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NET VALUE OVER 00,000 Expect Santa Anita Handicap to Pay 1937 Winner Over Above Sum. Santa Anita Derby Also Counted on to Give Winning Owner in Excess of 0,000. ARCADIA, Calif., Oct 9. That the winning owner will draw down in excess ot 00,000 out of the Santa Anita Handicap, in addition to doubling the other place monies 0,000 for second, 0,000 for third and ,000 for fourth is the prediction of Charles H. Strub, general manager of the Los Angeles Turf Club. Strub declares that he found so much interest among horsemen in the substantial boosting of the rewards behind the winner of the worlds richest stake, while on the trip east with racing secretary Webb A. Everett, that an increase in the number of nominations and starters with respective fees of 00 and ,000 is assured to build up the 00,000 in added money to a materially greater amount than for the first two runnings of the feature. For the inaugural running of the stake in 1934, there were seventy nominations and twenty starters for a gross value of 27,000. Last year eighty-two nominations and fifteen starters totalled 23,200. The mark set for the running this season on February 27, 1937, is for 125 nominations and twenty-five starters which would make 37,000 and would leave the winning owner 02,000. Nominations do not close until December 1, 1936, and Strub figures he is making a conservative estimate. There is also an extra inducement of a 0,000 prize set up for the trainer of the winning horse. STAR THREE-YEAR-OLDS. Putting up 0,000 in added money for the Santa Anita Derby, to be run on February 22, 1937, general manager Strub further poiits out, is going to bring out the big stables who boast of crack three-year-olds and will add to the lure of the big handicap. There is a good prospect that the winning owner of the Derby will clear 0,000, even with 0,000 set up for second, ,000 for third and ,500 for fourth. Nomination, entrance and starting fes are expected to be numerous for the greatest amount of money ever offered three-year-olds. The daily purse offerings are the largest ever set up by a racing association for a single meeting of such duration. On week days there will be five races at ,000, two at ,200 and one at ,500. On Saturdays and holidays, the program will consist of five races at ,000, two at ,200 and one stake at ,500 or more. The Los Angeles Turf Club is busily engaged now making preparations for the opening of fifty-three days of racing on Christmas Day, General manager Strub maintains a year-round executive staff with assistant general manager Gwynn Wilson, secretary Hugh Blue and racing secre.ta.ry Webb A. Everett on the job. October 15 director of publicity Fred A. Purner joins the staff. A large number of stable reservations have already been received with assurances from practically all the leading stables that they will be represented this winter. First official nomination for the Santa Anita Handicap comes from England, Raoul Walsh, the prominent motion picture director, cabling in the name of "Thankerton," which ran third in this years Epsom Derby.
