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ARCADIA OPENING NEAR Santa Anita Ready for Saturdays Big Inaugural Day Card. fifteen Expected to Start in 0,000 Added California Breeders Champion Stakes. - ARCADIA, Calif., Dec. 26 Webb Everett, racing secretary at Santa Anita Park, is jmuch relieved with the thought that he has finally "placed" the greater part of the horses that are shipping into the stable area daily from all points of the country. The Stable area at Santa Anita has room to house between 1,050 and 1,100 head, and the job of getting the horses placed is a great one, from the standpoint that some are large stables and others are of only two to three head. Tack rooms and sleeping rooms have to be provided for the stable help, which in itself is no mean task. Santa Anita has close to 1900 stalls in all Jh the stable area, but with the sleeping rooms and tack and feed rooms taking up so many the job of weeding out the poorer iclass of thoroughbreds is a tough one. "When the announcement was made that the stable area was open, applications came with a rush from all over the country. Many horse-jnen wanted to bring as high as thirty head, some of which would never get to run in the high class races that are being offered at the Santa Anita track. To tell a man just ;what horses he could ship and which he jjjbould not bring was a task in itself. STALLS FILLED. Everett made the statement today that all he stalls were filled, and there would be no oom for horsemen that have the idea of shipping and finding room at the last minute. Santa Anita has without a doubt One of the greatest array of thoroughbreds hat have been assembled at any race track in the country. Many horsemen have complimented Everett on his judgment in picking his horses. The racing fan will have plenty to talk about when they have had the chance to witness day after day the big frames in horsedom. A field of at least fifteen horses is expected to start in the 0,000 added California Breeders Champion Stakes, headliner for th.e opening day program on Saturday. As the title implies, the race is designed to decide the championship of the home-bred juvenile division. Among the most likely to accept are Morning Breeze, Dear Diary, Valley Lass, Smoky Snyder, Dunfrese, Plucky Flight, Shasta Plucky, Homme Rouge, Toro play, Crystal Count, Timber Land, Iron Bunker, Retake, Blue Breeze, Cargador and Hasten Henry. CRACK FIELD. The 0,000 New Years Handicap, feature Of Mondays racing, will likely engage Spe-jcify, Ligaroti and Gosum, representing the j Pacific Coast, against some of the best horses shipped in from the East, or those which have rid themselves of their car legs. The Breeders Champion is the most highly prized of races exclusively for produce of California nurseries, and there is great local Continued on sixteenth page. ARCADIA OPENING NEAR Continued from first page. interest in the event on the part of the breeders of the state and California horse owners. Rancho San Luis Rey, whose produce, though numbering less than 5 per cent of the states total thoroughbred foals, have won over per cent of all home-bred stakes money since racing was legalized, will be represented three horses Smoky Snyder, winner of the recent ,000 Home-Bred Stakes at Bay Meadows, Homme Rouge and Retake. They are the get of Bistouri, Richfield and Easter Bells, respectively, which, with several other sires, stand at Rancho San Luis Rey. Neil S. McCarthys nursery produced Morning Breeze and Dear Diary, and these two are expected to rule favorites in the wagering, as both have shown high speed during the year. They are by Tick On, f V - 1 s- h s 50 ,0 :e by V ie y y ;r ir a- ro r- ig
