Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-22
THE APRIL RACES.
PROMISING OUTLOOK FOR THE COMING
SPRING MEETING.
Horses in Training for the Several Events
-Sacramentans' Opportunity
to Help the City.

The return of the Sacramento racers from
the Pacific Coast Blood Horse meeting,
where they shared the honors with some
of the best horses in the State, by winning
a number of the rich events, created some
attention at the Park yesterday. De
Poister gathered in two rich stakes with
AL Farrow, one with Sheridan and another
with Longshot. Storms was successful with
Kildare, and Dennison captured twenty
to-one race with Dave Douglass. All in
all, the Sacramento contingent did well, as
they usually do. At these spring meetings
the Sacramento trained horses usually cap.
ture the lions share of stakes and purses.
The horsemen in general speak of Sacra-
mento's new departure, in enlarging the
spring meeting, in most favorable terms,
and report the prospects for & large attend.
ance at the coming meeting as excellent.
The dates, unfortunately, clash with those
of the Odd Fellows picnic, but this was
unavoidable, as the meeting could not have
been set later, owing to the opening of the
Louisville meeting on May 18th. Conse-
quently, to insure the attendance of the
not possible to set other dates.
The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society have let the betting
privileges to the Pacific Coast Book Makers
Association, and they will conduct three or
four books in addition to the auction pools.
The stables of Palo Alto and Hon. L. j.
Rose arrived last night with twelve TO
fourteen head of racers each.
The running and training tracks are both
reserved from the public from now until
after the meeting, and will be kept for the
use of the gallopers.
With over one hundred head of race
horses taking their morning exercise, the
grounds present a lively appearance, not
unlike the congregation at the State Fairs
The coming meeting, which opens on
Saturday next, will be Sacramento's op-
portunity to demonstrate the fact that her
citizens are alive to the city's interests.
They should endeavor to secure as large
an attendance on each of the four DAYS
racing as possible, for the success OF future
meetings may depend largely upon the re-
suit of the initial one. If these spring
meetings can be successfully inaugurated-
and there is no reason why they should
not-they will prove great card for Sacra-
mento in the future, and this will be made
the racing center of the entire Pacific
coast.
1t looks now as if the best horses that
will show up on the Eastern tracks this
summer will be those from California only
few of which have already left US. The
better the meetings are attended here the
larger will be the purses hung up, and
horse owners will defer sending their
cracks East until they shall have first con-
tested here in the spring events, and the
result will be that great crowds will come
from far and near to enjoy racing events as
attractive as any offered in the country. 1t
is safe to say, even now, that the coming
races, if they were to be run over one of
the great Eastern tracks. would each day
attract al attendance of from 10000 to 30
900 people.
The introduction of the popular system
OF book-betting will doubtless prove to
have been wise step on the part of the
State Agricultural Society, as it will give
the meeting feature of all Eastern charac-
ter. With good weather, these races should
be well patronized, and-as before re-
marked-Sacramentans should do their
full share in that direction.