Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-11

n RESPECTS are excellent for slow
track this afternoon at Santa
Anita, but if old Sol comes out
nicely this morning and his face is not
clouded during the day. the track will
dry out fast and the mudders will not
have things their own way. Further
rains, however, will keep it in poor
condition, and the mudhens will have
the call. Horsemen filled the card for
today with their selling platers capable
of negotiating bad routes, owing to the
track conditions Saturday, but a few
horses that prefer pasteboard going
are in the various events, and regard
less of track conditions the form should
be definite. Blue Monday will have no
feature events, but the card will be
just as interesting to the regulars be-
cause the fields are large enough to
stand for liberal scratches and yet fur
nish excellent guessing contests with
the bookies Horses of good class, the
best of the selling platers on the coast,
will furnish the nearest approach to
feature event in the fourth race, when
ten fair zones will go over the mile
journey at the risk Of being boosted
or claimed afterward. Animus, Red
Gauntlet, Hasty Agnes, Rapid Water,
John Carroll, Mark Antony II, Car
thage, Center Shot, Capt. Burnett and
Alma Boy make up the field. All these
horses run equally well in any going,
and track conditions should not affect
form much here. There will be plenty
to interest those who attend the races
for the sports sake, too.
The stake feature this week will be
the Covina selling stake, worth about
$2700 gross. It will be run over g. route
Of a mile and f1ve-sixteenths, the first
race at that distance ever run at Santa
Anita, and seventy-four horses are
eligible to the event. In addition to this
event there will be four $500 overnight
affairs and two $500 handicaps. The
fourth races today and tomorrow are
$500 affairs, and the following handi-
caps are docekted for the other days:
FL Compo handicap, worth $500, at six
and a half furlongs, Wednesday; Pas
qualito handicap, worth $500, at one
mile, Thursday; ROsemead handicap,
worth $500, at five and a half furlongs,
and the Old Badly handicap, worth $500,
at nine furlongs, are down for decision
Saturday. The offering for next Satur-
day is unusually good, with a stake and
two handicaps to feature the card.
J. L. Holland is very proud of the
record that was made last year at
Santa Anita, and which is being more
than duplicated this season. He says
that in all his years OF. experience on
the turf he never attended a meeting
where horses performed with greater
regard for form and where horsemen
were running their horses more regu-
larly right up to their best notches.
Both meetings enjoy the distinction Of
being unusually free of startling form
reversals and deserved criticism. Hol-
land is proud of the fact that he is so
prominently identified with Santa
Anita and it's successes.
It is reported that Ryan, the king of
New York, is to buy a racing stable
of the best class of horses for the next
metropolitan season and, inasmuch as
he is the one man of all others who
is charged directly with assassinating
the sport of kings in the Empire state
and yet retains some magic power
over the legislature and governor, ac-
cording to wise horsemen from New
York, it is believed that he will give
Lkhe word that racing shall be resumed