The San Francisco call., 1910-07-24
RYIE TRACK FACING BRIGHTEST SEASON. SAYS WALTER JENNINGS
EASTERN owners
LOOK THIS WAY
VI any Star Performers on the
Metropolitan Tracks Likely
10 Be Seen Here

According to Walter Jennings, the
coming season at EmeryviIle should
prove 10 be the greatest in the history
Of the track across the bay. The well
known turfman. who took stable to
New York last spring, has returned
and was a visitor in the city yesterday
having come down from his ranch near
Woodland.
Jennings says that more owners are
talking OF making the trip TO the coast
than ever before, and that if the proper
inducements are offered by the New
California jockey club many of the star
performers Of the metropolitan tracks
viii be seen under colors at the Oak
land course. Jennings said that own
ers who had raced at other tracks last
winter were inclined to come west this
fall as they had received encoura gfng
reports Of last season at Emeryville.
5. c. Hildreth who has one of the
strongest stables in the country. is
among those who Jennings thinks will
be well represented
In discussing the situation in New
York, Jennings said that the outlook
was not as serious as it had been
painted in some quarters, and that
many of the turf powers were hopeful
for the future.
1t was his understanding that the
meeting at Sheepshead Bay would open
two days after the close of Saratoga,
and that if there was not too much
interference on the part OF the authori-
ties it would continue after September
/, the date the new laws go into effect.
From his observations and the informa-
ton he had received, Jennings was of
the opinion that the new measures
would be declared unconstitutional
STAYING IN THE GAME
Jennings disposed of the horses he
took TO New York and also of the in
terest he held in those that carried the
colors Of Catesby Woodford. 1t was
announced some time ago that Jennings
was about to retire from the turf and
devote his attention to his alfalfa farm
at Woodland, but he said yesterday
that he left an order TO buy eight
yearlings at the fall sales if the prices
were right. He has four youngsters at
Woodland and viii have them broken
soon. II he secures the yearlings in
entire lot at Emeryville this winter;
otherwise the four California bred
youngsters Will be turned over to John
Givens, who trained for the late ].
Naglee Burk.
Assemblyman Perkins of New York,
In speaking of an article which re-
Gently appeared. stating that racing
would end because Of the Agnew-
Perkins law, said:
There is certainly nothing against
racing on the statute books of the
state of New York. Racing asso
Citations and fairs can hold horse
races and give purses exactly as here
tOfore There is nothing against in
dividual betting, either. The courts
have held that it is no crime to make
individual bets, and l am not opposed
to that any more than / am to horse
racing. And l like TO see a good horse
race. What is prohibited by law is
making a business Of betting with any
one and every one and making that
ones sole business"
Ed Heffner, who raced a stable at
EmeryYille season before last, bid up
two Of r. F. Carman's horses at En-
pire City Monday. Sir Cleges ran a
dead heat with Apologize and Heffner
advanced his price from $500 to $1,005, |
but he was retained, as was Sir AL /
vescot when bid UP from s4OO to S1,005. |
BOhhOM ED fhOm RAO
a well known turfman a few nights |
90 told how the phrase got your goat /
originated He said il was borrowed /
from the racetrack. 1t is the custom /
Of some trainers to place a goat with |
a thoroughbred in training for race.
The diversion that the goat furnishes
the horse is supposed to play a great
part in balancing the animals tempera- |
ment When the time for a race is |
near at hand great care is exercised /
to prevent the horses friend from be- |
ing stolen by hangers on who figure TO
unnerve the racer.
The loss of the goat has been known /
to worry a thoroughbred enough to 1
make him lose race, and so it came
70 be said that when a horse failed |
TO perform up to expectations somebody /
had got his goat
Former Jockey Joe Jones raced Isa-
bel Casse at the minor Pennsylvania |
meetings and the flly won every event
she started in.
The prices asked by breeders for |
vearIings in Kentucky is taken as an |
indication of the confidence held in the |
future of the turf. Charles Van Me-
Ter. who returned TO Louisville after
buying a Nasturtium colt at Lexing
ton, says breeders hold anything like
2 topnotch colt at $4,000, while as
much as $500 is quoted on the most
ordinary looking youngster. Doubt
less the prices received a some of the
New York sales encouraged the
breeders.