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California By Kent Cochran San Jose May Have Racing Next Year Mare Back Racing After Long in Nursery Film Patrol Pix Reach Stewards Quick QuickBAY BAY MEADOWS San Mateo Calif May 3 Santa Clara County owns one of Californias oldest and finest race tracks at San Jose but so far during the present 1933 the county lias held aloof from the sport so far as pari mutuel wagering is concerned In the meantime several other fairs such as the State Fair at Sacra ¬ mento and county fairs at Pleas anton Vallejo and Santa Rosa have developed profitable and highly popular race meetings We learn that at long last there is a movement on foot in San Jose to go in for racing beginning next year The Santa Clara fair grounds track is the old fullmileMira Monte course built in 1915 by Dr Harry J Macomber and later leased for several years by Norman Church as a training quarters Dr Macombers heirs sold the track and its environs to the county 10 years ago at an extremely low price by way of aiding in the building of a fine fair grounds Time was 50 years ago when San Jose conducted some of the finest racing in the West U S Senators George Hearst and Leland Stanford Lucky Baldwin Theodore Winters and other stalwart racing figures of the Gay Nineties regularly raced strong stables at the track down near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay It was there that C H Todd set a track record before being shipped to Chicago to take the American Derby of 1887 1887Jayx Jayx Tyson has taken out a trainers license and will take over the conditioning of his own horses four in number Frankie Jo a gelding by Mafosta wears hair on his fetlock joints which would da credit to a Clydesdale Nat Schwartz in process of being li ¬ censed as an owner and trainer by the racing board left for Reno on a matrimonial mission He is to be married there Saturday to Miss Donna Gore of Bend Oregon Schwartz plans to buy a few head and then branch out as a public trainer Shirley Temple Black looking not a day older than when she renounced the movies for marriage guest of Mrs Marilyn Gunder son wife of Bob Gunderson Bay Meadows director of operations operationsMcRoberts McRoberts Latest JockeyResturanteur JockeyResturanteurBobby Bobby McRoberts stewards aide and sometimes patrol judge has gone eateryminded along with Ralph Neves Ray York Basil James and Don Meade Like the others Bobby will stick with the race track and employ help to operate his restaurant which is called Mc ¬ Roberts Kountry KitcHen and is situated at Garden Grove a village near Santa Ana Bobbys wife has vol ¬ unteered to serve as overseer Free coffee and dough ¬ nuts to all active jockeys free stew to all downandout exriders says Bobby who rode with success for many years Steve Hammond flew up from Greenacres Farm Chino in his private plane to see Swift Sting go in the third Wednesday The gelding finished second Is a juvenile son of Hammonds sire Scorpion II IIIn In Europe the race track chemists collect sweat in order to detect the use of drugs instead of urine as is the practice in America The first stimulant ever given to race horses so far as recorded history goes was Hydomel a mixture of honey and water which chariot drivers let their horses drink in ancient Rome The sugar in the honey is an energizer energizerWonder Wonder if Del Mar will get the ninthraceaday it has requested Maybe not daily but wei imagine the racing board will grant at least one extra race per week say on Wednesdays The Little Saratoga of the West entertains summer vacationists the days are long and made longer still lay daylight saving time and the oversupply of twoyearolds combine to make de ¬ sirable and reasonable a relaxing of the rule which now limits the number of races to eight except on Satur days and holidays especially for the states one and only bona fide vacation track Florida and other states east of the Mississippi in recent years adopted a nineadayeveryday policy policyLong Long Time Between Races for One Patch PatchHere Here is a racingbreeding oddity The mare One Patch was placed in the nursery at Harry Warners WL Ranch in 1951 at the age of four and has been in the nursery ever since but never had a baby Even ¬ tually George Faris of Columbia Farms Sacramento bought her out of a sale at Pomona for mating with Sturdy One Again she failed to conceive So Paris de ¬ cided that inasmuch as One Patch seemed barren for life it would be doing her a favor to provide an occu ¬ pation So as she was perfectly sound he placed her back in training and she made her first start here recently her first time at post in seven years One Patch won six races at two and three and was in the money 21 times BjNDogpatch One Jest by On Watch she is halfsister to Jestosorno One Trust and One Hope and fullsister to Jest Patch all good winners winnersBay Bay Meadows gets mighty quick photo patrol pix Faster than most tracks because the film slides down wires from the homestretch lens tower and the grand ¬ stand cupola almost directly to the developing room whereas at other tracks the reels have to be shagged shaggedContinued Continued on Page Thirtyfight CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIABy By KENT COCHRAN Continued from Page Four Foursome some distance by bicycle or auto Five to seven minutes after the horses cross under the finish wire the film is in the projector ready for the Bay Meadows stewards when they file in after descending from the roof The films are rushed through following eveiy race whether there is an inquiry or not notEarle Earle Lewis director of racing at Lans downe Park Vancouver here contacting horsemen with a view to getting stables stablesfor for the Dominion track Merlin Volzke Volzkewho who has made his own riding engagements all meeting now has turned his book over to Richard Sievers of El Cerrito Sievers formerly had an interest in a few race horses Statistician Dick Nash calls attention to four foreignbreds winning at Bay Meadows last Saturday to set a new American record The outlahders were 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