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INVITATION TO BREEDERS Asked to Become Associate Members of Pacific Coast Club. Efforts Being Made to Bring Back Glories of California Breeding Leases Stanford Ranch. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., November 24. The Pacific Coast Jockey Club has extended invitations to all breeders of thoroughbreds out this way to become associate members of the association that is planning, to hold high-class meetings at the new Tanforan course, twelve miles south of this city. The originators of the plan to race once more at the historic course are breeders and fully realize the necessity of gaining the complete support of the men along the coast engaged in the fascinating pursuit of rearing bloodstock. The suggestion to enlist the rank and file of breeders in the enterprise was made by Charles T. Boots and at once adopted by the directors of the Jockey Club. The plan will embrace the breeding industry of British Columbia, as well as that of central, northern and southern California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and other states of the West. A number of stud establishments are thriving north of the American boundary and it is confidently expected their owners will gladly join hands with their fellow workers in the great thoroughbred business down this way. A. B. Spreckels, Rudolph Spreckels, A. K. Macomber and Hertbert Fleischacker as directors of the Jockey Club are bending every effort to bring back the glories of breeding on the Pacific coast through their own haras. It is felt, however, a united front must be presented in the important venture and for that reason the invitation has been made general for breeders to become members of the Jockey Club. Herbert Fleischacker has decided to race at the meetings at the course down the peninsula under the nom de course "Palo Alto Stock Farm." The well-known banker leased the noted ranch of the Stanford estate some time ago. If the Fleischacker colors attain to even part of the fame of the Stanford racers their owner will undoubtedly be more than satisfied. Old timers still enthuse in iecounting the achievements of Flambeau, Racine, Gorgo and other topnotchers bred by the late United States senator.
