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COMING OAKLAND MEETING. PRESIDENT WILLIAMS TELLS OF THE OUTLOOK FOR RACING AT SAN FRANCISCO. Says He Expects It to Be the Best Ever Held on the Coast Announces List of Stakes to Be Decided. Mr. Thomas H. Williams, president of the California Jockey Club, is in Chicago for a brief stay prior to going on to New York, where he will confer with owners la regard to the winter "racing to be conducted at Oakland beginning the 17th ot next November. "I firmly believe we shall have the best meeting In all respects ever held on the coast," said he yesterday. "The people of San Francisco have recovered from the dismay caused by the earthquake and destruction of the main portion of our city and are full of hope and confidence in the future. In the course of the long work of rebuilding, a large proportion of our people find themselves provided with abundant leisure and are eager to be furnished with amnsements with which to pass away the time. It may seem surprising, but I. am confident more people will attend the Oakland races than have done so heretofore. "When it was known that the California Jockey Club Intended to give its , usual season of racing, sthere;iwas anlmpresslon- that purses and stakes would be reduced. Quite to the contrary, we will In no respect curtail our offerings to horsemen. Our stakes are identical with those of last season-and the large number of overnight ,000 or over handicaps that proved so attractive and successful laBt winter, will be continued liberally, dependant, as a. matter of course, on our having enough good horses on hand to fill them well and provide good entertainment for a sport-loving people. Horsemen will find our tracks and equipments in first-class condition in every respect and accommodations will be ample for themselves and their horses. Just at present hotel facilities in San Francisco are necessarily limited, but construction is being hurried rapidly and there will be little to complain of In that respect by the time racing begins. We already .have a big contingent of horses ready that have raced at Seattle and other coast tracks during the summer and I hope to be able to attract horses of good class from New York and the central west. I. have a stable of fourteen youngsters myself, seven of which are now two-year-olds. There may be one or two good ones among them." Nineteen stakes have been scheduled for the meeting. They carry a total of 8,500 in added money. Fifteen of the stakes will close October 29. The other four, for horses now yearlings, to be raced as, two-year-olds in 1907, will close December 3. Here is the list in the order in which the stakes are to be decided, the dates having already been fixed, the ages named being those at the time of closing and the amounts representing the value in added money, save in the Burns Handicap, which has a guaranteed value of 0,000: Opening Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one mile, ,000 added; November 17. Thanksgiving Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and one-eighth, ,000 added; November 29. Crocker Selling Stakes, three-year-olds and upward, one mile, ,000 added; December 8, Pacific Union Handicap, two-year-olds and npward, one mile, ,000 added; December 15. Christmas Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a quarter, ,000 added; December 25. New Year Handicap, two-year-olds and upward, one mile and an eighth, ,000. added; January 1. Follansbee Handicap, two-year-olds and upward, seven-eighths of a mile, ,000 added; January 5. Andrew Selling Stakes, two-year-olds and tip-ward, six and one-half furlongs, ,000 added; January 12. Lissak Handicap, two-year-olds and upward, one mile, ,000 added; January 19. Burns Handicap, two-year-olds and npward, one mile and a quarter, 0,000 guaranteed; Jcnuary 26. California Oaks, fillies, two-year-olds three-year-olds at time of running, one mile and one-sixteenth, ,000 added; February 2. Palace Hotel Handicap, two-year-olds and npward. one mile and an eighth, ,000 added; February 9. California Derby, two-year-olds three-year-olds at time of running, one mile and a quarter, ,500 added; February 22. Watcrhouse Cup, two-year-olds and upward, one mile and a quarter, ,000 added; March 2. Thornton Stakes, two-year-olds and upward, four miles, .,500 added; March 16. The four stakes for two-year-olds In 1907, to close December 3, are: Gunst Stakes, fillies, one-half mile, ,500 added; February 16. Undine Stakes, colts and geldings, one-half mile, ,500 added; March 9. Bell Stakes, four and one-half furlongs. ,000 added; March 23. Gebhard Handicap, five-eighths of a mile, ,500. added; March 30.
