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i ; I j I I : j j j j j I j j ! ! j ! I j j j j i CALIFORNIANS ACTIVE BUYERS! Ban on Early Juvenile Racing Fails to Deter Owners. Rancho San Luis Key Selling Young Stock . Privately to West Coast Sportsmen. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 3 Despite the promulgation several months ago of a rule by the California Horse Racing Board, which bars the racing of juveniles in this I state until May 1, there has been more ac- tivity on the part of California buyers of yearlings than ever before. When the announcement of the embargo on early juvenile racing was made, many horsemen declared that it wotold tend to drastically slow up sales of young stock. The objectors j theory was that buyers would decline to purchase yearlings in mid-summer or early in the fall, knowing that they must stand the expense of carrying the embryo racers eight to ten months before they would become eligible to race in California and start "earning themselves out." The embargo, however, seems to have had no deterring effect. For California racing enthusiasts have gone ahead purchasing yearlings on a much grander scale than ever . before. Harry M. Warner bought sixteen head at the -Saratoga sales for 9,000; Don Cameron bought twenty-two head for the account of Louis B. Mayer for 8,400 and , several other Californians bought lavishly at Saratoga and later on at the Lexington and Maryland fall sales. j LOYAL TO STATE. I It is presumed that these Californians who purchased in the East now will proceed to show their loyalty to their home state by buying an appropriate number of yearlings produced locally. Though most of the dozen or more important breeders in California j have not heretofore produced yearlings for j the market, most of them have this fall an-. nounced a willingness to part with all or a portion of their crop. The California Thor- 1 oughbred Breeders Association expects to j offer between sixty and seventy-five year- j lings, all home-breds, at a sale to be staged early in January at Hollywood Park, Rancho San Luis Rey, the states largest nursery and whose produce have been amazingly sucessful, is selling privately. Ten of the thirty-five San Luis Rey-bred year-f lings have been sold. George E. Stratton of the Douglas Aircraft Company, paid 0,000 j for three of the San Luis Rey crop recently. 1 Ivan Parker, Los Angeles attorney, paid ,350 for one. Meadow Brook Stable paid ,350 for the yearling full-sister to Better ! Bet, the latter a Meadow Brook horse, and the same racing establishment took another yearling filly for ,000. Joe Elliot, who used to race Bon Fume, bought his full sister, while Herbert Kohlbush of the Dolicia Stable, bought the full sister of Smoky Snyder, recent winner of the California Home-Bred Stables at Bay Meadows, Charles E. Cooper, owner of Rancho San Luis Rey, announced recently that he will ; stage a "day of racing" for his yearlings De- J cember 18, the last Sunday before Christmas, j These yearling trials will be held at the ranch and the public has been invited to attend. The yearlings will be raced in six events, six horses comprising the field in each race. Last year a crowd of 400 watched the trials jat San Luis Rey. I
