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ARCADIAS GOLDEN PRIZES Wealth of Rich Stakes and Purses Offered at Coast Track. 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap on February 27 and 0,000 Santa Anita Derby on February 22. ARCADIA, Calif., Oct 27. With some of the richest stakes and one of the largest dally purse distributions ever offered by any single racing association in the world, the Los Angeles Turf Club is making early preparations to have everything in readiness for the third annual Santa Anita winter seasdn, beginning Christmas Day and running for fifty-three days no racing on Sundays and Mondays until March 6. Reservations already received from the leading stables in this country and with added entries from foreign countries to furnish an international aspect assures thrilling sport of the greatest thoroughbreds and jockeys in competition. An outstanding attraction will be provided to lure racing enthusiasts and tourists to southern California from all parts of the globe. DATES OF RUNNING. The stellar slakes on holidays and Saturdays featuring the Santa Anita Handicap, 00,000 added, on February 27, and the Santa Anita Derby, 0,000 added, on Monday, February 22 augmented by special attractions week days are: December 25 Christmas Stakes, one mile, ,000 added. December 26 Santa Maria, six furlongs, ,500 added. December 30 California Breeders Champion Stakes, one mile, 0,000 added. January 1 New Year Stakes, one and one-sixteenth miles, ,000 added. ; January 2 Santa Margarita, six furlongs, ,500 added. January 9 Santa Susana, six furlongs, ,500 added. . January 16-San Felipe, seven, furlongs, ,500 added. January 23 San Pasqual, one and one--sixteenth miles, ,500 added. January 30 San Vicente, seven furlongs, ,500 added. February 6 San Carlos, one and one-sixteenth miles, ,000 added. February 12 San Gabriel Juvenile, three f urlongs, ,500 added. February 13 Santa Catalina, one and one-sixteenth miles, 0,000 added. February 20 San Antonio, one and one-eighth miles, ,500 added. February 22 Santa Anita Derby, one and one-sixteenth miles, 0,000 added. February 27 Santa Anita Handicap, one and one-quarter miles, 00,000 added. March 3 Santa Barbara Juvenile Championship, three furlongs. ,500 added. March 6 San Juan Capistrano, one and one-eighth miles, 0,000 added. CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM. This years construction program, involving an expenditure of 50,000, has already been completed to carry out the predesigned plan to make Santa Anita Park, a magnificent and complete racing plant Added beauty to the picturesque natural setting of the park on E..J. Baldwins old Rancho Santa Anita, within the shadow of the towering Sierra Madre Mountains, will be a new horticultural motif of sunbursts of flowers at each end of the infield, with the balance set in flowers and lawns. There will be some sixty acres within the enclosure devoted to landscaping. Santa Anita Park is accessible to all parts of southern California. Located at the junction of Huntington Drive and Colorado Boulevard in Arcadia, just east of Pasadena, it is only sixteen miles from downtown Los Angeles. There has been no change in the outstanding group of sportsmen and financiers who organized the Los Angeles Turf Club to successfully revive racing in southern California after a lapse of some twenty-five years. Their officers are: President. Hal E. Roach; vice-president, Leigh M. Battson; vice-president and general manager, Charles H. Strub; directors. Erie P. Halliburton, Dwight H. Hart, Arthur C. Hastings, Nelson A. Howard, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Felix S. McGinnis and Dwight Whiting; treasurer and assistant general manager, Gwynn Wilson; secretary. Hugh Blue; controller, Robert E. King. FAITH WITH PUBLIC. The Los Angeles Turf Club submits that it has kept faith with the public to have true sportsmanship the inviolate rule at Santa Anita Park. The announced policy to conduct racing on the highest possible plane; to encourage the breeding of horses, which once ranked as the-third largest industry in California, and to accept and put into operation new mechanical and other Inventions to improve the standard of racing, will be continued. Arrangements have been made to again use the American Totalizator to handle the parl-mutuel wagering, the electric camera eye to photograph the finishes, electric visional timing and improved motion pictures of the starts. Racing officials of last season have been reappointed, with the stewards Christopher J. FitzGerald, Sr., Roy Carruthers, Edward Soule and the California Horse Racing Board to name a representative; placing judges, W.I A. Quigley, J. C. McGill and C. J. FitzGerald, Jr.; racing secretary and handicapper, W. A. Everett: starter. Edward Thomas; paddock judges, J. C. McGill and James F. Gallagher, and patrol judges, Peter Clark, J. R. Malu-vius and James F. Gallagher.
