The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
A NEW ERA IN RACING.

With the opening of Ingleside Park to-
morrow new era in the history of horse
racing in California will be inaugurated.
Brilliant as that sport has been with US IN
the past it will be more brilliant in the
future. Hitherto we have sent noble
horses to compete on Eastern tracks and
hereafter Eastern horses will come to us.
The renowned contests on the tracks OF
New York and Chicago, where the greatest
horses III America meet, will be repeated
here; and with the advantages of our
climate on the side of the racers 1t is more
than likely the best records there will be
broken at Ingieside.
1t was no light undertaking TO provide a
track and arrange for purses and condi-
tions that would induce Eastern men TO
send their costly high-bred horses across
the continent to enter our races? Some
Eastern horses have indeed been brought
out in the past, but the results have not
been encouraging to the owners OF the
finest racers, and consequently the win
ners OF great Eastern events have
not come to us. The reason of
this has been the inadequate arrange
ments hitherto provided for horses at
our tracks. The new park attr acts horses
from the East because it supplies every
thing that can be desired. The full de-
scription published in THE CALL shows it
TO be in all of its equipments one of the
finest tracks in the world, and, in point of
beauty of situation and climatic advan-
tages, unrivaled.
That the opening of the park will give a
lnuv inn To in Col npnya &c
made certain by the fact that more than
80 Eastern horses have already been en-
tered for the present meeting.
1t is not racing only, however, that
will be stimulated by the new enter
prise. 1t will promote also the breeding
of fine horses and advance that industry
which already ranks among the most use
full and the most profitable ? in the State.
From the great breeding stables strains of
pure blood go forth to mingle with that of
horses used for other purposes than rae
ing, and as these are improved by the in
fusion of the more vigorous blood the
standard of all horses in the State is event
ually raised. The increase in the gen.
eral wealth by this improvement
in the quality of horses cannot
be exactly calculated, but it is certainly
very great. A thousand benefits result
from il to all who use horses in any way,
and in the widest and best sense, there
fore. the opening of the new track may be
accounted public benefit.
In the very nature of things enterprises
of this kind can be undertaken only by
tie rich, and they are to be ranked,
therefore, among the advantages human
ity gains from stored-up wealth. 1t
has required many years, much
money, tireless patience and close, keen,
scientific study and skill to breed the
thoroughbred domestic animal of to-day
from the ordinary stock that was known a
century ago. In the task OF doing this the
enterprise of millionaires and the work of
earnest men have combined. Nor is it
the animal only that has improved. Man
has improved with him. We have be-
come more sympathetic with the brute
creation. There is less cruelty TO
animals than there was and less
ignorance of animal nature. Morally
and intellectually, as well as financially,
men have advanced through their
fondness for high-bred horses. 1t is there
fore in every way matter of congratula-
ton that this industry, already so far
advanced in the State is to take another
step forward. and that San Francisco,
among her other institutions, which she
can Justly claim to be the equal to any in
the world, can point to the superbly
equipped TT ack at Ingleside Park.