New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-04
CHANGES At MONMOUTH.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE.
STEEP GRADE AT THE NEW wEsTcHEsTER
TRACKS, FEET A SECOND

STEEP GRADE At TIE NEW wEsTcHEsTER
TRACK-G3 FEET A SECOND
While the new track and grand stand at Monmouth
parl, Will not lie ready untl the Of $780, many
improvements are TO be made at tho present course
before the next Fourth Of july when this years rae
ing begins New railroad tracks are to be laid, which
VIII enable trains TO arrive and depart more expe
dl,lously than before though thcre has been no com
plant on this score, the train service to and rom
Monmouth having been excellent In addition TO the
service from Ncw-Yorl special train IS to be run
from Philadelphia this season. the prlco OF the round
trim probably being placed low as 81. 1t IS esti
mated that This train will cost thc road $3.50. Surely
PHILADELPHIA will send more than $50 people TO the
races each day.
besides the improvement In railroad transportation
the water route 10y way Of sandy Hook is to be made
moro agreeable by the addition Of another boar, when
VIII be much faster than either the Monmouth cape
Charles or II. John.
Tie new course is 10 be perfectly level. When
Mr. Cassatt was hero last weck. he aud Me- "ith'r'
visited the costly Wcstchcstcr track Of the New-forA
Jockey GLIB and wcre surprised TO learn that the
holnc-stlctch 100 feet In length, Is 10 have iau
Of seventeen feet or one foot I'm a hundred. ms
IS very steep grade for raceconrsc, and there Is
considerable speculation among owners ana trainers
As 10 the ability Of horses 10 extend themselves l"S
ON such descent. There should be no doubt on this
leforc the American turf became an established In
s,it,tfon ~ the country According to Bill' Scott,
famous ho,s. man In his day. and ono of the keencSt
obor,.ers If a race that ever lived the Derby l.
Generally won by the horse which strides lurthcSt
down hill: and any failure on the Jockeys part 10
encourage his animal TO stretch himself OUT 10 the
utmost Is necessarily fatal 10 the chances of both.
SCOTS theory however, was that no Jockey couid
do Justice to his mount In tho Derby-'he most DIM
c,,, and dangerous course In his opinion, that was
n over anvwberc-unlcss hand and seat kept perfect
time with the horses action
ncfore II was flied In three years ago. the home
strc,cb at Monmouth Park. about 1900 feet 10
length made descent Of five inches 70 tho hundred
feet and General Manager Croft Is OF tho opinion
that even 50 slight grade Is ooJ"Honaoe' 1t 80
recalled that the monster jachrabbits Of Texas arc
never caught by hounds except IN going down hill.
7, ,nak,n, .bo descent those animals arc unable to
Keen mare with the momentum Of their bodies their
lcgs become enangled, they lose tho power Of action
and soon ind themselves rolling over ana over nho
tall Before they can recover tho hounds are upon
them Owners who expect 10 win the iat prizes OF
tho Ncw-Yorb Jockey Club should train their horses
to nun down hill.
The Coney Island Jockey Club announces tA.ce al
dliional stakes for the June meeting eH"'os ~ elVso
April /. They are.
The Good-By Stakes a sweepstakes for two-year.
old-. go each 81 600 addcd special weight condi-
tons, six furl0ngs.
The Time Test Stakes a sweepstakes for all ages,
$50 each. ~ 80 added horses not having record
OF II 10 be allowed 10 b those having record OF
l;l5 TO carry q extra six iurlonsS
The Silrrup cup, for tfrc-yraT-oms ana upWarl :
handicap sweepsiabes $50 each, SI,oOO added ono
and One-half miles. , ,-,,,. 49,.
Captain sam Drown has declared IorchllSht out
Of Ii, brooklyn Jockey Club llafd.cap ...,.-o.o
Few persons hayo talon the tDdoe 10 cstHate
tho distance covered In one second by race lo 80
travelling at high speed. and tfe statement iha an
animal running a milo IN 40 g1os noefly MY thfc
fet IN second invariably carr su add pr la
mile I'm twcDty-one seconds. To do this shc would
have to travel yearly slAty-ihrco toct second
II !, posslb that the season OF IeVV az 'l"'l,ouVl
well Informed in turf matters SAYS mar the eNlsilng
aerccmcn, whereby the New York JIckey Nlup s''s
TIE last two weeks In August IS for ui' year only