Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-07
ASCOT STABLES
FILLING RAPIDLY
TH0R0UGHBREDS ARE ARRIV-
ING DAILY
Unprecedented Demand for Accommo-
dations Swamp Management
and Season Promises
Well

Ascot park is rapidly developing in
to very busy place and by tonight
the number of horses and horsemen at
the track will have been doubled.
The first special from the east is
due to arrive this morning and will
bring about two hundred horses from
Jamaica. And each day for the last
week struggling strings of thorough
breds have arrived. The latest string
to come in is that of Joseph James,
the Canadian horseman, who brought
seven from the northeast country yes
terday,,
James has Luckett, Silver Wedding
and Wee Lass and four yearlings
James has the distinction of having
developed the unbeaten Descuento,
which started seven times and won
all of them. Descuento defeated Ok
ford and many other eastern cracks
before his untimely death, which oc-
CURED at Memphis recently.
Jockeys are also showing up and
before the end of the week the Ascot
colony will be further increased by the
arrival of crack riders from all parts
of the country.
Jockey Louis Kunz got in yesterday
from Louisville after a successful sea-
son upon the Canadian tracks. Kunz
will have the mounts for the Moor
mead stable which will race at Ascot
this winter.
Many New Arrivals
C. Reiff was another arrival. Reiff
at one time in his career was the
premier jockey in America and while
riding for Jas. McCafferty in the east
in 1896 made a record which stood until
last year. During 1896 Reiff rode 292
winners. Last year Hildebrand rode
29S winners, but he had double the
number of mounts as compared with
Reiffs successful year.
ReiT owns d ranch in Kansas and
had decided to retire from the turf, but
the approach of the winter racing sea-
son aroused his weakness for the pig
skin and he was unable to resist the
temptation to get into harness again.
He will ride in steeplechase events at
Ascot this season
There are stalls for the accommoda-
ton of one thousand horses at Ascot,
but Manager Brooks asserts that he
has applications for more than this
number already on file and each day
brings in further applications. He Is
considering the necessity of enlarging
the quarters and increasing stable
room to accommodate the eXtraor-
dinary number of horses which will be
shipped to the local track this winter.
Every day witnesses the arrival Of
punches of horses and with those al
ready on the road and already as
signed, Manager Brooks has his
think cap filled with visions of S. r..
o. sign unless immediate steps are
taken to increase the stabling capacity
of the track.
The demand for stable room is un-
precedented and bears out the pre-
dictions made earlier in the year that
the winter season on the coast would
eclipse all other years in point of num-
ber of horses and horsemen in at
tendance at the meeting.
Vast improvements have been made
at the track and the regulars will not
recognize the surroundings when the
gates are thrown open Thanksgiving
day. The summer housecleaning pro-
cess has worked wonders in brighten
ing the infield and the driveways are
banked with flowers, and everything
has been given a new dress all around.
Hal Booker will ship all of his horses
to Ascot from Latonia, and j. Booker
and A. w. Booker, the jockeys, broth
ers of the horseman, will ride for the
stable.
Willie Hennessey, the crack jockey
will be among the riders at Ascot this
season, being under contract to Joseph
James, whose stable is already at AS
cot.
]. L. McGinniss and his stable OF
good ones will be on the coast this
winter, and will race a portion of his
string at Ascot. Among his good ones
is Chimney Sweep, which he recently
acquired.