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PLATERS RUN TO FORM AT OAKLAND Burlcigh and Gypsy King Sold to M D Miller Jockey J Jones Badly Hurt in a Fall Oakland Cal May 2 Todays card at Oakland was conditioned for maidens and nonwinning selling platers and notwithstanding that the poorest class of horses quartered here was engaged the running of the different races was attended with vastly Im ¬ proved results from a form standpoint as compared with the more pretentious programs of the past week With the solitary exception of llama In the third race favorites and second choices monopolized the honors honorsFor For some inexplicable reason todays attendance at the track was the best of the week The perfect weather must have heen the chief contributing factor to Uiis state of affairs as the card was abso ¬ lutely featureless featurelessColonel Colonel Applegates crack lightweight jockey A Walsh will resume riding tomorrow his suspension of a week expiring today todayK K 7 Lucky Baldwin who is much Improved Jn health was a visitor at Oakland this afternoon afternoonPrivate Private advices from Barney Schreibers training quarters at Louisville bring the news that Emperor William a fnlltbrotlier to Johnny iLyons is the highesttried twoyearold there Woodlands Rose is also very fast fastJ J B Smith sold rurlcigh and Gypsy King to M D Miller today for 450O They will be raced at Seattle by their new owner ownerClondlight Clondlight was cut down in Wednesdays race raceFormer Former jockey J Jones was seriously injured while exercising a horse this morning at Emeryville His Jeft hip was badly fractured Itcsidcs his being otbcr wJse cut and bruised
