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BAY MEADOWS OPENS TUESDAY Best Horses in History of Track Stabled at San Mateo. Top Row, Azucar, Special Agent and Indian j Broom to Meet in 0,000 Bay Meadows Handicap. SAN BRUNO, Calif., April 11. Bay Meadows, which throws open its gates Tuesday, April 14, for a meeting of twenty-five days, will offer outstanding attractions for northern California racegoers. Topping its schedule of eight stakes are the 0,000 added Bay Meadows Handicap, May 9, and the ,000 added Bay Meadows Fashion Stakes, April 18. These two fixtures are supported by a brilliant array of events designed to bring together the best horses in western training. With the more than 1,200 horses now keyed to concert pitch by the Tanforan meeting; a fast race track, which has been treated with thirty carloads of sand to make it shed water; a new outdoor infield paddock, new landscaping and flowers, Bay Meadows will offer its most brilliant meeting since the inception of racing at the fashionable San Mateo course a year and a half ago. William P. Kyne, guiding genius of the Bay Meadows course, is confident new records will be written into the racing books and the old marks will be shattered left and right. He declares that Bay Meadows is one of the fastest tracks in the United States, as well as one of the safest. Carload after carload of sand has been mixed into the soil, with the result that a resilient, water-resisting track has been produced. It offers an excellent cushion for the horses feet and should aid materially in formful racing. The 0,000 Bay Meadows Handicap May 9 will furnish the meeting of the "big ipur" of the western turf. These four thoroughbred champions are Top Row, Azucar, Special Agent and Indian Broom. The presence of these four would make any stake in the country a first-class attraction. Top Row, Americas ranking horse of the hour, returns to Bay Meadows fresh from his sensational victory in the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap. The five-year-old son of Peanuts and Too High likes the Bay Meadows race track; in fact, he set a worlds record over it when he ran a mile and a sixteenth in the amazing time of 1:42 on Dec. 8, 1934 to lower a mark of many years standing. Azucar, the converted steeplechaser, is the winner of the first 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Thus, Bay Meadows is getting the two winners of Americas richest race. Like Top Row, Azucar likes Bay Meadows. Although he has never started over it, he has trained over it for his Santa Anita engagements. Special Agent and Indian Broom are from the same barn the Maj. Austin C. Taylor stable. Between them they accounted for almost all of the stakes at Tanforan. Special Agent captured the Inaugural and San Francisco Handicaps and had gained many supporters for the Marchbank Handicap when a hoof injury caused him to be temporarily taken out of training just long enough to spoil his chances in the March-bank. Trainer Derrill Cannon decided against trying to get him ready for the Tanforan headliner, content to concentrate on the Bay Meadows stakes. Without question Special Agent is one of the best horses in training today, and his stablemate, Indian Broom, is one of the top three-year-olds in the country. Both were former stablemates of Cavalcade. They failed to get their chance with the Brookmeade Stable, but when Major Taylor purchased them in February at Santa Anita the two thoroughbreds became the bright stars of his stable and have shot forth in meteoric fashion under the training of Cannon. Indian Broom won the Shrine Derby and Peninsula Handicap at Tanforan. Bay Meadows has the strongest thoroughbred colony it has boasted since it threw open its gates for the first meeting. A cross-section of the equine population shows a well-rounded list of handicap, allowance and claiming horses, a splendid three-year-old division and an equally strong juvenile division.
