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LONG SHOTS TO THE FORE Winners at Lucrative Prices in Triumph at Tijuana Old KaffcrtyPays Over 10ft to 1 In Capturing Initial Dash Rcgrcso Hard v Horse toBeat A 1 jtei AN DIEQQ Cal i January 12 Long pljjaed horses electrified the spectators at tite Tijuana race track Thursday spelled the defeat of favorites and furnished sur ¬ prises to enliven the card Which hadthtfpre post appearance of being somewhat ordinary Aside from the fifth race and he sixth the latter being a handicap in which several Derby candidates made their appearance the program was deyoted principally to the lowly plater platerThe The card was only one race old when tho startling price of 11570 to 1 was displayed on the mutuel board following the victory j oCihe veteran horse Rafferty His triumph was accomplished in the initial dash at five and a half furlongs Badly outrun in the early part Kafferty came fast from the last i turn He caught Sweep Up II the oddson favorite tiring in the last sixteenth and under a hard drive by jockey Pevic he got up to win by a nose noseThe The excitement created by Raffertys long price had not subsided when another at great odds took the decision This was Jim Par ¬ ker in the second at five and a half fuiiongs Jockey Rose saved Jim Parker behind Til lotson the almost prohibitive favorite and pacemaker until turning for home The rider then allowed Jim Parker his way and the gelding rushed into the lead to win with the greatest of ease by three lengths Til lotson had a hard battle to hold second place from George Muehlebach Those who wag ¬ ered on Jim Parker in the machines were well rewarded for he paid 4140 to 1 When jockey Rose rode back to salute the judges and dismounted he was given quite an ovation it being the first winner the youth had ever piloted pilotedThe The C B Irwin stable had the good horse Regreso as its winner for the afternoon and from his manner of achieving victory the horse that whips him these days is in for a battle Jockey Martinez who always ap ¬ pears to ride this horse faultlessly allowed Regreso to travel at easy stages for the first quarter of the one mile and seventy yards The pace was being established by Woodia Montgomery and he held sway until the stretch turn where Martinez made his move From this point to the end Regreso never Continued on twelfth pa c LONG SHOTS TO THE FORE Continued from first page left the result in doubt and he won easily by threequarters of a length The specula ¬ tors refused to consider any other in the field seriously making Ilegreso a 9 to 10 favorite Katherine Rankin showed speed but she displayed fatigue and was barely able to hold third place from Whippet Regresos victory was made more creditable on ac ¬ count of his heavy impost of 125 pounds more weight than he has ever before carried at the Tijuana track trackAnother Another long shot proved best in the con ¬ cluding dash of the day when Royal Maid smothered her opponents with speed and at odds of 11 to 1 cantered home first in front of Poacher and El Roble Royal Maid was a field horse being coupled with the gold brick Southern Gentleman so dubbed be ¬ cause he brought the handsome sum of 24 500 in the sales ring as a yearling and has yet to win a dollar in purse money for his various owners ownersThree Three horses changed hands In the seventh race via the claiming route James Healy took Gen Czar from J Humbrecht E Moore lost Miss Emma G to J Stewart while Messrs Qtiinlan and ITeigel acquired Vic Munoz The consideration in each case was 51000 In the last race El Roble which C B Irwin recently purchased ht private sale was claimed by J B McGinn for 1SOO 1SOOOwner Owner E Moore has set jockey R Flynn on the ground indefinitely on account of in ¬ subordination subordinationBetween Between races W Fenwiclc sent his good handicap horse John Paul Jones an easy threequarters in 1 16Vs The rider had the horse under restraint and it was discern ¬ ible that the Coffroth Handicap hope could have worked in much faster time had ho been given a free rein reinJohnny Johnny iftawllns Giant infielder anl Ur ¬ ban Faber White Sox pitcher were visitors at the track today todayWhen When Tlegreso won his race yesterday it marked his seventh victory of the present Tijuana meeting Despite his nine yeas this veteran seems to have imbibed of the foun ¬ tain of youth for he was never better than at the present time and appears to have taken a new lease on life
