Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-23
WORK WILL
BE RUSHED
MEN AND TEAMS ENGAGED TO
LABOR AT ARCADIA
Stake Book Which Probably VIII Be
of the Press Today elbows Four
teen Rich Events on the
Program

worle on the track at Santa Anita
mark. the site for the new plant of the
Los Angc .es Racing association, VIII be
pursued with renewed vigor this morn
ing. when superintendent Allen VIII put
all the men and teams he can secure on
the lob of leveling and filling the broad
reaches of Baldwin acres.
1t will be no easy task to get Things
in shape for the December opening, but
Allen, who is the best man In his line
in the country, has promised to complete
his task, and no one doubts his ability
to keep his word. scarcity of laborers
and teams held the work up last week,
but the track builder has remeG-ed TINS
and will have things running in full
blast either today or tomorrow.
Carpenters have already started on the
building which will be used as construc-
ton Headquarters, and those who visited
the lakewood inn yesterday saw an al
most completed structure. Secretary
Randle win not leave the associations
offices in the Douglas building, but SUI
perintendent Allen and his host of en-
gineers will receive callers right on the
site of the work.
All hope of building permanent grand
stand by opening day has not been given
up and today Allen will know definitely
whether steel for the structure will be
available in time to complete the big
lob. 1t is hardly probable that anything
but WOODEN stand can be put up, but
this will be made as handsome as pos
sible and will in no wise be anything
but nice feature of the plant.
Lumber Is Ordered
Lumber, grading implements and the
rest OF the paraphernalia necessary to
the camp have been ordered, and the
shipments will begin today. Everything
will go to Arcadia in carload lots, and
the spur tracks of the railroads and
Pacific Electric will be strung along with
cars for quite ways.
| In all probability the stake book for
the inaugural meeting will be off the
press today, and the work of sending the
| information east to horsemen at other
tracks will be undertaken at once. Four
| teen stakes have been mentioned and
over $4,000 will constitute the added
moneys to the features.
Jack Atkin has been in charge Of the
naming of the big races, and the result
of his work is as follows:
Pomona handicap seven furlongs. $500 added
Vernon selling stakes, one mile, $500 added
Garvanza handicap one mile, $500 added
Gardena selling stakes, one mile, $500 added
Rose selling stakes, one and one-eighth miles,
$4,000 added.
Ventura handicap. one and one-eighth miles,
$500 added.
Santa Anita handicap, and one-quarter
miles, $500 added
Los Angeles Oaks, mile, $500 added.
California handicap, one and one-quarter
miles, $500 guaranteed.
Woodlands stakes, four furlongs, $500 added
Los Angeles Derby, one and one-quarter
miles, $4,000 guaranteed.
Santa ARa stakes four and one-half furlongs,
$500 added.
Norfolk stakes, four miles, $4,000 added.
Colin stakes. five furlongs, $500 added.
Two Exceptional Features
II all these races are run as now carded
the new track will have two features of
exceptional worth to the horsemen who
race in winter. These are the California
| handicap, with guaranteed value of
$500 and the Los Angeles derby, having
value of at least $1,000. The handicap
is exceeded in value, so far as coast
racing is concerned. only by the Burns
handicap, while the derby is not far
behind the other feature.
Lucky Baldwin's celebrated horse En-
peror of Norfolk, will be on the programs
to perpetuate his memory in the shape
of the Norfolk stakes, an event similar
to the Thornton stakes at Emeryville.
Four mile races are few and far between
in these days, and as a rule the class
which goes to the post is nothing much
but the event will serve to fill in the
book and may attain degree of popu-
larity which it does not now possess.
In addition to the regularly carded
stakes of extra value overnight handi-
caps and purse races will be run from
time to time, having from $500 to $1,000 as
the prize to the winner and the other
two money horses. The minimum purse
will be $500, and these will be for selling
events only. T
The length of the first meeting has not
been decided on, but it will probably run
about hundred days.