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TO MOVE TO CALIFORNIA 1 G. W. Wingfield to Transfer His Stock Farm to Goiden State. : Breeders and Horsemen Plan Campaign for Re-Establishment of Racing. i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., November 22. George W.. Wingfield, well known turfman and breeder, is moving his Nevada Stock Farm from Reno, Nev., to California, and within a few days will announce the purchase of a farm in this section of California suitable for breeding purposes. Thirty-one fashionably -bred yonns thoroughbreds, raised by Mr. Wingfield in Nevada, have been shipped to Sacramento. Temporarily the band will be kept at the State. Fair track at Sacramento, and as soon as their new home is- ready they will be trans-ported there. In the band are twenty weanlings, ten yearlings and one two-year-old. Nearly all of the youngsters are sons and daughters of the stallions Athe-ling and Honeywood. Mr. Wingfield and his trainers believe the mild climate of California will assist materially in the development of the "babies" into race horses capable of battling for the greatest turf prizes of. the countryl . - Wingfield plans to build up a large stud establishment in this state. Some fifty-two brood mares and two stallions have been left in Nevada, though they will be shipped here later. The announcement is coupled with a story that the thoroughbred people are to campaign for the reopening of racing in the state and if plans go well such a measure -may be placed on the ballot at the next election. BREEDERS. ANXIOUS TO REVIVE RACING. The breeders are anxious to re-establish racing not for the benefit of the race track promoter, but to encourage the raising of goo horses. A bill is contemplated based on the Kentucky measure. It would permit of pari-mutuel betting only with the proviso that after 0 per cent or some such figure is given to the track, the profits must go to the Red Cross and good roads movements. Already California has some notable establishments for raising thoroughbreds. The best blood anywhere is represented by the stallions and brood mares at John II. Rosseters Wikiup Raucho, Santa Rosa; A. K. Macombers Elmwood Stock Farm, Mil-pitas; Edward Cebrians Mira Monte "Stock Farm, San Jose, and the Napa Stock Farm. According to reports from southern California, Anita Baldwin is making extensive plans for the resumption of the breeding of thoroughbreds at famous Santa Anita. In the days of the glory of California on the track the name of Baldwin was one to conjure with. E. J, Lucky Baldwin furnished four winners of the American Derby. The two-year-olds among the Wingfield horses brought to Sacramento is Waterwood, -a chestnut son of Honeywood Shasta Water, the dam of the old favorite. Bubbling Water. The yearlings are by Honeywood, with one exception, a son of the well-remembered Deutschland. The weanlings are by Honeywood and Atheling. George W. Berry, one of the closest students of blood lines in the country, said yesterday. that Honeywood is one of the best bred horses in the United States. Honeywood is a son of the noted stallion Polymelus. Honeywoods dam. Honey Bird, comes from a great producing family. Atheling is a younger horse than Honeywood, being six years old. His lineage is equally aristocratic, as lie is by Desmond, a son of St. Simon, the ."Emperor of Stallions," and lfas Wood Daisy for dam.
