The morning call., 1891-01-13
GOOD FOR YEARS YET.
The Bay District Track Is Now
All Right for Racing.

II Director P. Quinlan of the Pacific
Coast Bood-hOrse Association correctly I'M
derstOod the retiring President, Ariel La
throp at the last meeting OF the association
there need be no trouble in looking around
for some time to come for 4 track to hold
the spring and fall meetings at. Mr. La
throp was understood as stating that the
association could have the use of the Bay
District Track for the next two years at
least free Of charge, provided the assOcia-
ton would repair the fences and keep the
track and buildings in order If this un-
derStaniing be correct all the reports that
the track would at an early date be cut up
into building lots are dispelled and the San
Francisco public viii not have to cross the
bay or visit outside towns to see race. MI.
Quinlan states that as soon as President
Burns and Director GunSt have the leisure
a meeting of the association will be held
and proper action taken to make necessary
repairs. The spring programme will also be
made up then and ii Is the intention of the
association u be more than usually liberal
with their purses and handicap money.
The meeting will last seven days and the
date will be set early enough to secure the
attendance OF the leading stables before
they go East.
There are several stables of trotters and
PAGERS now at the track, and when the re-
some races arranged early in the spring for
their benefit.
A meeting Of the Pacific Coast Trotting-
horse Breeders Association Will be called
within the next week, at which the question
OF holding spring as well as a fall meeting
will be considered. Some of the progress
! slve members Of the association strongly IA
Vor spring plOgramme, and will do their
| best in this direction. The fall programm G
! Will also be considered. If the earnest
| n I n 10 az snfh ar
| carry any weight the Breeders Association
Will materially reduce the entrance fee to
their events. This association might well
act as pioneer. In the reduction. a 10-per-
cent entrance is considered by most horse
men as much too high and a heavier tax on
them than they can afford. What til ey hope
for IS 5-per-cent entrance and such re-
ductlon would be amply repaid by ma
terial increase in the number of entries.
But, II they cannot get this, they would ac-
cept 7R-per-cent entrance. il the old fig
ure is maintained, the chances are that its
effects Will be severely felt IN the diminu-
tion Of the entry list.
The latest hitch to the building of Joe
1hompsOn's new race-track out by the
Ocean House is the belief that the proposed
extension of Market street will run right
through where 1t Is now proposed to locate
the track: The Spring Valley Water Com
pany, which controls the land in question,
and which has offered to lease it to rhump-
son Tor seventeen Years, now has surveyors
running out the Market-street extension
line. and if it is found to Interfere with the
location of the track new arrangements will
have TO be made, all of which will consume
more time and retard the opening of the
new course. 1t is stated by those who have
seen the preliminary sketches of the new
race-track buildings that Thompson desires
TO have the grand stand directly facing the
west: This would make it a grand scoop
net for all the fog and wind coming in from
a n J,
and chilly place for spectators to view the
| races from