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4 . SHOW BUSTLE AND ACTIVITY Preparing for Early Arrivals at Tanforan Applications for Reservations Already Made. SAX FRANCISCO, Cal., October 19. All is bustle and activity at Tanforan, the picturesque course down at San Bruno, where the sport of racing is scheduled to be brought back on a pretentious scale some time in February. The last few days superintendent A. M. Allen has been directing the construction of kitchens for the "help" in the strings that will be the first arrivals. Jack Clifford, trainer of the J. W. March-bank stable, will have eighteen stalls for the thoroughbreds owned by the well-known breeder, and has been assigned one of the new kitchens. The A. K. Macomber horses will be quartered in a special "barn." An interesting contest is on between the March-bank and Macomber stables to be the first to take up accommodations at the track. Nineteen yearlings from A. B. Spreckels Napa Stock Farm are being given their primary education as racers at Pleasanton, the "Horse Haven of the West," and there is a possibility that Mr. Spreckels will steal a march on the others by shipping over from the Alameda County course to Tanforan. James MacDonnel, who was superintendent of Ormondale Stock Farm for the late William OBrien Macdonough ; Sam McGib-ben, the well-known racing official ; George Berry, the veteran trainer, who is handling the George AVingfield yearlings, and other horsemen pronounce the Tanforan course in fine condition and confidently expect the horses to thrive there. Some of the galloping undoubtedly will be done on the training course inside the main racing circuit. Racing secretary "Bob" Leighton is receiving scores of applications for stalls. One of the most interesting was from Mrs John Franklin, who applied on behalf of her husband for accommodations for Carabosse and others of quality. Carabosse was in the shipment of mares from England several years ago to the "ranches" of the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Minto and George Lane in Alberta. The Prince cf Wales was anxious to send his mares out under colors in the racing in various parts of Canada, but they showed so little in trials the attempt was never made. Carabosse was one of the Lane mares and she demonstrated at the recent Vancouver meeting that she is gocd enough to run against any mans horse. "The real flier of the band was Georgette, but she has never been raced in Canada cr the United States," said racing secretary Leighton today, in discussing the English matrons. If Georgette could have done better than Carabosse she wouldl have won a place with Cleopatra, My Dear and other high-class mares of late years. Carabosse, a daughter cf the Desmond horse Fairy King and the Cyllene mare Cyrene, won in the easiest manner imaginable from the best horses in the Northwest. She carried 131 pounds in a handicap at Brighouse Park, running a mile and an eighth in 1:52, the mile in better than 1 :40. Other victories were just as impressive. Georgette and the Rock Sand mare Mine-Held were purchased from the Earl of Minto by George Wingfield and are now in the breeding paddock at Nevada Stock Farm. Georgette is by the Bend Or horse Radium, from the St; Frusquin mare Charmeuse. By being bred to Mr. Wingfields staTlion Honey-wood there is a doubling up of the blood of the great Galopin. j
