Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-01
CROP OF BABY
RACERS IS BIG
REMARKABLY LARGE NUMBER
ARE HERE
MORE AND BETTER JUVENILES
THAN EVER BEFORE
Breeders and Owners Ship YearIinss
Of Highly Bred Stock to Coast for
Two-Year-oId Events of the
Winter Season
ny JAY DAVIDSON

BY JAY DAVIDSON
One highly pleasing feature of all
shipments to Santa Anita this fall
from the east is that the prominent
owners are bringing their best horses
across the Rockies to race for the val
liable stakes and purses that will be
offered at the two coast winter tracks.
and another feature which is the source
of congratulation on every side is that
the majority of eastern owners and
breeders are sending the pick of their
yearlings with the older horses. In
fact, the yearlings that will graduate
into the 2-year-old division next New
Years day will be the best bred lot
that ever raced on the coast, and it
is no wild dream of those interested
to hope for another Trance, a Horace
E. or a FiTestone to go back east In
the spring and beat the best 2-year-
olds that will be shown on the metro
politan circuit.
Among the more prominent breed
ers who will show highly bred 2year-
olds at Santa Anita after the turn of
the year are Barney Schrieber, John
e. Madden, Phil Chinn, Woodford &
Buckner Walter b. Jennings, Calm
Bros. r. e. Watkins. Dick Williams,
Lucky" Baldwin, Lawrence & Com
stock and Harry Slower In addition
to these there viii be many yearlings
shown from the breeding farms of
Whitney, Belmont, Keene and Young.
Practically all the great sires of the
day will send their get to the Santa
Anita races
Dick Williams has shown the most
sensational yearling that has been I'M
covered this year on the coast. Che
halls, sired by the imported John F.,
and bred at the Williams ranch in
L. r5.1tra ,n1r-,4 re-
since arriving at Santa Anita that
would win the majority of 2-year-old
races, and because of these workouts,
his exceptionally fine breeding and his
extraordinary size and all-round APP
pearance Williams entertains great
hopes for him. ]. l.. Holland. vice
president of the Los Angeles Racing
association, and one of the best liked
turfmen in America, is a partner with
the Williams boys in the Oklahoma
breeding farm and is a part owner of
Chehalis.
Williams Has Strong Stable
Williams who is the principal owner
of the Pasadena stable, will have
materially improved string this year,
as compared with that which he raced
so SUCCESSFULLY under this firm name
last winter and throughout the sum-
mer season in the west. The stable
consistently led the list of winning
owners at all tracks where its horses
raced during the summer. Prominent
among the horses that Pasadena stable
will send to the post during the Santa
Anita season will be Old Timer, which
did a mile last winter in 1877 As, and
was considered a cinch winner of the
Los Angeles Derby until he went
wrong; La Gloria, the sensationally
fast sprinter that has won twenty-siX
races in about thirty-five starts in her
racing career, and now is better than
ever; Mary F.. a high class platter that
will probably show creditably in al
most any kind of company; l.. C. Wild
rig, a crack mudder and remarkably
speedy over a dry course, and a fine
bunch of highly bred yearlings
Phil Chinn will have about twenty
yearlings, the pick of several Ken
lucky breeding farms. In his lot of
youngsters will be the get of such great
sires as Alloways, Cesarion, Ort
Welles, Filigrane, imp. st. Dory, Odd
fellow and Mazagan. Chinn has
shipped the biggest string to Santa
Anita that he ever brought across the
mountains and it includes twenty-six
horses in training, as well as nearly
that many yearlings. With John Car
roll, Pretension Glenecho, Go Between, |
Chalfonte Madrileno, ]. H. Reed and
several DllltIS dlnlOSi, IL IiOl tluAltY as
good, he will be contender in any
race in which he makes an entry.
schrieber Has Big Bunch
Barney Schrieber, whose Woodlands
stud has become world famous be-
cause it was the breeding home of such
stars of the turf as Nealon, Jack Atkin, |
Horace e., Deutschland. Sylvia Tall
bot Otis and others more or less ia
nous, will have the largest bunch of
yearlings shipped over the Rockies for
the winter season, and he will be great
~ disappointed if he fails to develop
another 2-year-oid star or two. The
get of Sain, Balgowan and Hercules
will be his chief dependence in the
baby races.
Walter r. Jennings, one of the vet
Grams of the turf, expects to develop
another Rosegal out of the likely bunch
that he has stabbed at the Arcadia
course. Jennings never carries an ex-
traordinarily large string around the
country with him, but those that he
campaigns usually find their way out
in front with great regularity.
Sam Hildreth was an extensive buyer
at the down east yearling sales during
the summer, and although he will be
exceptionally strong in the 2 and g.
year-old and the older divisions, he is
not going to be one bit behind other
prominent owners when the baby races
begin New Years afternoon. He has
selected his yearlings with the usual
keen and discriminating judgment that
he always exercises in purchasing
thoroughbreds and it will be surprising
if he fails to be nearly as prominent
q factor in the settlement of the ju-
venile stakes and purse races as in
the other divisions.
Ed Alvey never campaigned string
as strong as that which Grover Baker
has brought over the mountains for