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NEARING END AT TANFORAN Season Ends Saturday When the San Francisco Handicap Will Feature Closing Program. SAN BRUNO, Calif., Dec. 13. Four more racing days and it will be all over for the season as far as northern California is concerned. The Tanforan meeting will come to a conclusion Saturday, following which owners, trainers and jockeys will pack their belongings and depart for the sunny southland to await the opening of Santa Anita. Tanforan has booked some strong attractions for the closing days of the sport in this sector. The stellar piece is the 0,000 San Francisco Handicap, richest race of the meeting. The big event will be run off Saturday and some of the mightiest horses in training will compete. It may be that the Binglin Stable entry of Ligaroti, Comet II., and Olimpo will be favored but with George Woolf on Main Man, that horse will also be heavily supported. The Baroni entry of Specify and No Dice will have many admirers. The San Francisco Handicap, which has been a feature of racing at Tanforan since the revival of the sport, is at one and one-sixteenth miles and the distance is favored by three heavy weight horses. Neither Ligaroti or Specify particularly care for the mile and a quarter distance but figure to be racing strongly at the nd of the San Francisco Handicap. ON EVEN TERMS. As they stand now, Ligaroti, Main Man and Specify are about even in matter of irioney won this season. Word drifting in from the south where Specify has been training indicates that the three-year-old son of Jamestown is in the pink of condition. It was rumored that trainer Darrell Cannon was going to send Whichcee to Tanforan for the San Francisco Handicap but after watching Specifys works decided that Whichcee had better remain in the barn. Specify and his stable companion, No Dice, were expected today. "Specs" Richardson will be on Ligaroti in the big Saturday race while George Woolf, as previously stated will pilot Main Man. A rider for Specify has not been selected. "Shorty" Adams, owner Baronis favorite pilot, will be up on Mrs. James F. Waters Beti Bat, so Baroni must look elsewhere for a jockey. It may be that Johnny Longden will get the mount. Incidentally, Longden was in bad luck Tuesday morning. He made the mistake of carrying his wallet in his back pocket and when he went to check up after galloping a few horses he discovered that about 00 and the wallet was missing.
