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SOME EXCELLENT RACING AT OAKLAND Vox Populi Defeats Daruma in a Fast Run Contest Preston Down for a Year Oakland Cal April 30 An excellent midweek card was decided at Oakland today and with th successes of four favorites and a strongly backed second choice the big crowd of racing enthusiasts present enjoyed a very profitable afternoons sport from a speculative standpoint Nellie Racine one of the extreme outsiders at 15 to 1 In the opening race astonished everybody by scoring over a jfast band and In fast time with the good lightweight jockey Goldstein up and displaying the most ex ¬ traordinary Improvement over her preceding effort when Miller rode her to defeat The latter made amends for three defeats during the running of the first half of the card by subsequently winning a couple o good races with AVap and Humero both of which were quoted at surprisingly liberal odds oddsThcifourtii Thcifourtii race at one mile and a sixteenth which had engaged the best class of horses pro ¬ duced a fine contest the favorite Vox Populi a James R Keene castoff getting up to win by a head from the pacemaker Darnma in the very last stride of a very game and uphill effort effortCrlln Crlln Ormonde which went lame in the paddoct before the second race was excused by the stew ards and as betting on the race had progressed for a fevr minutes all wagers were declared off and twenty minutes allowed the rlmj for making a new book bookColonel Colonel A W Hamilton presiding Judge at the recent Santa Anita meeting announced today that Preston the jockey implicated in the John Lyle Varietes turf scandal had been suspended foe one year from date dateE E J Baldwin has presented Early WrlgTit with 300 for his recent successful handling of Llsaro
