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BIDDING FOR GOOD HORSES Northwest Tracks Offering Valuable Stakes to Entice Racers of High Class for Coming Meetings. SAN BRUNO, Calif., April 11. Northwestern tracks are making a strong bid for horses of handicap caliber during the coming summer. Some time ago the Washington Jockey Club, which operates Longacres, announced that they would stage the second running of the 0,000 Longacres Mile, as well as a ,000 race to be known as the Seattle Handicap, and now comes word from Vancouver that sportsmen in charge of the Canadian courses will hang up two ,000 added handicaps to be run during the coming summer. Dr. McKeon and Charles Oldfield, who with Sam Randall are the guiding lights of racing on the Canadian coast, are getting together with Joseph Gottstein and Bill Edris of Longacres, and the major stakes at Seattle and Vancouver will not conflict. Handicap stars stabled at Longacres will be at liberty to van the 120 miles to the Canadian city for Vancouver handicaps without fear of losing a chance at the Longacres stakes and vice versa. The Vancouver handicaps, both of which will be at one and one-sixteenth miles, will be run on Saturdays, when the feature race at Longacres will be a sprint affair, while the Longacres stakes will be decided on Sundays. With this arrangement, owners of handicap horses will have 5,000 in purse money as a lure for five races, to say nothing of the lesser overnight handicap events to be run off in the interim. The arrangement whereby Longacres and Vancouver get together to avoid a conflict In their stake dates may mean that next season there will be no conflict in racing dates between the two tracks. If such a policy could be worked out it would mean much to the sport in the Northwest as that territory could have about four months of continuous racing.
