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Show I' POLO PONIES RAGE AT SAN FRANGiSGO Society Event the Feature of Yesterday's Yester-day's Meet on the California J Track. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.-0nc of tlio features at Oakland today was a wpeclal j race at a quarter of a mllo for polo ponies, i tho entries being Walter Uobart's Silver . Dick, Mips Miller, owned by Paul Clug-stonc, Clug-stonc, and Rudolph Spreckles's Becky. ' Sliver Dick ruled a 1 to 2 favorite. There ' was a lone delay at tho post, duo to the i unruly actions of Miss Miller. Silver I Dick won as ho pleased from Miss Miller. A handicap, at a mllo and a sixteenth, j drew a good Held, Honlton boing a 1 to 2 favorite, The break was a poor one, Honiton atumbling, whllo DIvlna was practically left, the boy pulling hor up after a short distance. Honlton assumed (.ommand early and opened a gap in tho Hold. Though tiring badly she lasted lone enough to beat Gateway by a neck. Flvo favorites were returned wlnneru, and tho twenty-one books In line had the worst of the argument. Results: First race, six furlongs, selling Wiggins Wig-gins won, My Surprise second, Titus third. Time. 1:13. Second race, four furlong, purse The Mlet won, Gcorgo P. McNeer second, Sea Air third. Time. :4S. Third race, mllo and a furlong, selling Chickadee won, Searcher second, Billy Moore third. Time. 1.&J. JTourth race, one-quartor of a mile, uonles, purse Silver Dick, 155 (Bonner), 1 to 2, won; Miss Miller. UG (H. Spencer), 12 to 1, second; Becky, 11D (I. Powell), 2 to 1, third. Time, :23Vi. Fifth raco, mllo and a sixteenth Honlton Honl-ton won. Gateway second, G. VT. Trahern third. Time, l:ICVa. Sixth race, six and a half furlongs, ' j urse Mansard won, Ocyroho second, Ink third. Time, 1:20. . Seventh race, ono milo. selling Illlluoun won. Forest King second, Ora Viva third. Time, l:4Ht. |