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INAUGURAL AT BAY MEADOWS Big Crowd in Attendance Despite Chilly Weather Conditions. Cloud DOr, Open Range and Fort Springs Carry Top Weight in the Opening Handicap. SAN MATEO, Calif., April 14 The weather was rather chilly at Bay Meadows for the opening day of the 1936 season, but that did not prevent a large-sized crowd from turning out to witness the meeting ushered in and wager liberally on the eight races. General manager William P. Kyne and his associates were well satisfield with the first days attendance and business, and freely predict that the Bay Meadows meeting will top that of Tanforan by about 25 per cent. The field in the Opening Handicap was cut down by numerous scratches but, nevertheless, the three high weights Cloud DOr, Open Range and Fort Springs remained in the contest. Fort Springs raced in the silks of Maj. Austin Taylor, whose horses just about cleaned up in the Tanforan handicaps. It was learned Tuesday that Paul Lycan, well known western trainer, would take over the horses of Major Taylor when Darrell Cannon departs for the East with Indian Broom. Cannon will leave April 20 and will be accompanied by jockey George Burns, who did most of the riding for the Taylor stable during the Tanforan meeting. Burns, while far from being the best jockey in the world, seems to understand the three-year-old, and most of the star eastern jockeys have already been engaged for the Kentucky Derby, which is Indian Brooms objective. Meanwhile Special Agent, the four-year-old that was overshadowed by the greater performance of his stablemate, Indian Broom, in the Marchbank Handicap, is training well for the Bay Meadows Handicap, in which he, too, will attempt to defeat Top Row, Azucar and the other stars. Special Agent went three-quarters Tuesday morning in 1:14, going the half mile in :48. He is fast rounding to his best form.
