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MUDDY TRACK AT OAKLAND FAVORITES FAIL TO RUN WELL IN THE GOING AND ALL ARE BEATEN. Mauretania Wins the Chief Race of the Day County Clerks Success Threatens Danger to a Jockey Kirschbaum. : r San Francisco, Cal.. December 4. The racing al Oakland today was seriously impaired as sport by . rain and mud. The weather conditions had a baneful effect on. the favorites. Exceprting Force, which finished third in the Lisle Handicap, they all ran unplaced. Todays unusual form conditions proved timely for the layers, the majority being distressed financially, since for twenty-three days past public choices have enjoyed an almost uninterrupted series of successes. The inost pretentious race from the money vlewiHint was run as the fourth, a handicap Tor two-year-olds exclusively at seven furlongs, and won by tMauretania, an outsider, after a long stretch drive. Force and Sempronium. lirst and second ifavorites. ran poorly and were both unable to stride -freely in the goinjr. County Clerk scored an extraordinary victory in the Ions-distance race. Kirschbaums pulling and hauling tactics in ills last previous race in disregard of his riding instructions, were in great contrast to Buxtons riding. He took the four-year-old out with a. long lead today as directed and successfully spreadcagled his opposition, while never extended beyond a canter. The stewards are investigating Kirschbaums- riding. This, lad has been under suspicion for a long time and on more than one occasion suspended. .Keogh earned the jockey honors with two winners, Ipton. Buxton, Kirschbaum and Scoville scoring one each. J. Lee rode two favorites, Raleigh and Orchan, to defeat. Iarry Hack claimed Mattie Mack out of the fifth race for 8725. Jockey Palms, suspended last year for an unsatisfactory ride on Byronerdale. has been given permission by the stewards to exercise horses of mornings for his former employer. Former jockey Clem Jenkins is reported to bt flying at a local hospital from the effects of an operation for appendicitis performed a week ago. Deverich. Barney Schreibers diminutive jockey, was suspended for three days by starter Dwyer for getting away poorly with Guy Fisher. An all-star card is published for tomorrow, with weather and track indications pointing to rain and L. mud.
