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LIMITED MEETINGS IN CALIFORNIA. Plan of Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breeders Association to Encourage Breeding and Racing. San Francisco. Cal.. January 25. — Despite the fact that a decision has been reached to abandon the plan to introduce the State Baefcaej Commission and pari-mutuel bill at the present session of the legislature, the idea to encourage the breeding industry and revive interest in racing in California will be carried through. This was the intimation given by Charles W. Clark, president of the Gulden Gate Thoroughbred Breeder aSBS eiation. on his return from Southern California. President Clark has been out of touch with affairs, but lias been informed that Senator James C. Nealon and other members of the Breeders" Association tire of the opinion that the time is not opportune for the introduction of ■ favorable measure in the legislature. Just what steps will be taken will be decided at a meeting in San Francisco at an early date, when Senator Nealon will be able to be in attendance to give his views. It is reported from several sources and is known by president Clark that a proposal has l eeii made to give several limited thoroughbred meetings at different cities in California this coming summer and fall. Tanforan track, down on the peninsula, would likely to be used to give some racing near San Francisco, and it is probable that meeting will be staged in Los Angeles or some other southern point and at Santa Rosa or Stockton. No Betting Sanctioned. now the meetings are to be staged will be a matter that will come up at the meeting. The association is not permitted by law to countenance betting under the Otis-Walker anti-gambling law now in force. The races would have to be betless affairs. The idea of the breeders is to keep the sport of racing before the public and call attention to the fact that California is getting off the map as far as the breeding of horses is concerned. If the meetings are conducted for sports sake alone with no incentive of money making, the general public will get away from the opinion that the racing is coming back, as in the old days at Emeryville, when the bookmakers were the big guns in running affairs. Another thing that the Golden Gate Breeders Association is figuring on doing is purchasing a number of thoroughbred stallions to lie distributed throughout the several count ies of the state to encourage fanners to breed blue blooded horses. It will improve the standard of the horse and at the same time encourage an industry that is very much run down. Bunning races at the fairs will lie another move encouraged by the Breeders Association. For the first time in years mixed cards of trotting ami running races were the attraction on the sulky circuit last season. The spectators seemed to enjoy the extra attraction. This was especially tine at the State Fair, and secretary Charles Y. Paine declared on his isit here the first of the week that the speed program would be arranged this year to give the thoroughbreds a chance to perform. At the state exhibition last September the Breeders Association donated . a 00 stake for the thoroughbreds and it proved successful. It may In-that they will branch out and encourage the booking of races for the runners at other fairs. That there will be plenty of runners to fill the programs is likely, as the Tijuana meeting will be over by that time and the 400 or 500 horses will likely be available for the races. Many prominent California breeders will also have their colors represented.
