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GOOD RACING AT OAKLAND DOWNPATRICK TAKES THE PRINCIPAL FEA ¬ TURE OF THE AFTERNOON IN A CANTER Yada Reverses with Lord Nelson Owner Dayton1 Intends to Show New Yorkers How Fast Jack Nunnally Can Run Oakland Cal April 10 Walter Miller is still incapacitated from riding and the absence of the star jockey from the Oakland nice course is keenly regretted by the general public He is suffering from a sore throat and may not he seen in the saddle again until next week weekTodays Todays card contained no stake feature but was an allaround good one nevertheless No pro ¬ nounced outsider or favorite finished in front in any of the six races Every winner was accorded plentiful support Two favorites three second choices and one fourth choice were successful successfulEight Eight of the best horses in training were engaged in the fourth race at one mile and a sixteenth The start was very bad the favorite Ocean Shore and Frank Flittner being virtually left at the post The somewhat inconsistent Downpatrick scored a sensa ¬ tional victory winning away off from Hilgert arid Vov Populi the only other horses that got away well wellYada Yada reversed his previous running with Lord Nelson in convincing fashion in the last race hut the latter was given a poor ride besides being un ¬ lucky luckyWilliam William Cahill has purchased the twoyearold chestnut colt Captain John by Yellow Tail Play ¬ ful from C M Van Gordon for 1000 and Oak liind experts claim that the colt at that price is the best bargain in horsellesh they have seen in years Captain Tohn is one of the largest youngsters in training and has all the earmarks of a colt of the first magnitude magnitudeThomas Thomas II Williams Barney Schrelhcr and Wil ¬ liam Cahill are three coast turfmen who expect to make several nominations each to the stakes offered by the Montreal Tockey Club to be run at the Blue Bonnets course next June JuneTrainer Trainer I Henry will leave for Woodlands Farm at Bridgeport Mo tonight to take up the big band of twoyearolds Barney Sehrelber will race on the New York tracks this season seasonA A I Dayton is planning a campaign on the New York tracks with his two cracks Neva Lee and Tack Nunnally Tho last named holds the American race record for the fastest live furlongs W I Miilard with four racers J E Gushing with three Wilson Carcu with two and J Gardner with two arc recent arrivals from Santa Anita U C Chambers and Charles Walker who have controlled the betting privileges on the Panner Hendrie tracks In Canada of late years are here It Is reported that Tanforan will be converted into a mile and an eighth track and will he raced over exclusively by the New California Jockey Club during the wet weather next year yearJockey Jockey John Bullman and Bishop Poole are re ¬ cent arrivals arrivalsJim Jim Norvell leaves for Indiana tomorrow
