New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-21
NOTES OF THE TURF.

An officer OF a leading Jockey club says: "IheTe
will never be another straight track built In America
Monmouth Park is failure. RacegocrS dislike IL 50
much that they would gladly tnm their backs on IL II
there was another place to 60. If one OF our ccuar
tracks, sheepshead or Gravescnd, would begin racing
today in opposition to Monmouth verify believe MI
Withers would be left without cOrpOrars guard In
LAYING out his monster track why didn't ne ADOPT
some such plan that Of the Paris Jockey CIuD
Why did he adopt the mistake of Morris PARK ana
give us that diagonal straight track with It's con
fusng angle at the nnishl l can tell you one thing
about these straight tracks that few people nave
noticed but which is mighty plain to a close ob'
server: No horse can pack weight over them. IL
we stick to them bound TO lower the scale all
round 1t stands TO reason that such must DC '''c
case straight OF mile or over trcs d horsc
far more than a at the same distance on an oval
track Drive team along straight ROAD ana SEC
how soon vour off horse or your leader IS laying over
ON the pole drive on road with turns ana ouIVo'
and angles and note the difference. Every nsh thaU
ever drove will tell you that he prefers Wihulhe
road TO a perfectly straight one. Moreover ne wants
a road with different grades. up grades down grades
and levels Even locomotive objects 10 perfectly
,.yel track The Eclipse course al Norris PARK is
perfect in its grades. 1t stroke OF genius tiat
left in it, somewhere about quarter rom uc
finish that depression which The Tribune refers 10
as the Valley OF the shadow Of Defeat ana ahother
stroke Of genius that left below ii that gentle rise
firmly convinced that the Valley Of the shadow OF
Defeat has saved many a two-year-oh and many
older horses from utter collapse? The race through
IT, followed by the ascent Of Victory Ii enables d
horse 10 catch his breath and regain his alihg cOu
age If the long straight course at Monmouth hdo
its grade broken in three or four places you "Ouu sec
trle racing would advise Mr. Withers TO regrade II
from beginning TO end leaving here hollow ana there
a hill not too marked mind yOu, but Just sufficient 10
relieve horse from the terrific strain that one set OF
muscles forced TO bear on perfectly lcVel piece Vi
ground race on an oval track is not nearly as
firing as one straight track. No one VIII dispute
that assertion In a mile race mile oval you
have two turns which horse naturally ana neces-
sarily slackens his speed. That rests him and gives
him a chance 10 breathe The change diverts him
also which is good thing and must not be unoer-
yaned You seldom horses swcrve on an oval
track whereas the straight courses they are swerV
ing all the time. How do account for so much
sUervjng at Monmouth Well, the horses down there
get TOO tired TO run straight That's all there is TO It,
Followers Of public form don't like these lon2
straight stretches because they can't tell anythirV
about the happenings in a race. The horse they back
today is beaten of. Tomorrow they let him run
loose and he wins They are much mystlhed tin IL
leaks ont through the paddock that bis defeat was que
10 an interference cross or Joste That KhOchco
him of his stride or TO other accident, but foi
which he would have ON an oval track horse
may be followed with the eye from start to finish ana
II any accident befas him the spectators are sure t.
see it, II he is beaten they able 10 tell why ana
they know what TO expect Of him the next time DC
starts"
The Great Eclipse Stakes at Morris Park next yea
has received 265 entries, the Juvenile 100 anu u
Nursery go. The Wihers Of 1902 has received ~,
entries the Belmont III, The Ladies 1913 the iinntc
have been nominated for the Manhattan Handicap U
bs run In October, and 81 twOyear-0hs fr lh'
Champagne stakes.
that he trut
Of the Saratoga raoetrack has not been told Mr opin
GER II seems has sold the property outright bu
has leased IL for Mr.. Arkell and his asso
ciates and given them option IL for seven. lh'
lest turfncn that the ground has bccon'
entirely too valuable for a rtcecourse. They would
cut II up into building lots and make new tract
further out I'm the woods.
Heard in the st. James Art Gallery. lst night
Hello old sport. got anything good Tor tO-morrOw'
.Tomorrow, TO morrow7 oh, yes, one Of the bcs
things OF the season. 49, $3.50
For goodness sake let me on. What Is iti'
1An umbrella, II IL rains