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WESTERN BREEDERS HOPEFUL • -t United Effort to Be Made to Revive Racing in California. *. — Resumption of Sport at Tijuana Looked Forward To With Much Interest. • SAN DIEGO. ;].. .lanuary 12. — With the return ■ the running aetat to Tijuana t ii*- Hi- rouitined market has jumped accordingly. Men turned gray in Hit- — i ►. . i-1 ..lit wcM have waited for more than two years now fur tin- wont which will aigaaltee the resumption of »wtitl racing. It meant that i gala they li;i,l found :i market [at their stock, and i i hi now the golden wot baa Ihe interested breeder to u even greater extent than when racing was :it its zenith. Some time during this areata! .vear a united effort will he made for the restoration of thoroughbred racing out WCSt. Word has been passed i; .lifferent times that this effort was to lie inaugurated in the past, hut in reality it has come .ii a hurtful moment rather than the psychological lime. Bat not so now. The breeder, the backbone ..r the apart, is going to try himself, and ii is generally accepted that he will succeed. Calif OT-niaus love sport, and the recent effort that rebounded in kiirci-s at 1a s Angeles could have continued with the same sointilnting ■■cecal had not ihe promoter- erred in choosing a date so closely upon its former triumph. Men like Cebrian. Ros-eter. Bueeckels, Macomher, I.oots, Van Gordon, Wingfield and the smaller hi wirteM are substantial persons in racing. They or.- in the s|„,rt io stay, and i, :- a -if- assertion that even greater HOBS have been spent by them than in the days of Haggin and the other treat western breeders Vaa Gnrdcii. a man identified for fifty years ■with the mania* horse, is one of these breeders who had almost lost hope until Tijuanas announced reopening. The good horse General Roberts stands In his ranch, and even with the limited amount of mares the famous old campaigner has shown a worth in the stud thai has caused bleeders to envy his success. Florence Roberts. Rose Marion, tan Roberta and Silvery Light are horses of winning unbalance. Now Van Garden has reeae here with all two year-olds and two of older ages. For the past month Van Gorden has patiently tehoolcd thetn. He waited for word from Tijuana, and it has conic as a pleasant call. Tijuana has served as a market for his Stark and he believes that he has even filler runners than he has shown hitherto. Messrs. Cebrian. Sprookels. Wingflehl and the others will probably be represented her-. President .lames V. toffroth is beat on giving the breeder eveiv eaeaarageaseat and two-yen old races, at every description will find their way on the raring programs at every possible opportunity. Strangely, too with the natural scarcity of racing stock, the two -vear -olds are here in greater abundance than when Tijuana was radag with more horses than it had stable room. With the reopeaiag of Tijuana will be a showing of dock from the younger stallions For the first time will a two-year-eld by Enfield be brought to the race-. The solid old horse is standing in the northwest and bis progeny has such splendid looks that his first get brought handsome prices. Another young sire out west is Sigurd, a son of Solitaire II.. and his first offspring to racing, a colt named Chrome, had such success at Reno that bis stock soared to the skies. He will be re]. resented by four two-year-olds at Tijuana anil his owner Trow bridge. Itclieves that they will prove even greater runners than those that went before. Wingfield will show his Heat J a Bad two-year olds for the first time at Tijuana. They comprise one of the finest looking sets of youngster- that has ever been seen out this way. They are being schooled at Sacramento. California, at the present. but Wingfield plans on having them shipped here at earn.
