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FAVORITES WIN AT TIJUANA Cheap Platers Furnish Good Sport Be Frank Lame and Out of Sundays Race SAX DIBGO Cal April 16 Favorites accounted for the majority of races yesterday four short priced liorses finding tile way home in front while a second choice and two outsiders won the others There being an absence of a feature race the entire card of seven races was participated in by the cheaper class horses horsesA A bad band of sprinters answered the call of the bugle in the first race in which the onetime fast horso Bars and Stars ruled the public choice Despite the fact that hcraii a good game race the Weant sprinter was forced to lower his colors to Frank Waters which won his first victory at this meeting since shipping here from New Orleans in charge of Clarence Bnxton Mannikin II an ¬ other well backed horse finished in third place placeT T C AVilliams disclosed a speedy one in the second race at threequartcrs when he sent Effi ¬ cient a fiveyearold son of Star Shoot to the post Well supported by his stable connections he spfreadeagled his opponents and although racing wjfle when entering the stretch won in a common canter from Last Chance and Little Pointer PointerThe The favorite Robert Lee found his task a stren ¬ uous one to win his race as the extreme long shot Prophecy was crowding him at the finish and it took the hardest kind of riding for jockey Powell to land him in front As an evidence of how close the verdict was the result was in doubt until the official placing had been displayed Knight of Pythias was easily best of the others othersThe The veteran Charlestonian which in his lifetime has seen service between the shafts of a bakery wagon at New Orleans tlieii to be brought back to the sport again demonstrated that he can still win races by taking the fourth dash at a mile and seventy yards His present owner George P Fuller the San Francisco paint magnate backed him heavily with the result that he cantered to the post an oddson choice The old fellow made the pace and gallantly defended himself by ward ¬ ing off Sam Hill at the finish to win by a length with Miss Sedalia third thirdAnother Another extremely close finish was provided in the fifth race in which Neg and Tillotson hooked up in a thrilling stretch duel in which they fought it out from the eighth post to the winding line Neg under the perfect guidance of jockey Powell got the nod at the finish after Tillotson had led until the last stride Celebrate was third thirdBUNGLING BUNGLING HIDE DEFEATS CAVALCADOUR II IIA A bungling ride was responsible for the defeat of Cavalcadour II in the sxth race at a mile and seventy yards Judge David winning a neck decision over him Cavalcadour II which ruled the favorite was much the best but his rideri jockey H Jones got him away badly then to make mutters worse he got him pocketed and shut off repeatedly ana although the horse showed in front when entering the stretch Powell astride of the winner clearly outrode Jones in the stretch drive Runecraft which finished in third place was closing up fast and a few mor6 strides might have returned him the winner as he was lapped on the leaders and running fastest of all allThe The unsound but speedy mare Hazel Dale made it three in a row when she cantered in front of a band of sprinters at fiveeighths in the concluding race of the day Her victory was considered a fore ¬ gone conclusion and she made no mistakes by win ¬ ning easily all the way with Tempy Duncan in the second place a head in front of Hugh Angleton It was reported today that the crack longdis ¬ tance horse Be Frank was out of the 5000 Tijuana Cup at two miles which is to be run Sunday on account of lameness In his last work in prepara ¬ tion for the race he pulled up lamu and heroic efforts were made to correct his ailment How ¬ ever his bad ankle which has been a source of worriment to his owner since he lias conic here failed to respond to treatment and trainer Harry Unna was forced to admit that the big horse would stay in the barn on Sunday SundayA A new saddle artist another product of this years Tijuana meeting appears on the horizon in jockey Powell who yesterday rode three winners The lad seems to be the making of a good rider and is coming to the front with marked improvement improvementClarence Clarence Buxton who brought War Mask Kash ¬ mir Johnny Dundee Heroism and other good ones here lias made preparations to make his dupnrture from Tijuana on next Monday He will Mp to Jamaica N Y where he will join Jiis ttfbie with those which he wintered at Xqw Orleans and had shipped to the abovenamed traeKT traeKTAfter After lucognance the speedy Disguise colt whim races in the colors Qffhe Meadow Brook Stable and is trained by the veteran George Berry had defeated Johnny Dundee last Sunday much dis ctission arose as to which was the best colt Im ¬ mediately after the race Bnxton offered to wager 5000 that Johnny Dundee could beat Incognance in a return race and the offer laid in abeyance for a few days Yesterday Berry accepted the chal ¬ lenge but in the morning Johnny Dundee had fallen lame which of course eliminated the chances of these two fast colts meeting again at this meeting
