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STRONG JUVENILE DIVISION Bottle Cap and Rifted Clouds Head Bay Meadows Brigade. Youngsters Espected to Oppose Older Horses in Stake Events Meeting Opens on November 14. SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 27. Bay Meadows will have an outstanding" band of two-year-olds for the twenty-five day race meeting opening here November 14. Among a group of some fifteen stellar juveniles to race here may be the coming years Kentucky Derby winner, and three-year-old champion. The Millsdale Stables Bottle Cap, certainly has shown as much promise of attaining this goal as any two-year-old on the turf. Winner of two recent important handicaps in succession; of seven of his eleven starts, and of 4,075 in purse money, this brilliant son of Bostonian Trig has stamped himself as a colt of undisputed class. Within the last six weeks Bottle Cap has won the ,000 Richard Johnon Handicap at Laurel and the ,000 Saltan Cup Handicap at Detroit. In these two events he defeated most of the nations leading two-year-olds. Bottle Cap is trained by Tony Pelleteri. The Bostonian colt will not be without competition at Bay Meadows. Kitted Clouds, his conqueror in the ,000 Washington Park Juvenile Stakes, will be here. This speedy youngster is by Insco and Green Leaf and is owned by Herbert M. Woolf. Although coming to the races late in the season, Rifted Clouds is regarded as a juvenile of exceptional class. Then there is Coramine, Charles H. Howards handy filly, that will be here to give them all a run for the money. Coramine has xron several important eastern stakes and has earned a total of 3,755 to date. William Hartman is coming west with his good California-bred filly. Lady Bewithus, which has won four races in fast company in the East. Already on the coast are several high class juveniles that command consideration in this division. Norman W. Church has four promising youngsters in Fair Lead, Sir Oracle, Patty Cake and Danke Schon. William LeBarons Brown Jade gives promise of developing into a handicap star. The two-year-olds are now nearing the beginning of their three-year-old careers and most of the better juveniles at Bay Meadows likely will compete in the stake events, against older horses.