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GERST FILLY DISAPPOINTS. ESTELLA C. HEAVILY BACKED IN HER OAKLAND DEBUT. BUT RUNS SECOND. Billy Pullman Takes the Feature Race from Nadzu by Inches Joe Rose Wins Like a Good One. San Francisco. Cal.. December 10. William Gerst s big racing establishment was represented at Oakland today for the first time, its colors being carried to defeat by Estella C. in the last race on the card. The California-bred lilly was the best-backed Pacific coast debutante seen here in a loin; time. Notwithstanding the claims made for ICstelia C.. that she was as good or better than her stable-mate, Hanbridge. which had made good so convincingly the day before, her backers harked back to Glassner s poor riding of Footloose in the opening dash and were tilled with misgivings in consequence. The result of the race proved that their apprehensions were well founded, as. despite a fast, game and mnder more favorable conditions what would have been a winning effort, the good thing was unequal to the handicap involved in carrying her weak rider to the front. The excellent card of six overnight races contained no stake features. In the fourth race not onlv were the best horses competing for the biggest prize, but it was productive of the most interesting turf spec- tacle. Only four horses faced the barrier. Iiillv Pulliuan. Nadzu. County Clerk and Remember. The Mush was particularly thrilling and in doubt to the very last stride, when the first-named got up under I. .McCarthys masterly effort. County Clerk, which led lroin the start, swerved obliquely across the track and into defeat in the closing fifty vards. Impeding the fast-coming Nadzu on the inside. Hut tor these unlooked for happenings, the favorite would have had to content himself with the smallest end ot the purse. Aliness began proceedings with a lucky win over rootloose. tredonia scored after a long uphill struggle In the next, and Joe Rose, a promising two-vcar old. belonging to Barney Sehrcibor. spreadeagled superior opposition in the third. The fifth nice was captured by Fulletta. Taplin. the Bedwell appren-r .."p,Iil,ye1 remarkable form on this sluggish son or Mirthful, getting home finally after bumping bis way througli the leaders when a sixteenth out. Foul was churned on behalf of Forerunner, but was not allowed. Favorites held their own today despite the muddv and treacherous track conditions with three races to their credit and as two second and a third choice t in the betting look the remaining half of the card, r the layers had the worst of the argument with the speculatively inclined public. Perfect weather prevailed and the big patronage showed steadily increasing local interest in the sport
