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LONG SHOTS PREDOMINATE Favorites Fare Badly at Tijuana Friday Bardoras Strange Mishap After Winning SAX DIEGO Cal April 2 The light weighted mare May Maiilsby paying 19 to 1 won a neck decision from Vanessa Welles in the fiftli and feature race here Friday after a thrilling struggle which lasted throughout the final eighth Wild Thoughts was third The winner was carefully served behind the leader by the inexperienced Jockey Iarke and after Wild Thoughts and Joe Goodman lad raced themselves into exhaustion the mare was brought up on the outside and taking the lead seemed to have the race easily won However jockey Willis on Vanessa Welles had called on his mount for her supreme effort and the stouthearted Weant mare came with a gallant rush Iarke on the winner sensed his danger and driving May Maiilsby out to the last ounce she lasted long enough to win by a neck neckLong Long shots again predominated only some luke ¬ warm choices finding their way home in front frontThe The sport openend with a twoyearold claiming race which attracted a field of eight youngsters Nan McKinney a splendid looking daughter of Leonid Kate Doriuan with jockey Hayward in the saddle was letnrned winner with the favorite Hal Wright in second place AIcso took the small end of the purse The winner was well backed by her stable connections and made no mistake by leading throughout throughoutLady Lady Josephine was easily the best of a bad band in the mile race and came from a long way back to outgame the pacemaker Prophecy The latter showed an abundance of speed but tired midway of the stretch and had to be hard ridden to save second place from the fast coining Ruth Harrigan Little Orphan was backed into favoritism despite the fact that she was intrusted to the maiden jockey Noble She displayed nothing to warrant her short price priceSANDAB SANDAB SHOCKS THE TALENT TALENTThe The talent was rudely shocked in the third race a sprint of fiveeighths wiien the extreme outsider Sandal gbtiiplfrUme to wiir by a scant margin from L Gentry and Oklahoma Irish L Gentry starting for the first time in the colors of II A Jones who claimed him some time ago from K Buchanan was made the medium of a heavy plunge and the gelding was wagered on with exertme con ¬ fidence He raced into a big lead and threatened to spreadeagle his opponents However when mid ¬ way of the stretch he closed up like the proverbial jackknife and a few more strides would have found him surrendering second place After the race it was learned that there were four claims in for the supposed good thing one of which was lodged by his previous owner E Buchanan In the shakeoff the latter turfman secured him for 700 700The The unlucky filly Tawasentha finally won 1 purse for Daggie Smith after many disappointments Under a good ride on the part of jockey B Marinclli she came fast on the outside and won with speed in reserve from Aryanna and George James JamesA A tendency to run out on all the turns contributed to the defeat of the favorite Trophy in the sixth race at a mile and a sixteenth The Poison horse showed the most speed but ran out so badly that his jocke3 was kept busily engaged in hitting him alongside of the head to keep him in However he led until in the last sixteenth where he sud ¬ denly succumbed to the challenge of the fast com ¬ ing Piedra Iteydo was third thirdThe The consistent filly Bardora won her third con ¬ secutive victory when she cantered home in the final rae over the pacemakers Charlcstonian and La Bete Noire NoireAfter After the race Bardora met with a strange acci ¬ dent While pulling up on the outside near the threequarters iwst she stepped in a hole and with jockey B Marinelii was precipitated over the outer rail Marinelii escaped without a scratch while the filly ran away It was not until some time after that she was caught and returned to the stand and Inasmuch as her rider was unable to weigh out the official result was held back a matter of fifteen minutes until she was brought back to the stand standW W F Poison lost Trophy out of the sixth race C B Irwin taking him to his bam for 1700 1700Tne Tne hurdle race which is carded for today lias attracted much attention as the field of flat runners are all making their debut over the hurdles The field will be asked to fence over five obstacles and a good contest is expected as the majority of the starters are said to be well schooled
