The San Francisco call., 1905-06-10
BREEDERS PLAN
AN INNOVATION
viii Try on the Harness
Turf a Feature Long in
Use With ThOrOughbreds
STATE FAIR MEETING
Programme Provides for One
Weeks Racing With Three
TrOtting Events Daily

Ihe programme OF harness racing
which Secretary Albert LindIey OF the
California State Agricultural Society
has announced for the State Fair in
September provides for six days rae
ing. with three harness events each
day
The trotting classes are. free-for-aIl,
sse0; 2:Ie class, sTO0; 2:i5 class, s7o0;
2:lS class. $500; 2:24 class, $500; 2:S0
class, $600. For the pacing horses are
the free for-sll, sSe0; 2:0s class, $500;
2:13 class, $500; 2:1S class, $500; 2:20
class. $500: 2-35 class. $500. There are
also three big trotting stakes for
three -year-oIds-the Occident, Stanford
and Stallion stakes. worth from s120e
10 $4,000 each.
Nearly $4,000 will be distributed
among the winners at this meeting.
Entries for these races will close July
10.
new feature of the programme will
be two selling races, one for trotters
and one for PAGERS. Nothing of the
kind has ever been tried before on a
trotting track, although the Breeders
Association has put a race of this char
acter on its Fresno programme. In
these races, which are for $500 purses,
horses are entered TO be sold for $500.
The winner is put up at auction and
all over the entered price is equally di
vided between the association and the
owner Of the second horse Any horse
IN the race may be claimed for $500
plus the amount of second money.
Should the winner be sold his owner
VIII receive first money, which is $3.50,
and $500. the selling price, making
$3.50 in ALL IL is thought these selling
races will give owners of the slower
horses an opportunity TO race them
without being compelled to meet the
fast green ones that are worth up in
the thousands, although without rec
ords
Entries for the breeders meeting at
Fresno viii close Thursday next, the
18th inst Ten thousand dollars is Of
fered in purses for JrOtters and PAGERS.
the largest stake being $500 for trot-
tiers OF the e-2f class. The track at
Fresno is one Of the best and fastest
IN the State and is in almost perfect
shape for record breaking. The citi
zens Of Fresno raised a bonus OF $500
To induce the breeders to hold their
meeting at the raisin center.
Deaver's big meeting opens next Sstur-
day. TIE runners will occup.- the prin-
cipsl portion of the daily programme. but
there are two harness events each day
and many fast trotters and PAGERS viii
race there. Word comes from there that
Bon Voyage ". A Clark il 5 three
ycar-old trotter, is showing two-minute
speed and looking like a champion Mr..
Clark bought Bon Voyage for $4,000 just
after the colt had won the two-year-old
division of the kentucky Futurity last
year and taken a record Of 2:l5. Bon
Noyage started three times in his two
year-old form, First in the Horse RevieT
Stake at Cincinnati, which he won in
straight heats in 2:17% and 2:l5s4. beating
The Phantom (Which James Butler after
ward boughD, and five others; next in
the Kentucky Futurity, where he beat
katherine L ano seven others in straight
heats In 2:I5 and 2-I5k, and the third
time, week later, when Jack Axworthy
beat him IN straight heats in 2:l5h and
a:16Ik. Charles Marvin. the veteran reins-
man that was formerly at Palo Alto.
bred. trained and drove the colt TO his
record and believes he should be "a great
three year-old. When Bon Voyage was
working at Los Angeles this spring he
was not the best gated colt in the world,
but improved greatly before leaving for
Denver, and IL is now reported that he is
trotting like q winner for Ted Hayes. On
Wednesday Of last week Mr.. Hayes drove
him the last quarter OF a slow mile in
thirty seconds fat by his own watch,
while such experienced timers as Joe
Gavin and Joe Mstty caught the quarter
In 29st seconds Bon Voyage is well
staked and will make his first start in
the Hartford Futurity. then in the Horse
Review Stake at Cincinnati, and the
Kentucky Futurity at Lexington.
The recent sale of trotters held in
Boston by the Fasig-Tipton Company
was not encouraging 20 breeders who
snip horses TO the Eastern markets
Those sold did not bring any higher
prices than would have been paid for
them here in California. Two McKfn-
ney hliieS taken to the sale by James
Thompson of Pleasanton brought but
$3.50 and 1925, which is no more than
could have been obtained for them
here, without the expense of transpor-
tation to Boston, which is quite a sum.
Horse values are as good in California
as anywhere else in the United States
at the present time. with the possible
exception Of high-class racing pros
poets, and Eastern buyers are perfect
ly willing to buy any real prospect
here. trusting TO experts Of their own
choosing TO report on the horses
T. ]. Crowley of this city, who is one
of the directors Of the Trottin Horse
Breeders Association, is out with an
offer 10 renew the Crowley stake which
was inaugurated last year This is
side stake of SIS each for colts and
fllies that start in the Breeders Fu-
turity- Last years Crowley stake had
value of S675, and it is thought the
one OF this year will reach $1,000