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i : GOOD RACING AT OAKLAND. RUBRIA GRANDA STAMPS HERSELF THE BESI TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY OUT. Plausible Runs a SuVprising Race — Pajaroita Defeats Smiley Corbett and Cloyne in Fast Time. Oakland, fal.. January 13. — Rubria Orainta. probably the gem of Thomas II. Williams extensive line of juveniles, appeared in the second race at Oakland today and made good in a manner that stamps her a two-year old of the most brilliant promise. No stable within recent years has publicly exhibited so many good youngsters as that presided over by Dr. H. F. Rowell and it is said that the best are yet to be shown. Walter Millers presence in the saddle on Rubria Cranda made her chances of winning1 «jSO alluring, that all the big plungers willingly accepted the odds quoted and backed her to the limit. The champion jockeys saddle work was the outstanding feature of the sport, his record for the afternoon being two firsts and three seconds. It was the hardest of racing luck only that deprived him of a win instead of a second on Banposal in the fourth. May Amelia and Plausible were conspicuous upsets. Neither of the pair was able to raise a respectable gallop in the preceding races. The weather was of the worst description and the attendance somewhat below the average. The betting, however, was very heavy and the thirty -eight layers had all they could do to handle the ring business. Marian Casey was shipped to Arcadia today. Lowes filly is an eligible to the Oaks, to lie run next Saturday at the southern course and will receive her final preparation there. The extra race evil has been eliminated from the local racing program since Martin Nathanson assumed the duties of handicapper and clerk of the course. Th;s forces owners who have hitherto shied at certain conditioned races to enter their horses oftener mid the results have been gratifying. There is now no longer any necessity for declaring races off as was formerly done with aggravating frequency. que.i-y.
