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PREDICTS GREAT SEASON FOR OAKLAND. San Francisco. CaL, July 27. — According to Walter R. Jennings, the coining racing season at Oakland should prove to be the greatest in the history of the sport locally. Mr. Jennings, who took a siable of horses to New York last spring, has returned and was a visitor in the city a day or two ago. having come down from his ranch near Woodland. Jennings says that more owners are talking of making the trip to the coast than ever before and that if the proper inducements are offered by the Kew California Jockey Club, many of the star performers of the metropolitan tracks will be seen under colors at the Oakland course. Jennings said that owners who had raced at other tracks last winter were inclined to conic west this fall, as they had received encouraging reports of last season at Oakland. S. C. Hildreth. who has one of the strongest stables in the country, is among those that Mr. Jennings thinks will be well represented. In discussing the situation in New York. Mr. Jennings said that the outlook was not as serious as it had been painled in some ipiarters. and that inanv of the turf powera were hopeful for the future. It was his understanding that the meeting at Sheepshead Bay would open immediately after the close at Saratoga, and that if there was 1101 KM much inter-lerenee on the part of the authorities it would continue after September 1. the dale the new- Agm w -Perkins laws uo into effect. From his observations and the information he had received Mr. Jennings is of the opinion that the new measures will be de dated Btirnal llBlhaaal Mr. Jennings disposed of the horses he took to New York and also of the interest he held in those that carried the colors of Catesby Woodford. It was announced some time ago that Jennings was aboat lo retire tram the turf and devote his attention to his alfalfa farm at Woodland, but he said yesterday that lie left an order to bey eight year-limrs at the fall sales If the prices were right. He baa four youngsters at Woodland and will have them broken soon. If he secures the yearlings in New-York be will train and nice the entire lot at Oakland next winter, otherwise the four California-bred youngsters will be turned over to John livens, who trained for the late J. Nagbe Burk.
