Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-15
STAKE EVENTS
ARE NUMEROUS
TEN FIXTURES ARRANGED FOR
VANCOUVER
MEETING TO BE EXPERIMENT;
BUT MAY BE PERMANENT
Judge Robert Leighton Surrounds
Himself with Capable Officials
Who Have Confidence
Of Horsemen

The stake entry blanks for the forth
coming sixty-day summer meeting at
Victoria were yesterday distributed
among the Santa Anita horsemen by
Judge Robert F. Leighton. Horsemen
who intend racing their stables on the
British Columbia circuit this summer
were greatly interested in the appear
ance of the stake announcements, and
all were pleased TO learn that there
will be lots of opportunity for the bet
ter class OF their strings to pick UP
some purses of value.
All told, there will be ten stakes to
be contested for at the meeting, thus
insuring a. stake race for each week
of the meeting. Two of the events
have. a guaranteed value of $1,000 and
the remainder will be worth $500. The
Victoria derby and the Dominion
handicap are the most valuable
features to be run. The former Is for
three-year- olds exclusively, of course,
upward. The two-year- old racers have
been provided for in the Cesarian
handicap and the Ladies' plate. The
first named Is at five furlongs and the
latter Is a four-furlong dash. The pro-
gram on opening day, June 5, will be
featured by the Opening Day handi-
cap at a mile. The Farewell handicap,
also mile Journey, will conclude the
list of stakes and will be run August
Z, the closing day of the meeting.
Several nominations already have
been made to the stakes. r. L. Thomas
has entered Flying Squirrel in both OF
the juvenile events, and other owners
Of prominence have signifed their in
tention of naming some of their
cracks, If only out Of compliment to
Judge Leighton and the young turf
organization that he represents. While
1t is true that officially 1t has been
announced that the purses offered
daily will not be less than an aggre-
gate of $1,000. 1t is the intention Of the
management to go over this amount
should the attendance at the meeting
warrant doing so.
The Victoria Country club is COM
posed of the highest type of citizen-
ship to be found in British Columbia
and all of the stockholders and direc-
tors are men of standing in their COM
munity. The club undertakes to give
a lengthy meeting this summer, large
ly In the way OF an experiment and
with no intention of garnering large
profits therefrom. In other words. the
club will distribute the profits of the
meeting among the horsemen in the
shape of increased purse values.
Judge leighton is surrounding him.
self with staff of capable officials, in
all of whom he reposes the greatest
trust. Frank ST. ID. Skinner. who
represented the Pacific Jockey club as
presiding steward at the Butte meet
ing last summer, will be associated
with Judge Leighton at Victoria. Sam
McGibben, at present clerk of the
scales at Emeryville. win act in a like
capacity at Victoria Sam is Just as
popular with the Emeryville Jockeys
as our own Percival Pomeroy is with
the Santa Anita riding colony. and
largely on this intimacy a good MANY
OF the Emeryville riders will follow
McGibben to Victoria. Jack Dinue. the
ring captain at Emeryville, win also
be at Victoria. Jack is popular with
all classes, and his selection to act
at Victoria is a good one. The peer
less Dick Dwyer also will be on the
JOB at Victoria, just as soon as he
closes his engagement at the Salt Lake
meeting. Until his arrival Joe Web
Der, his capable assistant, will send
the fields away.