The San Francisco call., 1904-07-02
HARNESS RAGING
PROSPECTS GOOD
The Starters CHEEKY "ScOre
With the Pole Horse" Will
Soon Strike the Ear

Everything seems favorable for
short but brilliant season of harness
racing this year in California. The
circuit will open at Pleasanton on the
9th. Nearly 200 horses have been
named in the different trotting and
pacing events that make up four
days programme. The week follow
ing this meeting at Pleasanton the
horses will be at the San Jose track
for four days, where the annual meet
ing of the Breeders Association is to
be held and the rich $4,000 Futurity
will be decided. Thence they will!
move to Vallejo for meeting of the
same duration; thence to Santa Rosa,
where they will close a four days
meeting on Saturday, August 20. and
be ready to move the next day to Sac
ramento, where the State Fair will open
a two|weeks meeting with the Occi-
dent stake for three-year-o trotters.
This will be worth more than $4,000 this
year
More than $4,000 in purses and
stakes will be decided before this
short circuit is over. From Sacra-
mento many of the leading stables
will go north to compete for some
large stakes given by the Oregon State
Fair at Salem.
Great interest centers in the 2:24
class trotting events for which the
breeders and the State Fair have hung
up $4,000, the Santa Rosa meeting
$500, Pleasanton $1,000 and Vallejo
$1,000. The high class mare Sonoma
Girl is entered in the majority of
these events, but negotiations are on
for her sale to an Eastern party for
large sum. If sold she will be i'm
mediately shipped East and will not
compete on the coast tracks this year.
This will leave the race an open one
in which the winner will be hard for
even the wise ones to pick. Among
those entered in these trots are Mar
tin Carter's chestnut stallion, G, by
Nutwood Wilkes, which has trotted
a quarter in 80 seconds; a Santa Rosa
horse called r w P, now in ]. w.
Zibbell's string and spoken of as a
coming wonder; H. c. Ahler's Tele-
pone, by Direct which has worked a
mile in 2:13; Robert Burress' Golden
Gate, by Bay Bird, which has beaten
2:15 three times in workout at Pleas
anton, and horse from Eureka called
Morosco, which can show a 2:10 gait
If one horse proves good enough to
win all the races of this class on the
circuit he will earn about $4,000.
There are many flyers among the
green PAGERS also and 2:10 will proba-
bly, be beaten the first time they get
the word. Billy Red, a bay gelding
owned by j. d. Springer of Pleasanton,
stepped the last half of that track in
1:o1 several weeks ago. He will be
sure starter at Pleasanton, barring
accidents.
| The great trainer Budd Doble may be
seen in the sulky during the breeders
meeting at San Jose. He is not train
| ing a string of horses for the circuit
but he will be asked to show his great
| trotter Kinney Lou, 2:0794, one day of
! the meet.
The 2:10 class pace is expected to be
one of the greatest races ever seen in
California. This class of PAGERS will
meet the first time at Pleasanton, and
the following is the list of those which
will line UP for the word: ANA A.
2:1314, Kelly Briggs 2:10A, Polka Dot
! 2:14A, Alone 2:09A HighbaIl 2:12A, 70
lock 2:1014, Dictatress 2:O9%, Daedalion
2:11, Edwin S 2:14A, Toppy 2:1O, Delphi
2:12A and Cuckoo 2:13A. This is hot
company and there is not a horse in it
but can beat his record.
Los Angeles has announced a harness
meeting for November. A new associa-
| tion has been organized and a first
! class programme is to be given soon
: The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse
Breeders Association at its annual
meeting, held last week. elected the fol-
lowing new board of directors: E. p.
Heald, president; ]. C. Kirkpatrick.
| first vice president; F. H. Burke, sec
| ond vice president; A. B. Spreckels, T.
J. Crowley, l. l.. Borden, G. A. Durfee.
A. ]. Molera, James Coffin. George w.
| Kingsbury and Robert S. Brown. Cap
| tain n. t. Smith was elected treasurer
and F. w. Kelly secretary. The asso-
| citation is in flourishing condition,