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GALBRAiTHS UNIQUE HONOR Breeder, Owner and Trainer of Louis Lach-mund, Winner of Two-Mile Race. TIJUANA, Mexico. March 20.— A triple alliance flashed across the hertSM of the western turf yesterday, disclosing thai I lover of the thoroughbred had enacted, and enacted it successfully too. the three-way role of breeder, trainer and owner. Success for him was bespoken when Louis I.aehmund. a son of Tony Faust, running like a horse bred to travel all day. proved victorious in the 81.201 Minnesota Claiming Handicap, at two miles. This race, coming as a forerunner for the . X.O Tijuana Cup of Sunday, gives the border course the distinction of staging a pair of two-mile races in two day-. | feat which has no. been duplicated in years on the American turf. Now for the breeder, trainer and owner of the successful Louis Lachinnnd. He is L. Galhraith. known as a rather shifty "hand" with a racing tool. He bred the winner at his ranch in ihe State of Washington and he showed good form in his summer campaign. Saturday was the fiist time he displayed a return to it. Jockey Leas; had the mount on Louis Lachmnnd ami he allowed him lo follow Hit korynu:. the pacemaker, for the first mile. Then Ling urged his horse into the lead and he stood a hard drive near the end to hold his opponents safe. Bourbon Brass] was second. He was held in restraint for one and one-half miles. Then he moved up steadily and under hard riding hy jockey Huntamer ontgamed Fannie Nail. The long race, with its start at the stand anil then traveling twice around the course pleaded the big crowd and sort of whetted the appetites of race fans for the Tijuana Cup. at the same distance today. Nancy Winet proved best in the opener, a two-year-old race al one half mile. She was quick to get in mot ion and her speed enabled her to carry on to the finish. At that she was hard pressed by Peter Pierson. which was rapidly overhauling her at the end. Pat Hampson. the favorite, began slowly or he might have been closer up than third. The only favorite of the day to prove successful was Double Van. which got home first in the second. ;.i five and one half furlongs. His margin was a safe one. with Orace Trimble and lspham. two outsiders, his closest rivals. The outstanding surprise of the day was furnished by Caamano in the fourth race and it also produced the maiden win for jockey Petzgold. These two proved i winning combination and astounded the talent when they drove iti front of the others, paying 37 to 1. Don Jose, the odds on favorite, which araa backed almost to the exclusion of all others, finished hi third etace. The ride given Don Jose by jockey Carea was one to bring about tears anl laughter. IDs efforts in the stretch were ludicrous and he really was as much help to his mount a-that well known seek of meal. So miserable was his ride that it enabbd Peerless One to take second place from Don Jose. TURF NOTES OF INTEREST. Stuart Polk has voiced his intentions of shipping his siring to Maple Heights. Jockeys M. and E. Patat wiil accompany the stable. Senator William Cyclone Lyons, well-known spoilsman of Denver. New York and elsewhere, arrived yesterday making the trip acnes the county lo be present at he running of the Tijuana Cup. The seaatOf traveled westward with Champion Jack Beaapeey and left the latter iii Lis Angeles. Lyons had a BtCMage Irom Deinpsey i0 president .lame-Weed Coffroth of ihe Tijuana Jockey Club. It lead: "Will be on iiaad let Ihe Tijuana up Sun day." Jockey Long is showing a great aptitude for tiding over a long disiance of ground. Kven alter the com clash, ii of yesterdays card the veterans of the turf arere commending him for the manner in which he rode Louis Lachmuud to victory in the two-mile race. This is the second time thai Long has displayed marked ability in riding over a long route. Rei ently he rode Bui khorn II. to a win in a rac- of one ami one-half miles. The youth can do seventy-live pounds and is one of the lightest riders, hilt one of the stiongest finishers for his weight, at the Tijuana couise. The extensive string of thoroughbreds owned by Messis Skater and Ionwii.i el Kansas city ate expo-ted to get under way Monday, with Kentucky their destination. Among those liial will he leaded are Furbelow. Planet. Bullet Proof, Grace. Sam Bel and Belgian Queen. Cigale will he offered up at auction Sunday, she not being considered of sufficient class to win her way on the Kentucky tracks. James B. Duffy, general passenger manager of the Santa Fe. telegraphed president James W. Coffroth of the Tijuana Jockey Club from Los Angeles that so many reservations had been made by I»s Angeles rcstdcats for the special train Sunday morning thai it would have to be run in two sections. Charles Adams, a well-known sportsman of San Francisco, headed a party of Bay City fans that put in their appearance yesterday. The good sprinter Ikey T., which has been on Ihe shelf for some time, having been fired for ankle trouble, is e more in training and is going aleag finely. e- a
