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LADIES DAY AT TIJUANA t Four Favorites, Two Heavily Backed, Reward Supporters. Abadane Scores in Fast Time Jockey Ralls Rides Three Winners Ring Wins and Changes Owners. SAN DIEGO, Cal.. December 27. Four favorites were successful at Tijuana yesterday, and on two of these winners the rank and file wagered "early and often," as the saying goes. The two so well liked by the public were Ring and Abadane, and both justified the unqualified support given them, for they won with lengths to spare. It was Ladies Day and a big gathering of the fair fans turned out, adding color to the picture. Incidentally, many out-of-town visitors who came for the week-end found the lure of the kingly thoroughbred too strong to resist, and remained over for a few more days of the sport. It was expected that after the long siege of mud the good horses from the East, which had been kept in waiting during the rain and trying courses, would be making their appearance, and so yesterday the public had opportunity to see Abadane, that slashing sprinter from the Clifton Stable, win the three-quarters feature attraction the fifth race on the card in a common canter. The race was somewhat marred by the poor beginning of Lucky Button. That filly dwelt as the barrier arose and was last to leave the starting post. However, she quickly settled into her stride and before the half-mile post was reached she was winging in front This took a mighty effort on her part, and when she was challenged in the stretch by Abadane she had nothing left to ward off his rush and fell an easy victim to his reserve speed. The race was run in 1 :12ts, the fastest time of the distance for this meeting. Had Lucky Button been fortunate to get away from the barrier on even terms with Abadane it is more than likely that she would have put up a hard battle through the final eighth, and it is more than probable that the time hung out would have been shaded at least the extra two-fifths of a second over the twelve mark. RINGS COSTLY VICTORY. William "Red" Walker accomplished something with the mare Ring which other trainers have failed to do. He made this daughter of Leonid and Hands Around to go a mile and win. She won from "end to end," but at the finish Silk Sox was catching her fast and had the race been a trifle farther the result would have been reversed. Walkers joy of sending Continued on twelfth pace LADIES DAY AT TIJUANA Continued from first page. Ring on her successful errand was a costly one, for he lost his speedy horse via the claiming route. There were four claims registered for her and in the shake-off A. L. Briggs was the lucky one to take her for the sum of ,100. Inasmuch as Ring was claimed last year for an amount in the neighborhood of ,000 it can be understood that the veteran horseman was not in a pleasing frame of mind when he was notified to turn Ring over to her new owner. It was a big afternoon for jockey Ralls, for this energetic young man finished on three winners and was second with another mount. He scored with Walter Dant, Sir Leonid and Ask Jessie. In great form is this youthful reinsman, in whose veins courses the blood of the American redskin, and critical judges, say that he is destined to be one of the most brilliant riders of the many developed at Tijuana. His riding on Ask Jessie in the concluding dash was all that could be asked for. Herder, from a slow beginning, was rapidly overhauling the Texas mare at the end and Ralls fairly lifted his tiring mount over the imaginary line, a winner by the scantest of margins. In this race a speedy horse was uncovered in Tubby A. from the A. Brent barn. He was away none too fast and ran a corking race to be third. This race was run in 1:01, which. is good time for this caliber of horses. Jack Eckert recorded his first success of the present meeting when his colors, carried by Piedra, were home first in the sixth race, at one mile and seventy yards. The winner paid better than 5 to and had but little difficulty in taking Mannikin II. and Louis measure at the end. Jockey W. Pooe was forced to cancel his mounts for today, owing to a slight attack of tonsilitis. William "Red" Walker made a futile effort to have the mare Ring scratched. It was in the air that she would change barns, and Walker was loath to start her when the rumor spread that there were "men with halters" ready to lead her to their barn. Jockey M. Fator was a most discouraged lad when the day was over and he had failed to win a race. Before entering the jockeys room he predicted that he would narrow the margin for the supremacy of the American jockeys by his rival, C. Lang. He rode his hardest, it seemed, but the best he could do was to finish in second place on three occasions. C. B. Irwins remarkable winning streak continued unbroken yesterday when his Walter Dant scored in the second race. To date this owner and trainer has won in purses a total of 1,490, a remarkable sum when taken into consideration that his stable, in the majority, consists of platers.
