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1 MUD RUNNERS IN LIMELIGHT Tanforan Course Deep in Mud TuesdayDeeper Wednesday. Large Fields Named for Sport Despite Track Conditions Allowance Race Heads Program. SAN BRUNO, Calif., Nov. 29. Tanforan mud runners are in their glory. The racing strip was deep Tuesday; will probably be deeper Wednesday and, with the northern rainy season due to begin, may be slow for the greater number of the fourteen remaining racing days. Tanforan was fortunate in having ten straight days of racing over a fast track. Owners of mud runners were beginning to believe that their horses would have no chance to earn feed money and, now that the goo is here, they have responded mightily to the plea of the racing secretary for entries. The card for Wednesday closed on time, and large fields will participate in most of the events. The feature will be an allowance race known as the Alameda, and among the entries are Rockwood, former California Derby winner; Lame Duck, winner last time out, and others of like calibre. The distance is one and one-sixteenth miles. MAY START FIRST KISS. H. Philpot, the owner of the speedy sprinter First Kiss, made a surprise announcement Tuesday. He stated that he would probably start the filly in the 0,000 San Francisco Handicap, December 17. Phil-pot figures that First Kiss will be assigned light poundage in the closing day feature and that she might be good enough to go to the front and remain there. Certainly her recent three-quarters in 1:10 indicates that she will set them a merry pace for six furlongs. She is not a mudder and will not go postward in the event of an off track. - The bureau of statistics comes up with the fact that but nine horses were claimed during the first ten days of racing at Tanforan. And one man, C. G. Patmon, claimed four of the horses. Evidently the boys are not running their horses out of line at the March-bank track. Shorty Adams is up at the top of the riding heap for the first ten days of the meeting, with thirteen winners, while Warren Van Tassel is second, with twelve winners and one dead-heat. Mr. Blaze, winner of the Inaugural Handicap at Caliente, was an arrival from the South, and will go into training for the Golden Gate Handicap, Saturdays sprint feature. Mr. Blaze is a fine mud runner and should the track be in poor condition this week-end, would have an excellent chance to take the honors. Another fine mudder entered in the Golden Gate is High Vote, from the J. A. Parsons barn. i
