Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-26
RLALTO GOSSIP
BY Jay Davidson

Mt UNDERSTANDING the adverse
legislation which has put racing
~ in such a precarious condition IN
the last two years, Santa Anita ranch
continues to be one OF the greatest
breeding farms for thoroughbred rae
ing stock in the United States. Buy
ers from all parts of the country have
visited the ranch in the last month TO
look over the yearlings and two-yeaT-
olds there and several purchases have
been reported. Al Goodin reports that
the crop of youngsters now at the
ranch in charge of superintendent
| Lowen Tucker is better than in other
years and looks more promising. There
| are several good looking ones by old
Emperor of Norfolk, who died last
year, and by Rey ell Santa Anita and
Vesuvian All these colts are being
| held at stiff prices and yet are finding
a ready market, which attests the pop
uIarity of the breed turned out at the
Los Angeles county ranch.
Horsemen and others interested in
turf affairs were pleased yesterday to
note the fact that w. w. Finn has re-
signed his office as manager of the
Salt Lake City meeting. The changes
insisted upon by President Tom Will
liams of the Pacific Jockey club in
spire horsemen and others with the
belief that the ''bush" circuit for 1910
will be materially improved in the
sport afforded and in the form OBJ
| served.
Happy" Hogan could not get away
to attend the meeting of the Coast
league magnates in Frisco and Col j.
rvsa faf
non club, held the proxy of Eddie
Maier. the Vernon representative on
the board Hogan is too busy getting
together team that will win the
Coast league pennant to fool away his
time in diplomatic exercise.
Judith" Campbell, the cigar mer-
chant of other days, was in Los An
geles yesterday on one of his annual
visits to civilization. He now owns
large ranch thirty-five miles from
Santa Monica and the same distance
from nowhere, and seldom gets to the
bright lights He learned of the john
SON Burns fight in Australia when he
arrived yesterday, and wondered If
Johnson ever would come back to
America and challenge Jeffries. The
moss slowly dissolved, and after few
hours Of close contact with civilization
he was down-to-date again. Judith is
good kid, and is doing nicely on the
ranch, but says it has been so long
since he heard the racket of city
streets that he is almost deaf with
silence and quietude.
Ed Trotter, well known to patrons
of the turf in the good old days around
st. Louis and Chicago, is acquiring
classy string of selling platers by the
claiming and boosting route at jack
sonyille. He now has Cowen, Eye
bright and DR.. Holzberg, all claimed
or boosted into his barn, and is ne
gotiating with Jockey CAM for his
services. Trotter once owned and
raced one of the classiest strings in
the middle west.
Jockey Glass no longer is an APP
prentice rider, his allowance and
license expiring a week ago. He is
under contract to Andy Blakely and is
showing form good enough to entitle
him to rank with the best Of them at
Emeryville.
Ben Cabell assistant secretary Of
the Texas state fair, and who fathered
the anti-bookmaking bill that put rae
ing out of business in the Lone Star
state, is advocating the substitution of
a state racing commission to super
wise Texas racing in future and the
repeal of the anti-bookmaking act, so
as TO leave it with the commission
whether betting of any nature will be
permitted there. Bits, with this OBJ
iect in view, win be offered at the next
session of the Texas legislature
Silverskin, the long distance runner
that was such a sensation at Santa
Anita the first season, was among
those burned in barn fire at Knox
Vile, Tenn, last week. Artful Dodger
and Joe Pugh also were burned to
death. SiIversl1in was a gray gelding,
6 years old, and was owned by DR.. j,
r. Burkhart Of Rock Island, ILL., No
insurance was carried.
The lengthy race meetings last year
at Vancouver and Victoria will not be
tried again this year. 1t is planned