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• i | : PAJAROITA PAINS PEOPLE MIXTURE OF BAD JUDGMENT AND BAD RIB-ING BRINGS SWIFT SPRINTER DEFEAT. Import Wins the Chief Race Untouched by Whip or Spur — Unbacked Outsider Outstays Altair — Stallion Watchful Is Dead. Oakland. CaL, February 12.— The racing at Oakland te clay was satisfactory and form fill enough for five races, but finally wound up with the ignominious defeat of Pajaroita. a heavily bai-ke-d odds .m public choice, by Bucolic, a cheap, but well-meant, selling plater. Reprehensible riding tactics on the part of T. Rice, the joe-key. were re-sponsible for this unexiK-e-ted upset. Bice allowing the diminutive Cbarboneau to outbreak him on the ultimate winner. Then he foolishly went after ami disposeel e f Sevenfull. an abnormally fast but consistent epiitter. which e-arried him to the outside fence on the stretch turn. He afterward took Pajaroita a diagonal course to the inside into the worst going, where 1m- finished second with the best horse, untouched by whip or spurs. The sport be-gan with an upset which left the layers with absolutely clean sheets when the neglected Byron at 25 to 1 scored by a narrow margin over Altair. Belle of Iroquois, the best-hacked horse in the second rae-e, decisively reversed her running witli the favprite. Salvage. At their last meeting, todays winner finished last and Salvage first. Experts did not take Toll Boxs race seriously today. This is a stake- e-olt unless all the earmarks of a c-raeke-rjae-k are misleading. Watchful, the last state breeding bureau recruit. died this morning. Jockey Willie Kuapp was iu evidence at Oak laud today. The crack jockey said that he would resume riding next Saturday. Br. Itowell wired from Santa Anita yesterday that he would bring only Kuhia Granda and another of the Williams horses nortli with lilni this week. This is taken to nie-anthat he will return to Arcadia with .joe-key Miller after the dee-ision of the Ounst Stakes, in which Kuhia Granda will carry tin- Williams colors at the Emeryville track Saturday. Judge Hopper was not satisfied with the showing that The Captain made on Monday and an investi- gation of his performance is in progress.
