Show ARCADIA CALIF santa anitas 1 ra 11 1 plant opened one recent saturday with its million dol lars in prize money and some 40 waiting tor for the windows santa anita and florida together will hang up close to in purses this winter which Is more coin than horsemen have ever looked at in the racing game as far as I 1 can add up the figures but the two main topics of interest you run across out this way are the following 1 how or where can they dig up a horse which can prevent challedon Chal ledon from rom cracking Sea biscuits all time money record with so much gold to shoot at ata 2 will there be truer racing form in the wake of the recent jockey scandal when so many alert riders were located in the pay of crooked gamblers who had no trouble winners in advance this latter system gives the picker on the inside a great chance for a mop up the main idea Is that lie ho cant miss which Is at least financially sounds so those who are arc on the outside meaning only 99 per cent who were badly stung are now now waiting to see what will happen which means that beaten favor lies ites even those beaten on the straight level will be regarded with deep suspicion unless the normal average above 35 per cent is maintained around the east this favorite average was dropping down to something like 25 per cent or less or the size of your hat hal dont think the east was any too pure this riis jockey stuff I 1 can say this much in jerry geisler california has one of the best and smartest ch airmans of a racing commission the sport has ever known ile he Is both completely honest and just as able with sportsmen such as carleton burke and others on the lookout santa anita has built up every known precaution against again st cheating it t will take an extra shrewd manipulator or an extra clever jockey to open some new form of chiseling chi there ther Is nearly always chiseling chi in racing wrestling and the fight game they just happen to be built along those lines in so many ways its a vital part of the trade poli tics bics it so happens that racing has the widest gap of all the drop from such sportsmen as al vanderbilt carleton burke charley howard dill bill boeing and many others to jockeys and a few trainers who happened to be lured by the fragrant odor of cas it if tainted cash Is a thrilling sport on the the average it carries tar far more thrills tor or those who have 2 across or 10 on the nose than any other sport it Is no way to make any money anyone who thinks lie he can beat 12 per cent is what you might call comical in the cupola ask colonel bradley about the extreme ties of beating 5 per cent at roulette or even a steady 4 per cent but as long as the men and women the boys and the girls like to have their whirl why try to stop them you cant anyhow bach to santa anita doc strube general manager of 0 the santa anita track algur figures s thi this will be his best year he has a lock flock of purses that run from to including several tests this naturally has brought out a full share of the best horses in an off year they have ought in crack thor ther froise all over the bombed and un bombed world to run tor for all this money including three of eng lands best st SL andrews 11 II from the brit british I 1 sh isles has run the mile and a quarter in which is motorcycle time but the shadow of challedon Chal ledon the brann blaster the tha maryland special still hangs over kayak II 11 land and others now pointing for or the main swag the 1940 opening was technically or officially known as a gala event where wherein n a flock of motion picture stars shared the spotlight with good horses and more than flower blooms not including orange groves shadowing the rim of the track inspiring as these flowers mountains and orange groves are to argus eyed tourists they are merely incidental ci to most of the fans who co come me here to wat watch ch the horses track surroundings I 1 could tell you again about the snow mow capped peaks that hover over the tropical blooms blooma around the track where they con can handle spectators without too much crowding I 1 could write more about ding bing crosby louis B mayor mayer loretta young pat obrien joe E brown guy kibbee in tact fact about all the th beauty and chivalry all the glamour and oomph domph of hollywood which I 1 can call tell you Is sl strictly t tr those trying to win a bails |