RICH LOS ANGLES RACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 304, 21 November 1934, Page 10

RICH LOS ANGLES RACE.

AUSTRALIAN HORSES INVITED.

The world’s richest race, the Santa Anita Handicap, of 100,000 dollars (about £20,000), will be run at the inaugural meeting of the Los Angeles Turf Club on February 28, and a cablegram has been received in Melbourne inviting Australian owners to send their best horses to compete.

For many years racing enthusiasts in California have been endeavouring to bring racing back to its former glory. The formation of the Turf Club at Los Angeles and the building of a magnificent race track at Santa Anita, just outside the city limits, have inspired the committee to launch out and give huge prize money for the first meeting, which opens on Christmas Day and ends on February 23, the date of the 100,000 dollars race. Already representatives of the club have visited England and France, and it has been announced that M. Leon Volterra will send Admiral Drake to America to run in the big race. Admiral Drake is English bred, but is owned and trained in France, and won the last Grand Prix de Paris. He will be ridden in California by Steve Donoghue. The Aga Khan intends to send his three-year-old Badruddin, and it is expected that

the best American homes, Cavalcade and Equipoise, will also run. It will thus be eeen from the clas6 of horses engaged that if an Australian owner does decide to make the trip it is no use taking a moderate horse. L. Haigh, who holds Rogilla on lease, stated recently that if he owned the gelding ho would give serious consideration to the question of taking him to Loe Angeles. Under the terms of the usual racehorse lease it is not possible for the lessee to take a horse out of tho country without the permission of the owner.