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YANKEE DAUGHTER AGAIN alarms admirers by showing soreness, but; wins all the same. Katie. Powers the Only Winning Outsider, Favorites Taking Five Races More Horses Going to Oakland. San Francisco, Cal.. December 23. "Bis Tim" Sullivans Yankee Daughter survived early interference and won the second of the series of live selling races on the card at Oakland today. The winner displayed such pronounced stiffness and disinclination to extend herself in her preliminary gallop that intended hackers took alarm and proceeded .to ignore her in the betting. This enabled a well-informed few cognizant of the Mazagan Allys chronic soreness to obtain unexpectedly liberal odds against her. Bubbling Water captured the other two-year-old race. This -was a condition affair, the only one on the card, at live furlongs, and its running wound up an interesting though featureless afternoons sport. The remaining four selling races were won by St. Francis. Fulletta. Captain Kennedy and Katie Powers, all being favorites except the last named, which was accorded only meager support because of Glas-uers presence in the saddle. This was the Goid-blatt jockeys first success on the local track. Todays racing, over a muddy and deceptive course, developed extraordinarily formful results. The annals of local racing do not often show such uniformly forward running of public choices. The ranks of the layers were augmented by two newcomers at todays fresh cut-in. A majority of the thirty-four doing business quit big losers on then-afternoons ring transactions. P. T. Chinn has telegraphed Secretary Percy W. Treat for stable accommodations for twenty horses which he intends shipping up here immediately from Santa Anita in charge of .Tack McCormiek. Colonel Wliite was sold to W. Durker before todays races for ,000 and ran in his new owners name and colors. Jockey Scoville was suspended by starter Dwyer for three days for misbehavior at the post on Prince Nap. E. J. Baldwin is expected from Los Angeles today. The famous turfman was reported to be seriously ill last week.
