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if SANTA ANITA TURF NOTES $ Registration of owners, trainers, jockeys, agents, grooms and the stable forces participating in the meeting will number around 2,700 counting members of their families. Architectural beauty of Santa Anita will be enhanced with the major additions to the clubhouse. Gordon B. Kaufman of Los Angeles won an international award in Paris last year for his design of the Santa Anita grandstand. The opening crowd last season was estimated at 50,000. With the seating capacity and other facilities in the clubhouse more than doubled by the additions to the building, the Los Angeles Turf Club expects a banner i turnout. Record attendance for Santa Anita is the estimated 63,000 for the big handicap last season which is considered a high ! water-mark for racing attendance in California, if not the whole country. Increased surface in the auto parking facilities, now providing a total of 155 acres, will likely top the some 18,000 cars almost ten per cent from out of the state that were counted last handicap day. General improvements, amounting to approximately 00,000 will be on display to add to Santa Anita Parks fame as a show place of southern California and an outstanding tourist attraction. Jockey Eddie Yager, has obtained the services of Jimmy Hayes to book his mounts during the Santa Anita meeting. Yager rode with a good measure of success at Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Louis "Apples" Tabor, a regular at S.vnta Anita every season, is an arrival from Maryland. Tabor has no horses at this time, but is ir quest of a few high class performers to campaign on the California circuit.
