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J. W. COFFROTH ON HIS WAY EAST. Will Visit Saratoga, Maryland and Kentucky Tracks in Interest of Tijuana Meeting Next Winter. San Francisco, Cal.. Aug. 2. James W. Coffroth, president of the Tijuana Jockey Club, left here Wednesday, August 1, for a tour of the eastern tracks. He has made all arrangements for the opening of the winter meeting at Tijuana on Thanksgiving Day and enthusiastically predicts that the biggest turf events since the old days at the Emeryville course will be staged in Lower California. "The problem that confronts me at present is to take care of all the horses that will come to Tijuana," said Coffroth before leaving. "Indications point to about. 1000 horses being on hand .for the meeting. I have ordered work on 400 more stalls to accommodate the reservations that are coming into us daily. Although the opening is almost four months away, we have had orders for 300 reservations so far and they are still coming in." An innovation for the western turf in late years will be the programming of steeplechase and hurdle races at Tijuana next winter. Coffroth tried out the hurdles in several races at the last meeting and they made such a hit with the crowds that he decided to include such races as a regular thing in making up the weekly program. Work lias been ordered for the construction of a steeplechase course in the infield, with the finish en the straightaway. Foxhall Keene fir3t suggested the idea to the Tijuana Jockey Clubs head and it is expected that a number of wealthy eastern horsemen will send out their junipers to race in the mild winter climate. Coffroth expects to be gone a couple of months in the east. He will be accompanied by Leon Wing, his secretary. Interest in the breeding of thoroughbreds continues to grow in California. A number of recruits are being added every year. The latest and among the most prominent is John H. Rossetcr, the shipping man. Ke is constructing a big and modern stock farm at his place near Santa Rosa and proposes to secure the best thoroughbred blood procurable to stock up the place. He has imported five or six head of English-bred horses so far and is reported to be negotiating for a number of others. S. Christensou, who lias officiated as judge at the Reno track on several occasions, has been commissioned as a captain in the quartermasters corps to buy horses at Fort Reno, Oklahoma. Captain Christensou has .several English-bred -thoroughbreds at Pleasanton and says that he is going to boost the thoroughbreds to army headquarters. Harry Piper, a little jockey who formerly rode for the Kenilworth Stable, has gone to San Diego to enter the United States aviation service. He is still a little fellow and had no trouble passing the examinations.
