dugan beat the barrier with her, but failed to deliver tile goods, a close second to Salvage bekig the best he could do. "Boots" lost his good filly by the claiming route, II. L. Jones getting her for . Wing Ting, well supported in the betting, beat the barrier and woif the last race all the way. Coino, the prohibitive favorite and sole outstanding seeming winner, got away last and proved unequal to the herculean task. .Miller punished Como unnecessarily in his effort to cut down the winners great advantage at the start. The race-going public generally deplore the departure of the promising jockey, Guy Burns, who has made a decidedly favorable impression here. He and trainer James Blute left for Los Angeles last night. A. F. Elliott, joint owner with P. J. Marron in the good throe-year-old Oceau Shore, has brought suit against the latter for a dissolution of partnership, the sale of the colt and a division of the proceeds. A yearling filly in Hilrirctlts string dislocated her shoulder while at exercise on the track thin morning and may have to be destroyed. J. Touhey and Roy Offutt will leave for Arcadia with their horses as quickly as horse cars are available. E. Peters, trainer for I. M. Kelly and R. A. Rainey, left this morning for the southern track with the racers in his charge.
