. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 5, 1904] ©h£ gveebev anb Qpovtstnan News and Gossip of the Gallopers. The opening of the usual long racing season in Cali- fornia is close at hand, and from those already on the ground it is gathered that the coming session will rather eclipse the meetings of the past in point of rac- ing excellence—which is saying not a little. There will be in attendance nearly all the good stables thai have made California famous as a winter racing Meccain years agone, such as those of W. B. Jennings, R. A. Smith, Dr. H. E. Rowell, Garnett Ferguson, William Cahill,


. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 5, 1904] ©h£ gveebev anb Qpovtstnan News and Gossip of the Gallopers. The opening of the usual long racing season in Cali- fornia is close at hand, and from those already on the ground it is gathered that the coming session will rather eclipse the meetings of the past in point of rac- ing excellence—which is saying not a little. There will be in attendance nearly all the good stables thai have made California famous as a winter racing Meccain years agone, such as those of W. B. Jennings, R. A. Smith, Dr. H. E. Rowell, Garnett Ferguson, William Cahill, Louis Ezell, Charles Boots, Parker & Thwaite, Mike Daly, John F. Schorr, Barney Schrei- ber, M. D. Miller, W. P. Fine, Harry Stover, W, Don- athan, R. Wilson, James Nealon, C. C. McCafferty, W. Fisher, D. S. Fountain, W. M. Murray, P. Sheri- dan, E. F. Smith, C E. Hensbiil and others equally well known around San Francisco, while Los Angeles, with its undeniably grand climate and its auspicious opening of last season, will have a vastly increased influx of racers and racing men over its in'.tial year. Among the owners who will send strings to the favored metropolis of the southland are Ed Corrigan, Pat Dunne, James Curl, Frank Reagan, Johnson & Dodson, W. Anderson, Joe Cooper, E. J. Baldwin, Gus Lanka, Joe Yeager, B. E. Durnell, James Mc- Laughlin, John Bondy, John A. Cole, Charles Kerr and George Stroebel. The good riders will return, to say nothing of new stars in the racing firmament like W. Davis, Greenfield, W. Dugan, Cormack and Aubuchon. Maijy improvements have been made at the tracks in this vicinity, while Los Angeles has a brand-new Ovmonde) out of the famous race mare Reclare. The Mist, by Magnet-Tenebrae, wasa filly of stakecaliber both in California and around Chicago, while Bear- catcher, which was brought to this part of the world as a yearling and developed here, won seven out of the eight races he started in at Chicago and Kansas City from July 1st


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