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MERITORIOUS RECORD Harry D. Wins Seventh Out of Eleven Starts at Tijuana. Jockey Ralls Adds Three More Successes to Fast-Growing-List Clavers Escape. SAN DIEGO. Cal., December 28. Veterans of the turf arc wearing a puzzled look as they search their memory. Theyre turning back into the pages of recollections to find a record of accomplishments such as Harry D. has earned since Jim Coffrolh opened his plant Thanksgiving Day. They are generally agreed that Harry D., that grand eight-year-old campaigner from the barn of C. B. Irwin, has made an enviable record on the turf. Its details are as follows: Yesterday wa3 the twenty-fourth racing day. In this time Harry D. has been to the post on eleven occasions. Including his gallant victory of yesterday afternoon he has scored seven victories and been second twice, leaving only two times that he failed to finish in the money. He has been sent to the post on an average of about every other day during the period, and despite the voluminous work heaped upon him he was as chipper as he paraded yesterday as is a thoroughbred going to the starter for the first time after a long rest in pastures green. Despite his long list of successes since Thanksgiving Day the public made Kingliko the favorite over Harry D. and by way of reminding the talent that they had erred the Irwin racer won the fifth race, at fivo and one-half furlongs, by a length from the favorite. ICING LIKE THE PEACEMAKER. It was Kinglike that set the pace, with Harry D. racing in closest pursuit of him. The former secured quite a lead, but Harry D. never gave up his chase of the leader; His gameness was rewarded a sixteenth out, where he caught Kinglike and wearing him down quickly won going away. Anna Regina was third. Such a record as Harry D. has made would be considered quite creditable even in a years campaign and when thought is given to the fact that it has been in twenty-four days of racing his accomplishment appears to be noteworthy. On wet or on the dry or any sort of track, under adverse or pleasant weather conditions, he has scored in his triumphant march. What a real good old sprinter is this son of Barnsdale Turnaway ! Jockey Ralls kept right at his knitting yesterday afternoon and was first home with three winners again. His victorious mounts were Nizam, Bill Head and Pueblo. Jockey W. Gargan celebrated his return to the saddle by riding his fathers thoroughbred Baisy to victory in the second race of the card. This was a mile for horses of the cheaper class. Gargan rode Baisy with wisdom, reserving her until well in the stretch, where he brought the filly up on the inside and quickly took the lead to win from Ollie Wood and Argento. ANOTHER FOR EUGENIA K. Eugenia K. showed herself to be in fine fettle When she made it two in a row for her owners. She had abundant speed, which enabled her to make every post a winning one and carried her to a somewhat easy victory over Vic and Dolph. Walter Dant, the favorite, with jockey M. Fator in the saddle, failed to race to expectations and finished outside of the money. Bill Head received one of those expert rides from jockey Ralls which enabled him to show the way to the finish in the sixth race, at one mile, to Yermak and Just Right. Ralls took the son of Doncaster around the first turn in front and when he was aware that Clock Stocking wished to set the pace he wisely took back and let that faint-hearted filly take up the running. Then in the stretch, when she tired, he sent the angular gelding on to the front again and ultimately won with speed in reserve. Jockey A. Claver had a narrow escape from serious injury in the fifth race when astride of Some Baby. That filly suffered a hemorrhage while rounding the last turn and fell, throwing the -J. K. L. Ross rider heavily. The crowd was not kept in suspenso long, for the veteran rider quickly scrambled to his feet, and barring a slight limp showed no ill effects of his trying experience. AV. T. Anderson has leased the services of apprentice jockey II. Howard from J. Boden until April 15, 1023. The lad can do eighty-four pounds and Anderson expects him to prove a most capable reinsman before ho reverts back to the owner of his contract. George Bogan, a well-known financier of San Francisco, was an arrival here to spend a brief holiday. Jockey B. Parke will accept his first mount at this meeting today, when he dons tho Nevada Stock Farm Stables colors of gold and silver and takes the leg up on the speedy filly Tule.
