The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
THE HORSE.
How Horse Racing Pays as Shown by OH
cial Gate Receipts Mt Eastern Courses.

How Horse Racing Pays as Shown by OH
cial Gate Receipts at Eastern Courses.
The reports of the several racing as
sociatiOns in New York, now beine
made to the State Comptroller, fur.
nish interesting reading to race-goers
as they show the exact amounts taken
in gate money on each day of every
meeting, and furnish some idea of the
profits or losses of the different clubs.
The Brooklyn Jockey Club reports
that during their spring meeting the
gate receipts amounted to $68, l47 fol
thirteen days-an average OF 49,
day. The opening day. when the
Brooklyn Handicap was run, was the
best, the gate taking in $lS, 637 on that
occasion. Decoration Day ranks sec.
Ond, with Sll. 2S6. The least taken in
on any day was Monday, May 20, when
the weather was cloudy and the gate
yielded only 5000.
During the September meeting at
Gravesend, $40, 342 was taken in at the
gate in twelve days, an average of
SO, 1862, showing that the interest in
the sport had declined somewhat
through the surfeit of everyday racing
from May to September. The best
day was 6,040; the poorest, $2,0S3.
The sum total of the gate receipts
at the two Gravesend meetings is
STA, $50, daily average of $4,579. On
this the club contributes percentage
of S., 724, which, under the provisions
of the Ives pool law, will be used in
creating prizes for agricultural affairs
throughout the State.
At Brighton Beach the admission
money during the year amounted to
$44 227 80 in twenty-nine dayS-an
average of 1925. On this the associ-
alton pays over to the State percent
age of $2,2ll.37.
The New York Jockey Club gave ten
days racing at West Chester during
the inaugural meeting last August
and its gate keepers collected sum
total of $40, 759-an average of $4,675 a
day. The largest receipts were $3.50,
and the smallest 2,S37.
The nomenclature of trotting horses
has some interest, though as a rule
there is in these names little to indi-
cate family or race, except in cases OF
certain families of thOrOughbredS
where it is sometimes possible to have
four, five or six generations by the
clues given by the names of prominent
individual performers. AS many re-
markable performers have had a more
or less hap-hazard breeding, their
names are also of hap-haZard sort,
depending on the caprice of the owner.
Maud S. was named after the daugh-
ter of Capt Stone who had the man.
agement of this peerless mare for
some years. Jay-Eye-See was named
after j. |. Case, his owner. Sunol after
a Sacramento suburb; AXtell after a
school teacher at Independence, Ia;
st. Julien after the name of favOrite
brand of wine: Rarus, when he showed
rare powers had to have IA name, and
the word rare was latinized to tit him;
Goldsmith Maid derived her name
from her owner as Johnston the PAGER,
wears that of his trainer: Occident,
naturally, became famous in the
West.
During the past season the enOrm-
Gus sum of 81, Ala, 925 has been contrib
uted in added money by the various
raciug associations in the vicinity of
New York.
One of the best of the English
trainers of the past. John Scott, said,
with no accidents or disease in the
way, he would agree to have horse
in condition at specified day. but
that he would not contract to keep it
there for forty-eight hours.
1t is reported that "Mr. MantOn'
the Duchess of Montrose)was offered
10000 ($l00,000) for the celebrated
twO-year old FLY Riviera after she
had won the Portland stakes at Lie
cestcr. This is pulling up toward
American prices.
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know that % cent bottle cured me
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Myriads of cases of rheumatism and
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Price only % cents bottle.
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kidneys.
Rutland Sports.
The northern part Of Rutland is a
great squirrel country, and many OF the
farmers in that neighbOrhood have
dogs Of more or less capabilities Of tree
ing squirrel. John Thompson has "A
dog, that if he hears a squirrel bark IA