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SELLING PLATERS THRIVE. ENTIRE CARD AT OAKLAND MADE- UP OF SELLING RACE PURSES. Argonaut Defeats Apto Oro Favorites Fare Badly Racing at City of Mexico in December . . of Next Year, i f San Francisco. Cal.. December 7. An nll-selling-raco card was decided over a nuiddv track at Oakland today. The frequent upsets which have market local racing for three days, are to le ascribed to the over-changing track conditions. Only three favorites out of eighteen have materialized in that time, two of them, Elevation and llazlet, rewarding their backers today. Billy Bowlegs and lie Thank-Xul, frequently beaten of late, seem to have been particularly well served by the going that prevailed. They won the second and fourth races respectively, decisively reversing their previous running with about the same class of horses. Favorite backers fared noorly from the start. In the first race Argonaut, second choice, prevailed over Thomas II. Williams Apto Oro. the best-backed horse during the day. .St. Avon, at odds-on. failed to run up to expectations in the next race, won by the conspicuously improved Billy Howlers. Elevation led his eight opponents under a pull in the third. ISe Thankful cantered in from his opponents in the fourth. The Captain emulated with a narrowly achieved victory over Aks-Ar-Ben in the fifth, and llazlet. at 13 to 20. rescued the plunging contingent from complete disaster at the close. .Toekey Butler surprised his detractors bv beating the other riders away from the post with Argonaut iii the opener, and followed this up by effective obstructing tactics further on. which onabled him to beat Auto Oro. which was the chief sufferer. Buxton took the saddle honors with two wins. Upton, Keogh land Gilbert accounted for the remainder of the program. A. Walsh has been sin gularly unfortunate of late, and the losses of his employer, W. K, Applegate. are very heavy in consequence. Walshs failure on Seranroiii and Oesa proved particularly costly. President Thomas II. Williams returned from his .Mexican trip of four weeks today. He said that ground will be broken for the projected new course near the City of I.Mexico when Alk-rt Terrazas. president of the Mexican Jockey Club, gets back from Kurope. where he is journeying at nrescnt. Racing at the Mexican! capital on a big scale will be inaugurated in December of 1000. It transpires that Dorante lost the shoes off of -both front feet while going round the first turn during the running of the -Stan ford Handicap last Saturday. Tliis explains Ms "very poof showing In "that race. Itoseben is very sore after each race and lias to be nursed along for several days before he is in condition for another good effort. The great sprinters work has been of the easiest kind, live furlongs in 1:0S over the inside track being the fastest work asked of him since his arrival in California. Fred Cook was greeted with bad news immediately on his arrival here last Sunday morning. Trainer Hector informed him that liis great three-vear-old. Lawrence I. Daley, came out of a three-furlongs exercise that morning with tendons on both forelegs liowcd. Secretary Percy W. Treat has received a telegraphic request from W. T. Anderson for stall room for four horses, including Taxer. Litholin and Spohn. It. F. Ferris also telegraphed that he would ship the -following- horses from HI Paso to Oakland: Cock Sure. Golf Ball. Donna Elvira and Thistle Belle. Aftermath bled and was pulled up in his race this afternoon. II. W. Hoag and Co. have just purchased II. G. Bodwells contract on jockev Lvcurgus. The horses Tommy Ahearn and Mrs. OFarrell. formerly trained by Joe Stern and subsequently in litigation and sold, are now owned bv P. Donaldson and have been restored to good standing by the stewards. Barney Schreiber reports that the condition of his cashier, Henry Fllttner. is encouraging. The latest diagnosis is that he is suffering with a slight attack of apoplexy.
