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MANAGER COFFROTHS DIVERSIFIED PLANS. Intends Starting a Breeding Farm at Tijuana Tra. I Amo:.g Other. Innovations. Baa Praaciseo, CaL, April 17. A new use for race tracks, during the month, of the off season, has beea discovered, .lame- w. feffroth, president of the Lower California Jockey Club am need here today thai plan- are already under u.-.y to conn rt th. Tijuana trai k int.. a mam !h br ed ,c: farm. "Bserj year the Jockey Clab falls heir to ■ number of horses, through owners failing to paj their bills ami the like, and it gave ne an idea " • i pi lined Coffroth. •-I figured th it we could use these well bn I talliona and man- In conducting a bteediag ei labHshmeat. There is :, growing demand for horses ami we certaialy need more breediag farms. ••our aaaoriatioa does not figure to make Hie fans a noaey maker. We win breed and rahw burses to be sold to borm mea for the exact cost • f prodacthm, plus tea per ceaL We add this latter sum so that we .an present everj teeth bone to the Mexican inn inmi nl of Lower Cali-fi i •• in this way we will improve thi standard . the bon e in our eoaatr] . "The Rysten n ■ will ase Is simple. Homes will I carried aioag aatil they are m stared yearling . and th n wi •.■.ill figan t the not of each. j"i . v will ! ■ |Msted tad if thej an soaght by re than one h.l~ i 111 be drawn. We are confident the ■;■ ■ ling industry will be encouraged aad at tin* i time the born nan v m be given an oppor trinity of securing some useful performers at cost. ••In our infield of forty seres we bare green riey plant -d and two hundred more acres will be set up m i nnmmcr. "Our establishmeut will be np-to dale in erery way. Ahead] the raclag at TUaaas has had the effect d prumptiog man: prominent m s to engaae hi the breediag ol tin r .. thbn d i. alter H. Dup. ■ of Coronado is matj i who is startiat pl.i.e a..,.: »ith th.- production of prtae cattle." Will Loaio iluiber of Traeks Next Ycr. Coffroth i: figarbn to branch oat aexl year aad k?asa a number f tracks in the far west s., that • circnil n n be arranged to keep the strings of ton men busy after the close of Tijuana. II. is now conduction negotiations for the lease of Mack- at Reno, Nov.: Phoenix, Ariz., and Dearer, i.e. and will try other point,. "i realise that if there i- more raciag ia the west it will be an added inducement .. the bone mea of the east to eosne to Tijuana." says Coff r o. "They woaM stay the year roaad and ii would do away with the expeaae of bringing oat th ■ -tabhs every fail. Parthermote, latnu is ■ field for racing, although the aroapects are mt bright in t alifornia." Coffroth will go eat iii Aagast to line ap horses ■ad Jockeys for the next meeting at Tijuana, the date for opening being tentatively set i.r Thanks-living Day. He anaoances thai there will be a dozen Stakes instead of the four at the last no cling. The valaes will be lacreased. The Ooffrota Handicap will likely be worth s7.."un. instead of ,000, making it the moat valuable raci of tin .vest. Coffroth expects to attract well over l.Mo horses and is biyiag plana to battd more stalbi to nc-commodate the applicants, lie says that t!; book making system of wagering will ceatinae, as he does art think it advisable to install the pari-mutuel machines at a meeting which has to ran en days :• fulfil! the concession from .he Hex i.aii government.
