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LURE OF THE RACE TRACK Trainer W B Jennings Hears the theSirens Sirens Call and Contemplates ContemplatesKeturn Keturn to Favorite Sport SAN FRANCISCO Cal February 5 Wal ¬ ter B Jennings for many years a leading owner and trainer on the big tracks has de ¬ cided he has remained on the side lines long enough He plans to leave here about the end of March for New York It is probable he will sign up with one of the important stables on the metropolitan circuit circuitJennings Jennings red and white stripes were the most popular colors at Emeryville during the days of the sport at the east bay course His Shot Gun Dainty Proper Krishna and other true runners had a tremendous follow ¬ ing His record in the East is well known Horsemen hereabouts have often said that if all thoroughbreds had run in years gpne by as consistently as those of the Virginian the reformers would not have had any am ¬ munition with which to fill their guns for the wiping out of the sport sportIt It is the veterans boast and a worthy one too that he has never been called into the stand in all his forty years or more of campaigning horses on all kinds of tracks at all seasons of the year Any time Jennings sent a galloper to the races the public knew lie was trying There was no such thing as copper on and copper off with him himThe The local man handled the A K Macomber string for some years and then attempted to retire But after a rest extending over a period of more than a year the call of the race course has proved too strong for him He is impatient to join his cronies at Bel mont Park Tom Welsh Jack Joyner Jimmy Howe Sam Hildreth and the other trainers on the big time timeNew New Yorkers have not forgotten that the theMacomber Macomber horses under Jennings training trainingled led the entire country in winnings in 1017 1017I I The heartiest kind of welcome is bound to be beaccorded accorded to him in the village by the sea
