Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
ASCOT PARK IS
PLACE BEAUTIFUL
MANY IMPROVEMENTS ARE
BEING MADE
Flowers Being Planted Along Drive
ways and Roads, and Paddock
Lawn Is Lovely Spot--Track
In Fine Condition

Racegoers will with difficulty be able
to recognize Ascot park when they
Journey to the first days meet Of the
club Thanksgiving day. Capt. Glass
has worked wonders in beautifying the
grounds and making the park more at
tractive to the eye.
Flowers will gladden. the sight at
almost every turn. The lawn in front
of the paddock is in beautiful condition
and flowers are banked all along the
driveway from the quarter pole to the
paddock.
The track, too Is in excellent condi-
tion and will be better this year than
ever before. While this is true, the
trainers now quartered at the track are
not sending their charges around the
turns at any record breaking clips just
yet
Halves In 40 and thereabouts, three
quarters in 1925 and miles in propor-
tion are the average clips logged off
this early in the game.
Nearly 800 horses are now quartered
at the track and others are arriving
daily. A trainload is expected to ar
rive this morning, and Manager James
Woodlawn Brooks is doing more worry
ing nowadays as to where he will place
all the horses that are coming than
from any OCner cause.
Indications are that when the hugle
sounds the first call to the post Novetn-
ber 80 fully 1900 horses will be stabbed
at the track. yellow fever has scared
many horsemen away from New Or
leans and the greater portion of them
will come to Los Angeles.
Fasteners Coming
Many eastern owners are shipping to
Los Angeles and others are expected TO
come later in the season. Among the
cracks assured are Handzarra, Rusk,
Big Ben, oxford and many other
sprinters of high class. With these
horses contesting at Ascot, the pros
poets for shattering the three quarters
and Slauson course records is bright.
E. M. Brattain, the gray crack, and
Kehailian will both be back this sea-
son. as well as others unknown to the
local racegoer.
w. A. Stanton will ship his entire
stable, including Workman, Libertinus,
That's What. Supreme Court. Emperor
of India (Which has two track records)
and several other good ones. j. F'itz-
simmons will train and Jockey Miller
will pilot the colors.
Jockey Miller has made good with a
vengeance on the eastern tracks the
past season and his wonderful riding
has caused many wise horsemen to pre-
dict a brilliant career for the Brooklyn
S7-pounder.
Jockies Burns, McDaniels, Lawrence
Sewell, Wiley, Dugan, Davis, Perrine
Hogg, Moriarity, Swain, Ralph Murphy
and a host of other top-notch riders
will sport colors during the next meet
With the east literally represented by
many of it's prominent owners and
thoroughbred horses, with their high
salaried iockies, the prospect of sue
cessful season was never brighter.
The stable of A. B. Spreckels has
several speedy ones, but the names are
unknown to the clockers. A few morn
ings ago bay colt and a chestnut
flly reeled off quarter in :23 fiat with
out being extended to any great degree.
The railbirds caught another chestnut
s'streak" with blazed face and three
white feet as it clipped off quarter in
:221a Friday morning. There was great
excitement among the clockers until
the unknown speed marvel disappeared
and it is safe to predict that when this
one starts the works will be down on
her to a fraction.