Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-14
Association Record,
THE EASTERN RACE TRACKS.
Interesting Statements About Who Gets
the Money That fs Bet.

Interesting Statements About Who Gets
the Money That is Bet.
A correspondent of the Horseman has the
following very interesting statements to make
about the Eastern race tracks:
In the ranks of this sadly depleted body of
hackers and layers the question of the hour is
"Who has got the money!" Certainly the book.
makers have not for not 5 per cent of the ex.
isting e1emplars of the survival of the fttest''
have now balance on the right side of their
speculative ledgers. In most cases the deficit
is a large one. And as to the public, it has had
such Waterloo this year that the few winners
of note can probably be counted on the fingers
of ones hand
Then who has got the money? The answer
is easy, apparently. A few racing owners such
as the Dryers, Belmont, Scott Sam" Brown
and the Haggins, the racing associations and
the transportation companies that manage the
boat and rail routes converging on our metro
politan tracks
The recent list of winning owners at Graves
end last month showed the Dwyers as winning
one-third of the entire amount of added money
given at their track. As the pioneer member
of the firm is a heavy bettor, it is safe to say
that he derived large profits from his wagers on
their horses: Only four days ago at Jerome
Park Michael Dwyer was credited with winning
some SIS, 600 on the successive victories of King
Crabb, Pontia and Aurania, and as most OF the
bookmakers were full Oh these horses when
the betting closed, there is no doubt that he hit
VIC ing hcdNAg. 1ucsc ucdty WINNINGS
came from the pockets of the racing public,
through the bookmakers who from the rank
and file of the bettors derive their capital.
The boat and rail routes have averaged dur
ing the season receipts, collectively, of some
81 900 to s., 600 daily, which all comes directly
from the public purse, cash down; not like
Tom Ochiltree's famous bet at Ivy City race
course, which was 95 per cent of it on credit"
"As to the racing associations, they have up to
this era of 'clashing' now in the act. had
perfect bonanza of it. With the bookmakers
and other privileges, almost enough to pay
their daily added money to stakes and purses
they have derived most substantial daily
profits from the gate which has never been
so steadily profitable to them as during the
season now drawing to close. The BROOKLYN.
Coney Island, Monmouth, Brighton, Clifton.
Gutenberg and Saratoga Associations have
never had SO profitable year as this, and the
public pockets have supplied this golden graft.
From this happy family of Jockey clubs.
however, the American and New York clubs
Will probably have to be eliminated when their
mutual accounts are compared and balanced on
October 10. when they each haul down their re-
epectlve nags. Saturday last was the fourth
day OF the regretted clsshing of their fall meet
ings, and, although the weather has been
favorable, on no one day could there possibly
have been sught but large deficit TO each
club. In the case Of jerome Park, which gives
during its meetings some $4,000, the most
money Qess the extra days which Morris Park
reached so far some $500 daily,
Morris Park, with q third more bookmakers
than at Jerome, has lost, SO far, possibly, SIS