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OLD DANDELION IN FRONT. DEFFATS RUBIA GRANDA IN THE CHIEF RACE OF THE DAY AT OAKLAND. Cotvtto Shows Improved Speed — Four Favorites Win Before a Big Crowd — Jockey Shilling Reinstated. San Frarciscn. Cal.. April 2. — The usual off lav brand m| atlia.-tioiis Was served up St Oakland lo il.n . nevertheless Hie spoil was rt llt» with inter est .Mil. I ndlfflt. I-.. I 111 wa- maintained allll a Majority of the spc.-ulativoh Inclined visitors enthused ever ! ■ • results. W.-.-i I li.-r conditions were ideal and III.- alt.-l.dailre ill CXCCSS St ."..OOO. Dandelion. Hie rejuvenated ..111 Madden tMW. made good handsomely in ill. principal ran- of I In-day. Hough riding marred the i ■■■it Hwii II William*" beautiful fillv. Hnhia liranila. being forced out of position by tin- winner :ii u critical measent in the stretch. Judge oiiinn. Cotytto. Red Leaf anil Dandelion wit" Hie sucresslnl favorites, while Walsh. Qraaa. Sroville. Taplin. Uoss ami MiTntyre acrounted for the joekev hoiiors. "invito was another ease of pronounced re.juvelirt Hon. Aaolph Sprockels" filh running iji an almost unbeatable fashion in the so.oiul race. The sim.ii aulas the final fortnight of its sway in California t. .11101 row. The greatest two-year-old race ever deeiiled west of the Mississippi River will lulu 11 — the ielihanl Hamiirap. at live furlongs. The field ot twenty annouiieeil overnight candidates will prohal.lv lie augmented In added starters. No less than six important stables will be represented b two or more starters. Shilling, who has just been reinstated by the Santa Anita stewards 10 ride for K. L. Thomas exclusively, will have the mount on living Sipiirrel. Jockey Taplin was fined 0 for foul riding, an.l his reeent rough work in the saddle will be further investigated by the stewards. O. Burns has been reinstated to ride for S. C. lliliirelli exclusively. Strike -breaker James Farleys recent arrival i* making thing* hum in the betting rins these days. Jockey Gilbert made Ma reaniiearann- HMlav for ihe first time since lie fell and broke a collarbone in a race several weeks ago. and was heartily cheered. Saudv was crowded to Hie feme while riding Nuimi Nick in the first rare and incapacitated from riding for the remainder of the aflernoon. l. Roastierg. who tested the lxK-ke law in Tbilisi :111a. left for Los Angeles tonight, whore lie baa. -nlu-red a stable of horses which he will take to Jacksonville. 11a.. to race.
