The morning call., 1893-08-21
TURF AND TRACK.
Plan to Construct a New
RaCeCOurSe.
Successful Fairs on the State Cir
cuits-COming Sales of La Siesta
and Palo Alto Stock.

Samuel Gamble, the well-known turf
man. has started movement in this city
to build and equip new racetrack that
will equal the best in the East and eclipse
anything of the kind in California. When
he recently suggested the plan to several
men of wealth it met with favor at once.
Only one of those who have signified
willingness to subscribe from 5000 to
$4,000 is a horseman. The others are
capitalists of this city, San Mateo and San
Jose. They approve of the project be-
cause the Investment will be profitable
one.
A site for the track has not yet been
definitely selected. The location that is
most favored, however, is on the marsh of
San Mateo. about a mile and a half from
the Burlngame polo grounds. There 600
acres may be obtained under a twenty
years lease. 1t is the intention of the men
interested to create stock company. elect
reliable men as directors and issue stock.
1t is planned to have two tracks, one for
trOtting and the other for running. Mr..
Gamble says he has little doubt that the
project will be successful. The total cost
of tae track and improvements is estimated
at about $4,000 or S650OO.
The various fairs Oh ine State circuits
are being literally patronizad. Some ex-
cellent speed programmes have been ar
ranged for the weeks meeting that opens
at Petaluma to-day. There are more
horses in training in the State this year
than ever before. the lists OF entries in all
classes are greater. and the fields of start
ers crowd the capacity of the tracks at
every meeting.
There will be a sale of all the thorough
bred vearlings of the Palo Alto farm dur
ing the second week of the Pacific Coast
Blood horse Association's meeting at the
Bay District track. In all there are
tweDty-three royalty bred ones, apd none
will be reserved.
The sale of the La Sesta trUtters will
take place on the Thursday preceding the
opening OF the fall meeting of he Pacific
Coast clearinghouse Breeders AsSOcla-
ton. The sale will take place at the Bay
District track. Among the seven ty-iye
animals to be disposed ot are Eros, Mount
ain Boy, eight brood mares. six producing
dams and number OF valuable young
steTs.
Says the New York Sporting World:
Western advices slate that California
breeder is trying to buy MorelIo. The
price nut on tile colt is said to be $50, 600,
delivery to be made next January.
-Four winners of the American Derby
were Kentucky bred horses, four Califor-
nia-bred horses. and horses bred In Ill-
nois and Tennessee won the other two.
Isaac Murphy rode four winners, Tom
Kiey rode two, and Hamilton, Coving-
ton, Garrison and r. Williams one each.
A local turf paper has the following en-
couraglDg words to say about trotters:
while there are many trottDg horses in
the country. and while there is little activ-
lty in tbe market, the prospects ahead are
good. 1t takes a vast number of tTOtters
TO supply the enormous demands of the
tracks. 1t will take more next year.
There is no American industry that has q
more hopeful future"
A Canadian exchange states that the
rumored new track at Montreal is practI-
cally an assured fact. and that the enter
prise will be backed by American capital.
The approximate value OF the plant will
be $4,000 and will include grand stand
with seating capacity OF 6GO0.
1t is said that device has been invented
for putting out the time on racetrarks
which works like ID type-writing machine
with a keyboard. When the keys are
In front of the stand much more expedi-
tieusly than in the general way of slipping
the mum bers into grooves or hanging them
up.
ST. Louis so far is the only city in Amer
lea which has succeeded in operating
through an extended seas on more than one
racelIack. In May and June there were
three tracks in operation there at one aud
the same time. Through July two were
going all the time. one of them day and
night, and there has been no dearth of
either horses or patronage. With the
opening of the fair grounds track next
Saturday there will be again three race
tracks In operation in the vicinity of St.
Louis and that city will have then a clear
iitle to being the real turf center of the
West.