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FEATS OF TWO STAR THREE-YEAR-OLDS. King James and Big Chief, Young Horses That Will Race -in California. Among the many good race horses that will take part in the approaching winter campaign in California, none 1s more likely to figure importantly than the three-year-old colt. King James. Game, tleet and hardy, this son of Plaudit aud Unsightly possesses every attribute of the- desirable racer except great size, but, small as he is, he has held his own with all coiners and has already won over 0,000. As a two-year-old lie won but one race in ten starts, but that race was the rich Tremont Stakes at Graves-end, in which he defeated Ben Fleet. Beaucoup. Wave Crest. Masque. Chapultepec. Sudden Start and Master Robert. This year, of sixteen races lie has won but three, but he has otily twice been unplaced and in nearly all his races lias been found battling out the finishes courageously and dangerously. His greatest triumph this year was in winning the 5.-000 Annual Champion Stakes from Falcada. Dorante and Chief Brant. His other two wins were of purses, in one of which, at Saratoga, he ran a mile in I:3S fiat. His record to date is as follows: King James, b. c. 1905, by Plaudit Unsightly. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1!K7 2 10 1 0 4 5 -1. ..25 190S 3 10 : G 5 li 3b.997 Totals 2 20 4 6 9 7 1,322 Another high-class three-year-old now at Oakland in preparation for the big stakes of the California Jockey Club is the speedy Pontiac colt. Big Chief, now- the property of Thomas II. Williams. As a two-year-old he won two of his seven races, both purses, and was considered barely useful. But this year he developed into a colt of great speed and ability to carry good weight successfully, and raced so well that his present owner gave 2,000 for him. quite a sum in these days of low prices, but probably a more than good investment. In fact, he has already repaid a considerable part of his purchase money in winning the September Stakes from Fair Play and Falcada. running second to Half Sovereign in the Ocean Handicap, third to Spooner and Resti-goucho in the Flying Handicap, and defeating Frank Gill. Bedouin and Dally for a ,500 special at Brighton Beach, in which he ran a mile and a quarter in 2:03s. with 111 pounds on his back. In the September Slakes he carried the same weight and ran a mile and five-sixteenths in 2:10?. and when beaten by Half Sovereign in the Ocean Handicap only lost by three-quarters of a length at a mile in 1:3S2. He is in all respects a good one and his record to date is: Big Chief, ch. c. 1005. by Pontiac Madelaine. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1007 2 7 2 1 0 4$ 1.720 100S 3 20 0 G 2 3 10.820 Totals 2 27 H 7 2 7 2,540
