The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
s1O,OOO STAKE
 AT TIA JUANA Round Million Offered Winter Race Season
 Winners

TIA JUANA, Aug. 2S. Offering a matter of $100,000 in stakes and an- other $900,O00 in purses-a round mil; lion all told--for 100 days or more of racing that will begin Thanksgiving Day coming, the Tijuana Jockey club, of which James w. Coffroth is the direct ing genius, has advertised the most ann bilious program ever put out for an American winter meeting of thorough breds.
 The Coffroth handicap, the banner attractioh of winter racing at the Mex ican course that lies just over the line that divides lower California from ups per California, will have for its sixth running an added money value of $5O,- 0O0, an advance of $10,O00. With a field of normal strength competing it will pay its winner somewhat more than $54,00O, the first four horses at the finish about $65,OO0. This sixth Cof- froth will be the richest race for horses years old and over that will ever have been decided on the North Ameri- can continent. March 30 last theN fifth Coffroth attracted a. field of IS and the late Adolph Spreckles Runstar. a 5-year-old Californian bred son of Run. nymede, he the sire of the brilliant Norwich, Kentucky Derby winner of 1922, earned $43, ,050 when lie defeated Osprey, Cherry Tree and Exterminatof after a furious drive that began hall mile from the finish.
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 The Coffroth of 1922 was a S3O.OO0 added money race. Commander ]. K. IL Ross hebuke, its winner, earned $20,. 4I5 when he licked Adonis and Super. cargo and b others. The Coffroths Of l92l and 1922 won, respectively by Be Frank and Mulciber, were $20,. OOO. races. The Coffroth of 1925 will be revived Sunday, March 29.
 The Tijuana Derby gallop of one mlie and furlong for 3-year-olds. an added money race of $10, 900 last spring that paid its winner, Commander Ross Maaryiand bred colt, Deep Thought, SIP. OoO, Will have an added money value ot $l0,OOO next March. The reward or the successful contestant will be about $11,OOO. The Tijuana cup. a gallop of two miles for 3-year-olds and over, will be increased $5,0OO in added money and yield $16,000 to $I7.OOO to the distance runner that gets down in front. The cup will be renewed in April. Last springs Tijuana cup win. ner,swas won by Little Chief, Mary. land bred son of Wrack and Medors t1e lowered the Pacific coast record for two miles to 5 :42 flat when, under tbt SILKS of l. B. Humphrey of Denver. he oefeated Cherry Tree, Lady Astor. Blar. neystone, Piff, Jr., Paula Shay. Vie. torle, Louis and Abadane. The ri. Juana futurity, sprint of four fur. lengs and half for 2-year-olds of botb sexes, a $7,500 added money affair in 1S<S and 1924, will have an added money value of $10,00O next spring sts winner winner will take down about %l<,oVO. Winning last spring, Tiiuana Inturity William Daniels imnbrted coIt master Charities defeated his stable com. panion. the Maryland bred Socrate iI iIAe 4slttie Chief, product of VII. nam " Woodward's Belair stud, and earn. ed M a few hundred dollars more fhan 9g;VOO. The other Tijuana annuaIs VIII pc increased in proportion.
 Amazing Development
 Ine development of Tijuana racins m tne eight or ten years of MT. CoF. !oth management has been an amnz lng episode in the history of Americsr ' sport. The lower California courEe {, now the most popular of all the winte, resorts. 1t attracts the horses of tb, strongest American and CanadiaT SeaOles that go in for winter racing dh no i've or six years of racing at san FFanelsco and Los Angeles. wher OaIiIOrnla was the mecca of the wintel game was as much as $1 100000 of tereo m stakes and purses. The sixtl SoIsoth handcap alone will pay mort In sdoed money than the stakes of Oak .anu ana santa Anita together paid ir any one season. t --
 Besides bringing to San Diego, tn, nose attractive of the Pacific coast, iI. wlnIes resorts, town of 100000 witt iayliltles ltIl Tor entertainment at reason aDie At1s cost unsurpassed on either tn, Atlantic or Pacific seaboard. thonsanJ, of visitors of means Tiiuane rao;ns has powerfully stimulated fboronob. bred production in California and ot6a, western states and vastly increase thoroughbred values. N''''
 In the management of racing Q, Tijuana Mr. Coffroth is ably assisted h, Jack" Atkin. His presiding stewa rG IS Francis Nelson, presiding stewa rJ also of the Canadian Racing sssocis, lions summer meetings at Blne Ron. nets and Dorval Park. MontrssI Woodbine Park, Toronto; Hamjlton Connanght Park, Windsor and For, Erie. His starter is Marshall Cass;' dy, son of Mars Cassidy. he tbs starter at the Jockey clubs course oS New York state. Beginning modestIv iast year and the year before on tbe nah-mile courses of the east. youne Cassidy came here in November fo1 the Tijuana meeting an dstraight way made himself popular. Before the fin. lsh of session of 125 days he was acclaimed by the most exacting of tbs horsemen here the best starter on the continent. Young Cassidy Succeeded good man in Harry Morrisey. Last winter upward Nof 1000 horses came rom Canada, the Atlantic seaboar rd Kentucky and middle west for Tiimsns racing. There will be 1000 horses or more for the coming meeting. T6e competition of New Orleans and Hs. Vana have helped Tijuana racing in the past Racing next winter at Miami tla., will further stimulate it.