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REQUESTS FOR STALLS HEAVY " f Demand for Stable Room at Bay Meadows Exceeds Supply. San Mateo Course Able to House Only Eight Hundred and Fifty Horses , ? 1,200 Applications. SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct 26. A Hood of applications for stalls at Bay Meadows indicates there -will be an exceptionally good grade of thoroughbreds here for the twenty-five day race meeting, which opens Saturday, November 14. .Requests for- stable room already have exceeded the limit, and they continue to arrive daily from every section where races are being conducted. Accommodations for close to 1,000 horses are asked, and indications are that fully 200 more will be requested before the opening date. Bay Meadows can only accommodate 850 hbrses and these stalls will be assigned only to the best of the 1,200 seeking barn room. The large number of applications will make it possible for general manager William P. Kyne to take his choice of horses to some extent, and he hopes to select a grade of thoroughbreds that will give Bay Meadows one of its greatest collections of equine racers. About 175 horses are now on the ground. These will be augmented by several hundred of the better thoroughbreds now racing at Tanforan. While many of the Bay Meadows horses, are campaigning at the San Bruno course a few are being trained for the second half of northern Californias turf season. Joe E. Brown, the actor, has American Emblem, Barnsley, Be Mine and Georgia Miss at Bay Meadows awaiting the opening. C. T. Leavitts McCarthy is another being prepared for the local season. The handicap division at Bay Meadows will be augmented this season by such horses as King Saxon, Time Supply, Where Away, Bottle Cap, Rifted Clouds, Bold Lover, Brilliant Light, Advising Anna and Our Count Several of these have never before appeared on a California track. King Saxon, a newcomer, is one of the turfs best sprinters, "while Bottle Cap and Rifted Clouds are, two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year. Among the more prominent stables that will come from the East are those of F. A. Carreaud, with, thirteen horses; Anthony Pelleteri with 14; T. J. Pendergast, 14; Herbert M. Woolf, 20; H. C. Rumage, 10; Mrs. 1 F. West, 10, and Bill Hartman, 14. The plater division will be replete with horses that race in overnight handicaps and claiming events of from ,000 to ,000, judging from the applications on file. Kyne and his assistants are busy with preparations for the opening, and the geh- eral manager is confident the ensuing season will be the most successful from every standpoint yet conducted at the popular-San Mateo plant
