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. i i f , . J 1 J 1 : SANTA ANITA INFLUX BEGINS Arcadia Track Ready to Receive Big Eastern Contingents. Dauber an Arrival and Galloping Soundly Stagehand, The Chief and Sceneshifter Among Those Expected. ARCADIA, Calif., Nov. 30. Santa Anita Park is experiencing an extra busy week as preparations go on for the opening of the fifth winter racing season on December 31. A number of large eastern stables are shipping, following the close in Maryland, and their arrival will more than fill half the stable accommodations. Alfred Gwynne Van-derbilt has named twenty-four, to make up his string and it is interesting that he is bringing Heelfly and Scabbard for the Santa Anita Handicap and some fourteen two-year-olds, led by Impound, Spot News and Adventurer, full brother to Discovery and purchased for 0,000 as a yearling, as Santa Anita Derby candidates. A. Pelleteri has twenty, including his English importation, OGrady. H. Guy Bedwell is bringing Sun Egret and nineteen others for A. C. Compton, along with five or six for Maj. Ral Parr. Honey Cloud, which has been boomed as the "dark horse" for the big handicap, will also be headed this way. NO ADVICE ON PLANS. Charles S. Howard has not definitely advised the Los Angeles Turf Club of his shipping plans for Seabiscuit and his eastern division. He may go to Tanforan or remain in the East until an expected shipment of Argentine horses gets in and come west with them. The Los Angeles Turf Club, on the basis of a preliminary survey, expects to announce on December 7, after all the mailed entries are in, 115 nominations for the Santa Anita Handicap and. probably as many for the Santa Anita Derby. Both rich races have grown steadily in attracting nominations since seventy were named for the big race in 1934 and the Derby drew fifty-four . candidates. Interest in recent arrivals has been centered in Dauber, the Preakness winner, which is galloping soundly again. A second division gives Mrs. E. Denemark twenty-one horses on the ground, with War Minstrel topping six or seven handicap nominees. A letter from Col. Maxwell Howard, definitely announcing that Stagehand, The Chief and Sceneshifter would be trained to fill engagements in the Santa Anita Handicap, created widespread enthusiasm.
