New-York tribune., 1889-12-30

| IN the roido The younger men OF the ciuD ao
enthusiastically in favor of holding on TO the DIG mouse
The dues are only $25 yet several have eApIe'scu
willingness to nav $50 year rather than give 1t up
As racinc association the American Jockey Club ap-
pears to have been retired; as social Dody IL may
| continue to live.
As to the future Of Jerome Park it is probable that
the American Pony Racing Association VIII lease tne
track for a playground. Representatives oil ule
Rockaway Hunt the Meadowbrook, the Huntingdon
the Country Club Of Westchester, and the Essex
County Club held meeting recently, at wmch steps
were taken for the formation OF an organization hou
eled on the plan Of the National Pony ana galloway
Racing Association Of England. committee COLI
sIstng of II. L. Herbert, A. b. Purdy, J. X. "oou'
A. c. Tower and James Smith was appom-ed W
frame rules for the of the proposed asso
citation, and to call convention next month Oh All
the hunting and country clubs between Boston ana
Washln gton for the purpose Of organizing it, IL Is
believed that the association will start with member
ship OF between 500 and 600. The object OF me asSo-
citation is to regulate the racing Of ponies, when mas
become general among the hunting and country cuDS'
Under the rules to be adopted, which follow those OF
the English model, the ponies and their owners ana
riders are be registered and pony IS 10 be al
lowed on the tracks of the association OF which the
registration has not thus been three fold There VIII
consequently be no racing under false colors. Inc
promoters OF this movement desire to encourage
healthy, amusing honest sport The betting element
will be kept In the background-t may be eliminated
entrely--in which case the sport could
be practlsed in the fall and spring without
infringing the law. There seems to be an impression
abroad that racing in New York before May Is and
after October Is is prohibited by law. such of
course Is not the Racing without betting may
continue the year round
Pony racing and steeplechasng usually 90 hand in
hand and, as previously stated in this column there
is no better place for either or both than Jerome Park
As soon as the new club IS organized it should take
steps to secure a lease Of the property.
The wide discussion of the question OF short distance
racing and its consequences will have no effect the
Jockey clubs I'm the United states this year. and prob
ably none for years TO come. Here IS the situation
put I'm n nutshell by wellnOwn turfman: " In order
that the betting privileges Of our tracks may be
made salablc they must be made valuable; in order
TO make them valuable, we must bring large fields
to the post Large fields make heavy betting, and
sequently big profits for the bookmakers In races
under a mile we have no trouble in getting from
twelve to twenty starters As the distances increase
the fields decrease the betting falls Off business is dull
in the ring, and the boolmakers growl turn their
sales and threaten to retire. With big fields a stand
is worth 800 day; with small fields in which there
is usually a topheavy favOrite it is not worth half
as much. There's the rub. The clubs must encourage
big fields, in order to keep the bOOkmakers."
"Poo Jim is not dead notwithstanding all re-
ports to the contrary. He had close call from
pneumonia, but passed the crisis safely. and is now
on the mend. The announcement Of Jm's death
caused sincere sorrow and regret among all classes
Of turfmen. lie is one of the prime favortes Of
the racetrack. and Mr.. Caldwclrs assistant Is
known on nearly every in the country. During
tho winter lie puts on fine blue uniform ana looks
after opera -goers and their carriages at the Thirty
+I,o Iofro Iitap Omar
McIa,fuhlln exockey and ex-starter, takes charge
q Pierre Lorard's horses bn January l. As
Jockey Mclaughlin took the highest rank, but as
,.ar.er he was not conspicuOusly successful AS
trainer his career will be watched with interest.
A story comes from the West that Theodore Winters
the owner of FL Rio Rey is candidate for Governor
of Nevada and has good chance to get the office
u everything goes well with the colt The people OF
Nevada are so proud Of Ell Rio Rey that II MT
Winters self him he will be defeated In the e.ection
70 n moral certainty. The thoroughbred Is new
element in politics.
al have it on the best authority" said leading
boolmaker a day or two ago. 4" that the pooIrooH'
nuisance In NcwYork will be carried before the Legs
laturc for abatement"
win the Jockey clubs press the matterl" he was
asked.
"Jockey cliIbs' Goodness. no! Why should the
Jockey clubs close the poorooms Don't the rooms
nav the clubs for the privilege of existing and doing
business? OF course they don't pay em direct but 10
amounts to the same thing the pooroom CORE
spondcnt pays the clubs handsomely for the right to
telegraph racing news from the tracks. It's to the
interest of the clubs to keep the rooms booming
BY doing that they cut down their gate receipts
"CertainIy. Fifteen thousand men and BOYS bet in
these rooms every day the Clifton Gutenberg OF
New orleans races"
"Not so many as that
"Well III say 10000. ! can count up that many
easily enough"
The prediction is made in many quarters that Bergen
will succeed Mclaughlin as the foremost jockey III
America in 1890. \ vigorous competition for his
services is going on between the Dwycrs and G. Wal
baum. Bergen is capital judge OF pace. he knows
how to watt he is perseverng and conscientious but
he can never hope to get away from the post as
Mclaughlin did. nor can he expect TO finish with
Garrison or Hamilton
1t is said that the only correct likeness Of Eectoneer
ever published appears in the December number OF
"wallaces Monthly" Elcctioneer Is so great among
horses that the world ought to be better acquainted
with him. lie has proved himself the best trotting
sire n tho IIambletonian family. lie has not only
as matter OF fact, but as matter OF record sired
more fast trotters q 2O than any other horse living
or dead He has sired the fastest two year old the
fastest three ycaroh and the fastest four old on
record and the fastest yearling was got by his son
out of his half sister over % per cent Of the 30
trotters sired BY Ecctoncer have trained on to 90
honors No other sire has produced two horses as
fast as sunol 2IOl-2, and Pao Alto IL 1-l.
Electionccrs stud services did not begin till 1877
therefore his family is but eleven years old
OF the difficulty In obtaining likeness OF the noted
sire Leslie f. Macleod who visited Pal0 Alto for that
purpose, says:
Probably upon no horse in the world have so
many been evelled, with. no doubt. good in
tenons, but certainly with dabolical results. After
seeing some square yards OF photographs and draw
ings with 'Eectoneer' written under them, l con
cuded that there would have TO be something new
under the SUM- The most celebrated photographer