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T-----------~----------------t Here and There on the Turf Santa Anita to Have Forty Days j La France Cost Mayer 7,000 Embargo Established by France Ossabaw Will Jump Again «■ -.--4 j Santa Anita Park and Hollywood Parkj each will have forty-day meetings next sea-i son. . . . So came the information from the same source that gave us Edward Young as the new chairman of the California Horse Racing Board several weeks before Carleton Burke resigned. ... A meeting of this length will mean a reduction of twelve days at Santa Anita from last winters session. . . . Hollywood Park will have to cut only a few days. ... It has been known from the beginning that the newly-revised board fa vored shorter seasons, lor the Los Angeles j tracks. . . , Claiming the merchants de-l sired it. . . . Charles H. Strub and associates now will have to devise a program that will lure the important eastern stables across the mountains. . . . Will a ,000 purse minimum for older horses be the answer? . . . With Santa Anita having two-year-old events again, the values of these races probably wouldnt be as high. -Louis B. Mayer is reported to have paid Arthur B. Hancock S17.000 for La France last fall. . . . She then was in foal to Jacopo and this spring presented the motion picture magnate with a sister to Jacola. . . . Since Johnstown has come along so illustriously, La France is valued many times what Mayer paid for her. . . . Hancock obtained La France when she was carrying Jacola for a modest sum from William Woodward. . . . The Jockey Club chairman obtained Johnstown as a yearling because of sending Fox-brough and several others of his homebreds to his English trainer and requiring replacements for the home division. . . . Incidentally Woodward is a great believer in the Hampton line and thinks it crosses well with Sir Gallahad IH mares. Johnstown has that it and so has Boswell wjiich is out of Flying Gal. France has declared an embargo on thoroughbreds and work stock . . . Race horses are permitted to leave the country only when a bond is posted for their return within sixty days . . . An American attempting to purchase certain French-bred yearlings by a Teddy stallion couldnt complete negotiations because of this barrier . . . Roy Dickerson may be seen back in the Santa Anita Park starters stand next winter . . . He officiated during the first meeting at the Arcadia course . . . Ossabaw will return to steeple-chasing, Louis B. Mayer having decided he wasnt cut out for flat racing . . . The horse is now on Long Island and Rigan McKinney is looking out for him ... He has ridden him many times . . . Mayer has the idea to send Ossabaw after the English Grand National next year or the following year. Did War Admiral pass up the Excelsior Handicap because trainer George Conway, didnt like the way he pulled up in a recent workout? . . . Eight Thirty has been sent to Erdenheim Farm to freshen up . . . The George Widener colt may not resume racing before the Saratoga meeting. ... . Bel Air and Continued on thirty-ninth page. * HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. Timonium will have totalisators this season . . . These abbreviated tracks thus have stolen a march on such big time Maryland courses as Havre de Grace, Laurel and Bowie . . . Cumberland may install a steeplechase course . . . Thorncliffe will have jumping events for the first time this season. Silverette continues to show remarkable consistency in her seventh annual campaign . . . It is very unusual for a nine-year-old mare to be able to run three-quarters in around 1:12 most every time she starts. The daughter of Vandergrift and Louvain, by Marta Santa, has done very well for Garrett Watts, veteran Kentucky breeder, in her long career. Charles J. McLennan will be back at Washington Park as racing secretary . . . He and his staff will go to the Chicago course from Suffolk Downs . . . Pat Galliger is the secretary for all the Ontario tracks, succeeding Robert S. Shelley at Woodbine and P. L. Ciceri at Hamilton, Fort Erie and Stamford Park . . . Maryland Jockey Club has taken its suit for the elimination of the ,000 daily tax to Baltimore county to the United States Supreme Court . . . The favorable opinion handed down by the lower court was reversed by the Maryland Court of Appeals Pimlicos meeting was just as successful as the 1938 spring term . . . The increase in wagering was offset by the return of steeple-chasing. . . . Alfred Vanderbilt and associates are well pleased as Bowie and Havre de Grace didnt do so well as their managements had hoped.
