The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-11
OAKLAND SEASON
 HAS B|G OPENING ProspectsSplendid ForExcelIent
 Sport YEAR ROUND RAClN G Oakland Has Only Woman Trainer, Miss Quick-What She Doesn't
 Know About Horses Is
 Worth Nothing.
YEAR ROUND RACIN G
BY J. S. A. MACDONALD.

San Francisco, November 1O.-(SpeciaL)- Williams park at Oakland, Cal, got away under running start for the long win ter campaign yesterday. A more nu- merous bookmaking contingent, a greater amount of money and certainly larger attendance marked the inaugural days racing than an Oakland first day ever enjoyed before. This augurs well for the coming winter. In fact, turfmen generally agree that this is going to be the finest winter meeting which California has ever known. The crowds, the money, the good class horses the bookmakers and the players are all here, and you know this spells rollicking good racing. In 1906 the new California Jockey club conducted racing from the early days of November right up to June 22 so that it is not an improbable contingency that President Williams and his associate magnates of the coast country may make of the California field an 'all -year-round" affair. The Petaluma meeting last sum- mer sent the game along for almost three parts of the way. so that in the light of the present prosperity of the sport and the apparent demand of San peOplc TOT dHu IotS UT it, you will be able to get some of the sport every day in the season of 1908 and live in San Francisco. Of course, this is a little early for a prognostica- ton of this sort, but from the way things started off today one could hardly get away from the idea.
 The course was crowded while the ring ran wild in small money" the sort in which the old line. conservative book makers like to deal. Any way you want to look at it the game here is bit stronger than that at New Orleans Win ter racing at both points has come on about 25 per cent in the last two years. One thing sure about the current meet ing here is that Sam Hildreth holds q whip hand in most of the big stakes. Uncle will not be raced through the winter, TIildreth believing that so high class @ 2-year-oid is worth saving for 3-year-old campaigning in the east. How ever. do not overlook Tony Faust. This colt has thickened and matured through the past summer in wonderful degree. There is no better specimen of the thor oughbred out here on the Oakland quar- ter-stretch than this same Tony Faust. In the handlcaps through December and January he'll be worth consideration in any sort of company. The Planudes colt Meelck will be one of Hildreths useful mediums, while there is the lilly Gene Russell. probably the best mud sprinter among the 2-year-old Allies in training today. Hildreth has s100oO0 worth of horses, and according to his own state ment a few days ago. he is going to win out the cost of his horses before next March Horse players off the scene may bear in mind that the Oakland course is faster and harder than 1t was year ago, due to a summer of careful treatment. Recent catastrophes have in no wise left dispiriting influence on the sporting community. for everything is going along now after the manner of the proverbial marriage bell'
 Oakland has real novelty this sea son. This is woman trainer. Miss Emma Quick is the name of a young California girl, daughter of Dad" Quick, oldtime and much respected horse
 man, who understands the practical man. agement of a racing stable in a greater degree than many s10000 gallop grounds boss working for the millionaires of the New York turf. She enjoys the dis tinction of being the only woman trainer of thoroughbreds in this country. In England, Mrs. Brashear Cannon. a rela- tive or tle JOChey Ol tndt HdIlle, lidS been long a successful handler of race horses. while there are one or two women professionally engaged directing light harness stables over the Grand Circuit. However. Miss Quick is the only one of her sex actually training thoroughbred race horses today. She will campaign quite handy string here this winter, with Jack Richelieu, Myrtle Knight, Badge Holder and Martinoc as her stars. Miss Quick appears every morning at the Emeryville course just as the stable hands are getting their last yawn. After an inspection of quarters and an inquiry of her foreman as to the condition of the horses those racers selected for work are trotted out Miss Quick and the foreman confer as to the character of exercise best suited for this horse and that horse. Also the stake in the meet ing book. for say, Myrtle Knight to point up to- is picked out. Miss Quick helps in the instruction of the jockey as to the pace he must observe in the trial gallop.