New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-07

| department. OF the tnlf has been simply
marvellous. The attendance at races in
creased, the number of horses in training was
greatly enlarged, the sales of yearlings brought
in doubled and even trpled receipts, and the
| interest in the thoroughbred was vastly ex-
tended and intensified. The Monmouth Park
Association, having passed under the con-
! troll OF some o. the most honored gentlemen
connected with the turf, so improved it's course
and so added to the attractions of its pro-
| granmes as to collect such crowds as had not
been seen at q racetrack for ten years before.
The American Jockey Club was aroused to
new life and activity and its meetings were
made more interesting and important. Some
OF its most prominent members resolved on
forming a new association which should give
races by the seaside at a time when the heat
made jerome Park q place to be Stunned
rather than sought. The Coney Island Jockey
! Club, with its really admirable grounds, was
the result.
No such season as the present has ever been
known on the American turf. It's crowning
| t1umphs, the winning of tho Derby with
| lroquois and the Grand Prize of Paris with
Foxhall, have universally expanded and
| heightened an interest already extensive and
noteworthy. The effect has been seen in the
| South and West as well as in the North and
East The successes of the two American colts
abroad could not be considered sectional.
| though the owners of both are New-Yorkers
| The victories belonged to the whole country
and they started wave of enthusiasm in
every State where the excellence of blooded
stock was known. At St. Louis, at Chicago,
at Cincinnati, and other Western cities the
| racing meetings held subsequent to Derby
day were more successful than those
OF any previous year. The American Jockey
Club rejoiced over the rush to FOrdham. Day
after day such multitudes gathered at Graves
end as to show TO the dullest mind what a new
hold racing had taken on New-York and al
the region roundabout The scenes mt Long
Branch We're similar And now at Saratoga
the experiment of giving races week after week
with only Sundays TO take breath in appears
to be prospecting. 1t was certainly n hazardous
enterprise TO ask the public to support six
weeks of uninterrupted sport. But men and
women alike have gone out to the course in
! larger numbers Than Ill any previous year, and
IN many elements of success the undertaking
has satisfied those responsible for it. Yet.
after all, it is question whether it will be
wise to try to do so much another wear.
month Of unbro<on racing on any one track
should be enough TO content the most ardent
admirer of the turf, or if it is desired to ex-
tend the meetings through six weeks some in
tervals of repose would be to the advantage
OF horses owners and spectators alike. Even
though there are more than three hundred
horses III raining at Saratoga, including tho
best from the stables of every part of the
country, and though the contests thus far have
not been lacking in variety, there is danger of
the reaction likely to follow OVERRIDING any,
thing.
AS to the character of the racing this year,
1t has been brilliant enough to justify the in
creased interest in it. The time records az
various distances have been cut down. In
HindOo lovers of racing are glad to find peer
for Iroquois. While the latter keeps up the
standard of the American turf abroad. the for
mer does not allow its reputation at home to
be obscured. Hindoo has not suffered defeat
at all in 1881, and when he was beaten last
year he was not in proper condition to run.
In Glenmore and Checkmate we lave cup
horses little ii at all, inieyiOr 10 tho BaSsctts
and LongtollOws OF the past. Among the two
year-olds, Runnymede seems fullest of promise.
now that Mr.. Pierre Lorilard has sent Sachem
aud Gerald to England to prepare then,
for the Derby of 1882. If Runnvmede.
now the property of the Dwyer Brothers, shall
prove competent successor to Lake Black
burn and Hindoo, as seems not ALTOGETHER i'm
pIopdole, III" brooklyn stable has certainly
made a fortunate Investment.
The racing season is somewhat more than
half spent. Mucl has been seen. lint
much remains behind. Next Saturday ibe
Monmouth park Association will be ,in its
August mtetine Of seven successive DAVIS
only broken b. Sunday, and the liberal
ity OF Its programme and the reputation of the
horses that are to run will crowd its grounds
with people from New-Jersey, New YORK and
more distant points August ~ will mari, tho
opening OF three weeks meeting at Graves
end, where the choicest OF the racers both from
the East and West will appear, as in 1850.
The Long Island Stakes of four mile booto
which was so popular last year will
DO repeated on tie closing day, and
DIS ChecKmate and GlemnOre are expected to
meet IL VIII cause great stir. Even distant
Minnesota has been reached by the food of
turf enthusiasm, and race of four-mile heats
Is announced for the next month in thar State
with prizes large enough to tempt the owners
of good horses
Inc great contest of September in the rac;,,
wofid Will DO at Doncaster, England, where
the ST. Legcr, race that ranks next to tbo
Dorpy and the Grand Prize, will be decided
lroquois is now thought the probable winner of
this famous race but many victor in tbo
Derby has failed to cross the line frat at Dow
caster. The chances and changes of the turf
are proverbial. If Iroquois wins the ST. Teoor
the most stubborn of the ENGLISH cr;t;cs 30 |
tried to account for his success at Ensom ON |
other grounds than those of high merit win 10
silenced. Even II he is beaten he will NOT |
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