Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-24
INTEREST IN RACING.
WHY IT SHOULD BE STIMULATED BY
CITIZENS OF SACRAMENTO.
The Opportunity Afforded by the Coming
Spring Meeting to Foster a
Profitable Enterprise.

| Never was there more favorable oppor-
tunity for the addition of another import
ant attraction for Sacramento than is now
| offered in the making of the coming spring
racing meeting success. and the only way
| to do so is for the business men and prop.
erty-owners themselves to indorse it by
their attendance. The State Agriculture
Society has undertaken the management of
this new adventure simply in the line of
its duty. one of its principal objects being
to foster the breeding of improved live
stock. To do so additional advantages
must be given the breeder to dispose of his
stock. and this is just what such events as
these annual meetings will accomplish.
Encouraged by additional resources,
breeders will increase their breeding farms
and when purchasers find the facilities to
realize are improved, increased sales BY the
breeders will be the result
At the spring meetings given in Ken
lucky annual sales are now held, which
cause the attendance of visitors and buyers
from all over the United States With the
continued increase in the demand for
California bred stock. it will not be long
before sales of like characteristic be inaug-
urated right here in Sacramento, whose
advantages in climate, soil and productions
are acknowledged by all breeders and train
ers OF race-horses to be superior to those of
most airy other section of the State.
The State Society is earnestly in favor of
making additional meetings here perma-
nent success, ard to that end the Directors
and officers have given this subject much
attention, lmbued as they are with public
spirit, and they ask-for the benefit of the
interest they represent, as well as for the
welfare of the community in general-that
the citizens turn out each day of the meet.
ing, assuring them that, if reasonable sue
cess IS met with, increased energy will be
forthcoming in the future on the part of
the State Board, and that from four days
the meetings car be increased to eight.
Experience has shown the officials of the
Society, that by strict attention to details
and systematic management of affairs in
general, it will not require much effort to
make annual spring meetings of as much
importance as those held in the fall
1t was found necessary, for the initial
meeting, to fix the admission at 81, which
entities the visitor to all privileges of the
grand stand and quarter stretch This was
done more for the purpose OF obtaining
donation from individuals who love the
sport and feel inclined to assist the infant
enterprise to get upon its feet than for
any other purpose. The resolution to do
away with complimentary tickets will also
give those who have been favored in the
past IN that particular an opportunity to
reciprocate at time when it will be
most acceptable.
The races on the opening day will COM
pare favorably, in point OF entries and the
character of the horses that will start, with
those of any association of the West. The
total amount to be run for on that day will
be nearly $1,000, which will certainly
bring out large fields of representative
stock. All the principal breeders that are
now running their horses, with the excep-
ton of E. ]. Baldwin, are here repre-
scented, and the produce OF their farms
will be seen each day in the contests.
The Directors have secured the services
of W. II. Coombs, of Napa, for starter.
Mr.. Coombs was quite successful with the
flag at San Jose, and on the last two DAYS
OF the Blood Horse meeting in San Fran.
cisco, and as he intends to make it bust
ness, will do his utmost to discourage long
waits at the post, and at the same time
give the horses fair send-off He is a
gentleman that fully understands the
duties of this arduous position, and is alive
to what is due both the owners and the
public.
Secretary Smith was yesterday notified
that the suspension of the jockeys for
fifteen days by starter Coombs on the last
day of the Blood Horse meeting, for will.
full disobedience of orders, had been by
the association ratified. This should be
valuable lesson for the young knights of
the pigskin who imagine that the public
can be trifed with by long delays at tie
post. 1t is hoped that they will profit by
this experience; but if not, a more severe
penalty may be inflicted in future