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CALIFORNIA ITEMS. Alex Shields will race a string of horses at the State Fair. Dick Havey will start the runners at Oakland during the meeting. The new track at San Bruno will be ready by the last of October. It is said there will be one hundred days racing at the Montana tracks next season, to be divided between the tracks at Anaconda, Butte and Great Falls. The betting privilege of the State Fair was awarded to B. W. Cavanaugh and Co., of Sacramento, their bid being 7,762.50, and 00 addi-tional for a one mile running handicap. The program privilege was sold to Frank W. Leavitt. who bid 25 for it. Marcus Daly will race a big string of horses here next winter, seme twenty-seven in all. Tho veteran Don Dennison will train and manage the stable, which will be headed by the crack handicap horee Isador, one of tho best weight-packers in tho country. Some Bitter Root yearlings that are reeling off three furlongs in the neighborhood of 351 Eoconds at this early stage will also help to make up tbo stable. San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman.
