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LOS ANGELES RACING. A change of management has been made in the affairs of the Los Angeles race meeting, whereby the directors of the Sixth District Agricultural Society transfer to a new association the forthcoming fair in October, together with all the engagements of the running, trotting and pacing horses for that meeting. The new concern is to be known as the Los Angeles Racing Association and the incorporation papers are now being prepared by one of the leading law firms of Los Angeles. J. W. Brooks, who for several years has been the efficient official handicapper of the California Jockey Clnb, will be the manager of tho new concern, and that well-known newspaper writer and genial gentleman, Capt. Thomas B. Merry Hidalgo probably secretary. The directors will be selected from the very .first citizens of Los Angeles, gentlemen who are in every way identified with the growth and development of the great metropolis of southern California. It is proposed to make the fair and race meeting which begins October 11, this year, and continues two weeks, a grand success in every way. Special inducements will be offered horsemen and the best horses in training will be secured for the meeting. Probably no man on the Pacific Coast has a more thorough knowledge of racing in all its branches than Mr. Brooks, and Captain Merry is an encyclo-poedia in regard to all matters pertaining to the thoroughbred. Last year he visited New York, England and Paris, and Baw the great events decided by the thoroughbreds on the leading race courses of the world, and is therefore prepared to make the Los Angeles meeting up to date in every way. The meeting there this year will be the greatest in the history of racing in Southern California. San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman.
