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Horsemen at Tijuana are now like the . birds in the springtime — looking for some place else to go. Every mothers son of them is going to have a great summer. If hes a Hardboot. there never was a place to make money like Kaintuck. He may not have made any there in five seasons, but hes going to this summer — yes, sir ! Just as he was all those-other five summers that he didnt. The New Yorkers will all be back on Long Island or in Maryland before the openings at Jamaica and Pimlico. Charlie Primrose, creator of the "Primrose Path," which leads anywhere a hoss owner craves to ship, is busy starting a Big Town stable most every day on its hike across the Rockies. Prim sent Vincent Powers and Mrs. Powers and the bull pup and the Pekinese and lony MCAtee and Cherry Pie and Hedge-fence and Barbary Bush and Damask, et al, out of here on the 4th. He helped "Pud" McDaniel and family and jockeys Harry Wakoff and Peter Walls bid San Diego adieu on the 5th. Louis Meripol is another who w;is included in the shipment with the winner of the Coffroth Handicap. Peter Walls left the McDaniel party at Chicago, going thence to Churchill Downs to help Henry McDaniel and Reggie Fisher prepare for the Pimlico campaign — all ably assisted by "Perpetual Sunshine" — one Bill Porter, whose home town is Pittsburgh. Charlie Trimble, the Matt Winn of Omaha, has been here for the past ten days spending his evenings watching New Yorkers, like Joe Benjamin, Johnny Reissler and Louis Kid Kaplan, box aspiring Far West fighters, and all his other waking hours convincing horsemen they should not cross the Missouri River till after the Omaha meeting. He has had good success. Omaha is a popular meeting with western horsemen and with the horses Trimble has been promised from Kentucky and New Orleans, the Ak-Sar-Ben session in June promises to be the best in the Nebraska citys history. George McMitchell, well known to all New Yorkers and Chicagoans who frequent the lawn of an afternoon, is here and will remain till time for Jamaicas opening, when he will journey east in the company of Lee Campbell and John Moore, of the Volney Club, and "Big Jim" Mclnerney and Willie Walsh of Buffalo, Frank Offermans home town. Chicago beckons alluringly to all horsemen at Tijuana. They can hardly wait for the bugle to blow at Aurora and Hawthorne. John Abrams did some excellent missionary work for both tracks when he was here recently. But all western tracks are going to have to hustle for horses this season. Reno and Salt Lake City and Vancouver may not draw a great deal of so-called "class," but they will attract and hold a lot of horses that racing secretaries in the middle west would find good use for. Must be plenty of long shots at any meeting, you know, or the even money spots will only bo 7 to 10. Gage Rodman, intimately known to all members of New Yorks Volney Club, and now a prosperous merchant of Ogden, Utah, has been appointed a member of the 1tah Racing Commission, recently created by the passage of a bill legalizing pari-mutuels, and directing the governor to appoint a commission of three members to control the sport There will be two thirty-day meetings at Salt Lake this year.
