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SOUTH OUTSTRIPPING NORTH Southern California Breeders Producing Faster Horses Than Rivals. Check of Statistics Shows Major Portion of Money in Home-Bred Stakes Falls to Southerners. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 3 Turf writers have recently commented on the fac; that Southern California has been distancing the northern part of the state in the matter of breeding fast horses. This reference came about as the result of the California Lassie Stakes running at Tanforan last Saturday, when Rancho San Luis Rey-breds finished one-three, and the second horse was from Ed Janss ranch. A San Luis Rey-bred also won the California Homebred Stakes at the recent Bay Meadows meeting and a horse from the same ranch captured the California Breeders Champion Stakes at Santa Anita last winter. These three races are exclusively for California-bred juveniles, and they comprise the "triple crown" at which the breeders of the state shoot. The comparison of the press writers of the produce from the southern and northern sections of the state led Daily Racing Form to check the statistics to see which portion of the state produces the more foals, and which group is the more successful on the race tracks. The records of The Jockey Club, New York, where all thoroughbreds are registered, disclose that production is about evenly divided as between northern and southern California, based on the registrations of foals during the last five years. From 1933 to 1937 inclusive, a total of 2,135 foals were registered by California owners. Of these, 1,358 were produced by the major breeders, that is, by breeders who registered a total of ten or more foals each, during the five-year period. The major breeders north of the Tehachapi Mountains produced 856 of these foals, while their fellow citizens from south of the mountains registered 702 foals. As regards the quality of the home-breds, the records disclose that the southern-breds have it all over their fellows of the north insofar as the winning of the several stakes for California-breds is concerned. Statistics covering the seven principal stake events ,000 or more added, for the home produce, disclose the horses raised south of the Tehachapis have won 08,830, or oyer seventy per cent of the total of 49,650 distributed in those races which are peculiarly pertinent to weighing value of our home produce.
