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f L hi hi n a a e: a a ii T o S b tl t v g f ii in e a t t i t , 1 . , OAKLAND RACING INFERIOR. LOW-CLASS HORSES HAVE A DAY AND UPSETS ARE NUMEROUS. Graphite Wins from Gromoboi and Byronerdale — Ormuz Beaten by Old Settler Through Bad Riding — Zelina Takes Her Race. Oakland. Cal.. January 27. — The backers were badly treated in their betting operations with the layers at Oakland today. As a matter of fact, it was the most Bastrous afternoons sjiort, from speculative standpoint, that local race-goers have experienced tills season. Every favorite was beaten, and in at least three instances. Red Bill. Gromoboi and particularly Ormuz. the spectators were stunned into receiving the results with absolute silence. The only two breaks in the procession of winning outsiders came from the two second choices, Emily M. and Craphite. --Ked" Walker, who at the beginning of the meeting had been turned down in the matter of stable accommodations at the local track, but subsequently and very recently was in vited to return from Santa Anita, whither he had gone in high dudgeon, began to make his presence felt today and was responsible for a pair of upsets Zelfna and Old Settler. Ornate, in the juvenile race, was a conspicuous example of laying away tactics in order to get abnormally big odds against a practical certainty. Croinobnis def -at by a very ordinary horse like Graphite after racing with Rifleman for over a mile in the Burns Handicap, looked very bad. There was nothing suspicious about Scovill -s saddle work, howevi r. Cood weather had helped to dry the track cou- • siderably and the going was stiff and deceptive and. as is usual under such conditions, form was not inainia ined. Jockey Hayes beat his own mount. Ormuz, the odds-on-favorite in the last race, by resorting to foul tactics to head off Boas, which threatened to pass him on the last turn. Both suffered materially and Old Settlers victory was a fluke. Hayes deliberately went out in the bad going to cany Boas out.
