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PLANNING FOR CALIFORNIA RACING. Hardly a day goes by that into this office does not come some manifestation, either by written or . poken word, of the spreading popularity of the movement for a circuit of district fairs launched 1 ere durng the exposition race meeting, and from ill present indications Secretary Robert A. Smith • ci the- Pacific Coast Fair Association will have I plenty of work ahead of him on his return from his eastern trip, as well as an ample sufficiency of | co-operation from various sources. It seems well I assured that California will have quite a little chain of fairs during the coming season, and state aid will not figure in the financing of any of them. The fair association was formed with the idea of raising s goodly sum and guaranteeing its own purses at a number of fairs, but from the way the Idea is leing taken up in various towns, all that will be necessary for that body to do will be to aid iApfimJUJf ;c iiaiii. of daiss-4iiai Jtt** iroc be con "•Jcnnjr and in lending the co-operatibn of its officials and members to the local associations. A number of members of the Golden Gate Thor-oughbrc d Association have signified a desire to see the runners provided for in a representative way at the fairs throughout the state, and while such a I reposition presents a number of angles and ins and ols that will require considerable smoothing out before it can bo made a success, there is no real reason why the thoroughbred should not play his i part in every fair in the state. As we said some . weeka ago in these columns, a fair belongs to all the , people, and as a popular medium of education, inspiration, ! entertainment and amusement it must appeal to all the people if it is to achieve success | in the true sense of the word. The thoroughbred I plays a very important part in the worlds affairs, and California in the days gone by has sent forth i some of the most famous members of the American i brunch of the family. All over the country the running - races are working their way back into public • favor, and their incori .ration into the regular programs at our fairs would l o a source of pleasure to many people, give the local end of the breeding in-clu-lry • just that much more of a boost, and bring ; jus] i much more help to the movement to reestablish our district fairs. There are numerous I State and county fairs where both the trotter and the runner are catered to. ami there are no insurmountable difficulties in the path of such a plan of procedure here. — San Francisco Breeder and Spore man.
