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ALL FOR SELLING RACERS. OAKLANDS CARD GIVEN UP TO THE MODERATE CLASS HORSES THROUGHOUT. Tony Faust Proves a Surprise and Wins a Capital Race — Only One Real Favo- ite Succeeds. San Francisco. Cal.. April 5 — Another all-selllng-nn card was ieeMed at Oakland today. Fields WIN big ami well balanced and a remarkably inter rating afternoons racing developed. The lest at traction was reserved for tlie last. Nine good sprinters lined up for this live and a half furlongs dash. Victory went to S. . Hildreths Tony Pratt after n sensational struggk-. remarkable for the kaleidoscopic shifting of positions in tlie final sixteenth of the iourney and the fact that not one spectator in a thousand guessed the identity of the leading horse at the end. so swift and sudden was his descent ■MM the scene. Only one pronounced favorite Little Siss in tin-opener, was successful, vet every winner was unqualifiedly the lust horse iu his res|»ective race. The defeat of the five false favorites of the ring-made kind occasioned no surprise. Yankee Daughter, at IS to 1. was a conspicuous example of a horse •Hinted at absurdly overlaid odds. Niblick scored at the right moment for James Boden and his friends in the third. A. G. Blakelev lias announced the sale, witliout reserve of the following horses in the paddock ht Oakland next Friday, at 12:30 p m.: Cowcn. Erbct. Cbanlet. Harry Rogers. Blue Heron and Optica Lass. W. w. Finn, manager of the coming race meeting at Salt Lake City, attired at Oakland today, and will spend the coming week exploiting his meeting. Many horsemen have signified their intention to race at the Mormon track. It transpires that Judge J. A. Murphv was selected to preside on the Montana circuit as long ago as last Christmas. Kobert F. I.eighton will manage the coining race meeting of sixty ilavs at Victoria. B. C. June 3 is the date set for the opening. Frank Skinner, who is well qualified to act, will till the office of presiding iudge. with Frederick MiilliollaiwI as assistant, and Samuel McGihtion will serve as clerk of the scales. Both men are highlv 11-ied. Barney Schreitier ami E. Trotter will ship a consignment of horses fo race on the Texas circuit. Hie Thomas II. Williams dispersal Bale will take place on April 10.
