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SEVEN IN BARONIS STRING Reno Turfman Planning Victories in Arcadia Stake Races. Specify, San Francisco Handicap Winner, Chief Member of Establishments-Had Long Vacation. ARCADIA, Calif., Dec. 20. A. A. Baroni, who was skyrocketed to turf fame largely through his wizardry in training Top Row for his great deeds, has a seven-horse stable quartered at Santa Anita Park. Three yearlings owned by Baroni are in training at Hollywood Park and will be added to his racing string by next May 1, when they will become eligible to race in California. Specify, Star Shadow, Rolling Ball, No Dice, Goldeneye, Downhill and Touch and Go comprise the string now in training at the Arcadia oval. Specify is the big shot of the outfit. He recently won the San Francisco Handicap, not having started since running second to Seabiscuit in the 0,000 Hollywood Gold Cup last July 16, in which mile and a quarter contest he was leading by four lengths at the head of the stretch. Just prior to that Specify had lost a head decision to the Kentucky Derby winner, Lawrin, in a mile and a sixteenth contest. The three-year-old son of Jamestown was eight times in the money in nine tries this year. The long vacation he has enjoyed is said to have enabled him to. develop his physical powers, and Baroni hopes that he will be able this winter to carry his tremendous speed the full mile and a quarter distance of the Santa Anita Handicap. FORMIDABLE THREAT. Rolling Ball is a crack California-bred and therefore shapes up as a formidable threat for the 0,000 added Home Bred Championship and 0,000 added Santa Catalina, both exclusively for horses foaled in this state, offered by the Santa Anita management. Rolling Ball, a son of Bistouri, won the San Gabriel Juvenile Stakes, ,000 added, last year and has earned over 0,000 since Baroni took him from Rancho San Luis Rey, where he was bred, broken, raised and trained. Star Shadow, a star during 1937, when he earned over 6,000, has not done so well this year, though he raced close up with some of the best in the handicap division, scoring decisions over Whichcee, Bill Farnsworth, Warfellow, Gallaclay, He Did, Calumet Dick, Aneroid and Amor Brujo, among others. If the son of Man o War, now six years of age, comes back to his best form, he should go places at Santa Anita. CONSISTENT WINNER. No Dice has been a consistent winner among the second flight handicap division for Baroni and recently was sent to Bay Meadows for a special handicap event, in which he was beaten four lengths by Main tMan. The other seasoned campaigner in the "string is Goldeneye, a five-year-old gelded son of Transmute, which has been on the I shelf with a bad leg for almost two years. However, Baroni is considered a past master at patching up cripples, so it is believed that Goldeneye will be heard from at Arcadia.
