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, TIJUANAS STAKE RACE DATES More Important Events to Be Run After Lent to Favor Owners at New Orleans. I James W. Coffroth, the general manager of the Tijuana race course, has announced that the more important stakes of the impending winter meeting at the Mexican plant, which is situated in Lower California-, some fifteen minutes ride by trolley out of the City of San Diego, will not be decided until after the Ieuteu season begins. Mr. Coffroth came to the decision to defer the running of Tijuanas big races to as late dates as possible out of deference to the wishes of the horsemen who will campaign good class racers ut New Orleans. It is understood that racing at Jefferson Park and the Fair Grounds will not be prolonged beyond the beginning of the lenten season, a precedent in that direction having been established last year put of respect to the wishes of the governor of Louisiana, also public sentiment at New Orleans. There will be racing at Tijuana right through the lenten period and it will be possible for horsemen to ship from New Orleans to Tijuana immediately after the finish of racing at the Fair Grounds and prepare their charges for the big Tijuana stakes. The stakes that will bo run late at Tijuana are the 0,000 Coffroth Handicap, a gallop of one mllo and a quarter, for three-year-olds and over; the 0,000 V. S. Grant Hotel Handicap, at one mile and an eighth; the 0,000 Baja California Handicap, at one mile anil a sixteenth; the ,000 Tijuana Derby, :i race of one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds exclusively; the ,000 Tijuana Cup, two miles, for three-year-olds and over, and the ,000 Tijuana Futurity, a sprint of four anu a half furlongs, for tworyear-olds of both sexes. Mr. Coffroth has not fixed the dates for the running of these races, but it is not improbable that the decision of them will begin toward tin- end of February. Last season .the Coffroth Handicap, which was won by Be Frank, a La ton in Derby.jnid Latonia Cup winner, was decided, on. April : lQispme ten days after tlie beginning of eastern racing at Bowie, " It is improvable that .tlie next renewal" of the Ooffrolth wili ooeitrHefore .the. first of April. Seventeen- stake races,, Jmving a gross value of about 0,000, will be decided in the course of the 125 days of winter arid jpprlng racing- at Tijuana. The minor events will be run in December and January. No defnite decision has been reached as to the day of the, running" of the ,000 San Diego Ijusiness Mens Handicap, a race of one mile and a sixteenth, for thre-year-olds and over. But it is likely that either Thanksgiving day or Christmas will be fixed for it. The Tijuana meeting will open on Thauksgving day. Stake races that will be run in December and January are the Los Angeles Highweight Handicap, three-quarters, and the San Francisco Handicap, one mile and seventy yards, of ,500 each; the Far West Handicap, three-quarters mile, the Mcxieali Handicap, one mile and seventy yards, and the Speed Handicap, three-quarters mile, of ,000 each; the St. Ysidoro Stakes, one mile and seventy yards; the Oakland Stakes, three-quarters, and the Sacramento Handicap, one mile, of ,500 each.
