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STAKES FOR TANFORAN. The three stakes opened by the Western Tnrf Association are of such value and importance that they must appeal to the thoughtfnl consideration of all breeders and owners of the central and eastern states. Taken in connection with the splendid Futurity offered by the California Jockey Club, their offering is of the greatest possible importance to the breeders. The initiation of an absolutely new means of enhancing the value of thoroughbred yearlings through the chance to-enter them in entirely new stakes of great richness cannot well fail to be viewed in that light. As a racing field of importance California is familiar to the active turfmen of the country; but only now, through the institntion of these great fixed events, has it been brought with great fores to the interested consideration of the breeders. The principal of the three staksa off ared by the Western Turf Association is the Western Produce Stakes, for foals of 1900, to be ran at I CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. 1 i i , , , i STAKES FOB TANFOBAN. Continued from 1st Page. the spring meeting at Tanforan in 1902. Entries for mares close December 80, at the moderate fee of . The produce is in at 5 unless the mare iB declared out by January 1, 1901. This stake is bnilt on lines which seem to assnro that its value will run above 0,0C0, and it is hard to see how owners of good mares can fail to give their prospective foals an immediately enhanced value by entering freely at the low fee fixed for entry of mares. The San Francisco clubs deserve great praiso for their liberality and enterprise in branching out in the field of great produce stakes and the breeders also deserve from the breeders of the country at large the most substantial evidence of appreciation in the Bhape of liberal entries.
