The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-17
The Sporting Season.

active one, and the sporting community Is
already awake to its Importance On the
turf long and interesting series of events
will follow each other in rapid succession,
beginning with the meeting of the Louisiana
Jockey Club, at New Orleans on Saturday.
and extending far into the winter, when the
second New Orleans meeting closes the
programme of the season. The first meeting
will last week, eighteen races being an
nounced to be run, and the horses will be
almost entirely from the Southern stables.
After the New Orleans races the next in
order is the spring meeting at Nashville,
which begins on the I'd of May. Then follow
the Lexington races from the Sth to the 18th
of May, the Louisville races from the 18th to
the Goth of May, and the Cincinnati races
from the oath to the 9th of May. In this pro-
gramme two points are to be especially
noted-namely, that the two earlier events in
the South are long distance apart, and that
the Cincinnati meeting is identical in time
with that of the Maryland Jockey Club at
Pimlico We infer from this that many of
the Southern and Western stables are not
coming East this year, and if this is the case
it is to be regretted that yicksburg and
Memphis are not to contribute their share
toward The revival Of the turf in the South.
On the Northern circuit the programme will
follow the usual order. The Pimlco races
begin on the Oath of May, and the spring
meeting of the American Jockey Club, at
Jerome Park, follows on the Sd of June.
Tie latter closes on the 18th, and tho time
between this meeting and the meeting at
Monmouth Park, on the I'd of July, will be
well filled by the Point Breeze races, which
last from the Oath to the 2Sth of june The
Saratoga meetings will BIO held between the
25th Of July and the 10th Of August, and the
fall meeting at Jerome Park begins month
later, ending on the 14th Of October Balti-
more and Washington close the season.
more interesting programme could not be
devised, and both the horses and the stakes
give promise of a season brilliant beyond any
that have preceded it,
If we turn from the turf to the other events
which are down in the sporting calendar for
the year we shall find an equally promising
prospect in every direction. In yachting,
besides the usual cruises and regattas, there
is likely to be at least one event of unusual
intcrest-the contest for the Queens Cup,
the possession Of which is coveted by the
new yacht Countess of Dufferin, of the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club. There are technical
difficulties in the way of this match, but we
presume they will be removed and the Cana
dams be afforded the opportunity of winning
the cup which the America brought to this
country quarter of century ago. Nothing
could more conduce to spirited and brill
liant race than the desire to win q prize like
this. and We trust the opportunity of win
ming it will be offered to those who seek it.
The boating interest also gives excellent
promise The season begins with the Har-
lem Regatta, on the 18th of June None
but the clubs on the Harlem River will take
part in this regatta. Later in June the eight
cared race between Harvard and Yale takes
place Mt Springfield, and the intercollegiate
race on Saratoga Lake follows in July. There
is also possibility of an international re-
gatta at Saratoga, while that on the Schuyl-
kill is to follow the regatta of the National
Association OF Amateur Oarsmen. There is
also promise of much activity in base ball,
cricket, handball and racket, and as the
year is one of great national rejoicing a new
impetus cannot fail to be given to manly
and athletic sports of every kind. In all this
we see reason for congratulation, and we
hope the progress of the sporting season will
be at every step as brilliant as the promise.
During the Centennial we want to show our
selves to our foreign visitors at our best, and
in no way can we better do this than through
the athletic games which for years we have
been promoting with as much zeal, at least,
as has been shown by other nations. The
interest Of the season will centre to some
extent in the international matches-the
yacht and boat races and the rifle match
but our credit can only be maintained by
the excellence Of our home affairs, and it is
for these that we are most anxious