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SECRETARY'S LETTER. 



Stockton, December 19th, 1878. 

 Honorable Robert Beck: 



Dear Sir: With tliis I beg to hand you, for publication in your 

 report for this j'ear, a copy of our new Constitution, a record of races 

 over our course for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, our 

 Treasurer's report, and report of financial transactions and condition 

 of the Society December second instant. 



IMeaso return or destroy the financial statement I sent you dated 

 November fourteenth. 



Very respectfully, 



J. M. LaRUE, Secretary. 



SPEED PROGRAMME. 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th. 



Class I. — Running. 



San Joaquin Stock Breeders' Stake — Three hundred dollars. Three-quarter mile dash ; Joe 

 Daniels' colts only. 



J. II. Tone's ch. f. Maggie Early ; dam. Ellondale 1 



A. Terry's s. f. Bessie Sedgwick; dam, Minnie Smith 2 



II. S. Sargent's s. c. Shamiis O'Brien ; dam, Lady Satterly 3 



J. A. She])hard's g. c. Lathrop; dam, Susie Shejihard 4 



ri»ic— 1:20. 



Class II. — Trotting. 



Purse — Eiglit hundred dollars. Mile heats, best three in five ; two minutes and forty seconds 

 class; lor horses owned in the State. 



M. W. Hicks, b. m. Corisande, by Iowa Chief 4 1 1 1 



G. A. TiH'any's b. g. Gibraltar, by Echo 1 .i 4 ." 



John Williams' b. g. Harry, by ila]ipy Medium « 2 3 2 4 



P. W. Nwman's b. m. Lady Emmet, siro unknown 5 4 3 2 



J. W. Knox, 1). b. Abbotsford, by Woodford Membrino 3 2 5 5 



Time— 2:27 ; 2:2C,\ ; 2:26* ; 2:27. 



Class III. — Trotting. 



Stallion Purse — Three hundred dollars. Mile heats, best three in five; for stallions owned or 

 standing in the district prior to April twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. 



Fred Arnold's 1). b. Nepliew, four years old, by Ilambrino 1 1 1 



S. Lomliard'rt b. b. Peerless, by (ioo. Knox 2 2 2 



J. If. Dodge's s. h. Western Boy. by Cliieftain 3 3 3 



J. M. Learned's b. h. Reliance, by Alexander dis. 



Time— 2:39; 2:37i; 2:37S. 



