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I SANTA ANITA TURF NOTES j The early morning at Santa Anita track these days is proof positive that a great race meeting is shortly to get under way. The drum of hoofs beats an incessant thunder from six in the morning until ten, as trainers sharpen up their horses for opening day. The great and the near great gallop by sharp cries of exercise boys crack against the brisk air stopwatches click horses flash past, unravelling the white rail of the course. Soon theyll be under silks and away to the races. The big race on opening day, December 31 a Saturday will be the running of the 0,000 added California Breeders Champion Stakes, at one mile, two-year-olds foaled in California going postward. This race is eligible to foals of 1936, entered in it at the time of their birth and kept in it by a series of payments made ovr the past two years. This added payment money all goes to sweeten the pot. Each year the stake will become more valuable as the breeding industry continues to grow in California. Fifty-four of the original nominees still remain eligible. It is likely that as high as twenty of these may get to the post. Those which are sharpening up right now with an eye on the race include Smoky Snyder, winner of the Home Bred Stakes at Bay Meadows; Valley Lass, that grand little filly of John Cromwells who is taking her daily works at Santa Anita and looking very good; Dunfrese, a War Cry colt owned by W. E. Boeing; Plucky Flight and Playful Wink, two of the get of Plucky Play, once conqueror of the immortal Equipoise; Has-trarch, a San Fernando Valley-owned son of Dear Herod; Quick Thrills, by the recently deceased stallion Quick Return; Ardrigh, a colt by Xenofol, the stud which sent High Strike to the races; Crystal Count from the Rancho Casitas of Walter Hoffman; Major Cris by The Okah, who is by The Porter; Blue Breeze, a daughter of Blue Larkspur, owned by Ed Janss, of the Cane jo Ranch; ; Last Hand, a Tick On colt owned by Louis I Rowan, and Neill McCarthy; Morning Breeze and Dear Diary, two more of the get of the grand old campaigner, Tick On; Jan Rogge, a colt by one of the best of all California stallions, Bistouri, dead this past year; , and Nanak, a daughter of John W. March-j banks King Heather.
