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NON-PROFIT STUD PROSPERS Los Angeles Turf Club Makes Auspicious Beginning in Breeding Venture at Santa Anita. ARCADIA, Calif., Oct. 26. The Los Angeles Turf Club has made an auspicious start of its non-profit stud at Santa Anita Park as a contribution to the encouragement of horse breeding in California. The four-year-old stallion. Vain Bachelor, by Sir Gallahad III. Painted Vixen, by Harpy, had twenty-three mares to his court the first season and it is reported that twenty are in foal. Perhaps most interesting of the mating was the nineteen-year-old Cruzados Fcr-anda mare, Cruzada, from the famous old E. J. Baldwin rancho. Cruzada, traced back to Emperor of Norfolk, Norfolk and Malcolm on the sires sjde and Eel El Santa Anita and Fernandina from the dam, has dropped a foal every year but one since she was five years old. Other marcs served by Vain Bachelor were Green Star, Belle Var, Pharmacita, Hermacita, Eoyal Crest, Cherry Tree mare; Press On, La Belle, Playing Cards, Ribbons, Eoman Maid, Mary Ellen S., Lyrical Lass, Queen, Toucanet, Dolly Polo, Becky Lou, Mission Inn and Margode. General manager Charles H. Strub announces that Vain Bachelor will stand again next spring at Santa Anita Park on the non-profit basis and that plans are being considered to augment the stud.
