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EXPECT SPRECKELS STRING t Young California Sportsman Planning Campaign at Alamo Downs. San Antonio Meeting Next on Schedule In Texas Workmen Busy Preparing Track for Opening, t SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 10 Several large stables will be shipped to Alamo Downs from Arlington Downs for the twenty-one day spring meeting that starts April 25 and runs through May 18, according to Charles F. Henry, racing secretary at the San Antonio course. Heading the arrivals from the Waggoner track will be the stable of J. D. Spreckels III., noted young sportsman and society leader of the West Coast. Spreckels grandfather was keenly interested in racing in California during the "mauve nineties," and this love of thoroughbred flesh has been inherited by his grandson. It was mainly through the efforts of the elder Spreckels, Ed Corrigan and H. Crocker that the sport thrived and flourished at Ingleside Park, Bay District, Oakland and other tracks more than three decades ago. The horses which will carry J. D. Spreckels III.s colors locally are Bissa-gos, Bon Time, Kai Harri, Ima Count and Busby, all consistent and speedy performers. J. L. Roberts will also ship eleven head, owned by T. F. Swords and himself and, including Hokuao, Desert Call, Cohort Miss, Deadeye Dick, Richstrike, Genteel Lady, Dark Devil, Balancer, Dornoch, Mars Palatine, and Morheart. Sam Orr will be represented by Metaurus, Fairystreet, Unkie Tom, Drombo, Catwalk and Cornelia Powell. Another stable to return is the string of T. J. DeBord, which was so popular during the past winter meeting. DeBord will race the good sprinter. Flashing Thru as well as Lovito, Hawk Moth, Fingal, Friar Mark and Rose Hazen. Stalls have already been bedded down for those stables, and they will be ready to move right in at the conclusion of the Arlington meeting on April 20. They will be joined by many other of the large outfits campaigning in North Texas, for Alamo Downs will be the only mile track in operation in the state during the. April 25- May 18 season. Over the week-end a score of workmen were put to work on the track clearing it of stones, and the track was like velvet when they had completed the job. The parking lot s has also been revamped, with low spots filled in with gravel. There are only a few other minor tasks to be completed before the track will be ready for the inaugural on April 25, and all that is now necessary is for the arrival of the 700-odd horses to be engaged in the various races. a
