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Stockton to Build New Fair Plant The Pomona announcement is just one of many "improvement stories" that are bobbing up all over the fair circuit. A new plant is being built at Stockton, home of the San Joaquin County Fair, which we feel sure will enable this pioneer racing plant to perhaps double its attendance and play. Fresno, percentagewise, i has been showing sensational gains and we look for the raisin capital of the world to become a major racing city in its own right, if only for the reason that Fresno has had to fight its way up from obscurity without benefit of "dates of its own." By this, we mean that it has usually overlapped with other meetings and therefore, its president, Tom Dodge, Jr., has had to work doubly hard to upgrade his racing presentations. Clio Hogan, editor of the "Washington Horse," tells us that the first selected sale of yearlings in the modern day history of the state will be held at Longacres on August 23, with entries for said sale closing this Wednesday tomorrow night. It is not a closed sale, and entries aire being accepted from California, Oregon, and British Columbia breeders. "This might be a good opportunity for Californians to sell some of their worth-" While yearlings," suggests Hogan, "although the sales committee must pass on the pedigree, and our field agent, Ed Heimeman, will judge for condition and conformation. I might add that if the Washington Horse Breeders Association is successful in getting enough entries to hold the planned sale in August, it does not mean the Washington market is lost to California or Kentucky. I believe it will have just the opposite effect. More and more of our breeders have been frequenting sales in California and Kentucky in quest of better bloodlines. "This has been a slow process, but it has been picking up steam of late. This year, for instance, we know of several Washington breeders who will be bidding at the W. W. Naylor dispersal at Riverside on Monday, June 27. Breeders in Washington have no illusion of becoming another Kentucky or California but they fully expect to give horses from those states a run for their money one of these days. Actually, many Washington-bred horses have been, and are, racing with credit to themselves and their state in high class events at Hollywood Park, and did so last winter, too, at Santa Anita."
