The morning call., 1891-02-16
TURF NUTES.
Not Much Hope at Present for a
New Local Race.Track.
The Fcol-Rooms G ranted New Lease of Life.
Mixed Cats in Trotting Races Barred
Winter Racing East.


for building new Tace-track in the suburbs,
and those projectors who have been inter-
ested in the proposition are now reported to
have given up the idea and as being ready
TO leave for England or Australia. With the
po0l-rooms in full blast for another couple
OF years. to get any kind of an attendance
at a local race will be, as it has been in the
past, an impossibility, unless the same ar
Engagements can continue to be made with
the bookies as during the blood horse and
breeders meetings, for the rooms to be
closed nj noon.
The legitimate horseman of the Coast
were in hopes that the statesmen at Sacra-
mento would close the rooms, and then
there would have been chance, with new
race-track, for the breeding and racing in
tereSts Of California to materially advance
Rumor places the amount at S12, 500 that
the bnOk-makeTs offered to the legislators to
convince them that the pool-rooms were not
a prejudice to the public morals and honest
LEGAL racing, but rather direct incentive TO
these two desirable ends.
EASTERN WINTER RACING.
Winter racing at Clifton. N j., has been
stopped for this season by the action of the
courts, wherein the officials were convicted
OF conducting disorderly house in allow
ing betting at the track, heavily fined and
sentenced TO serve one year in State Prison.
The judgment was al peaied, but in the
meantime the Clifton track has been closed
until next fall and the racing transferred 10
Gutenberg, where the weary selling platers
now run every day insted of only twice
week. There Is also racing at Gloucester,
New Orleans and Hot Springs, Ark. The
Dundee track managers, near Clifton, are
also talking of resunlng business at once.
1t IS quite possible that the New Jersey au-
th0niles may make efforts to clUse up Gut
tenberg and Dundee.
EASTERN COMMENT.
The New York Turf, Field and Farm says
edltorially Cd the subject Of winter racing:
As 10 the broad question of winter racing
in New Jersey or any other Northern State,
tins journal las never heSitated 10 charac-
terize it in plain terms as an unmtigated
curse, and prostitution of the nUblest of
sports. Further than that, it is positive
cruelty TO race the WORKOUT plugs that run
at Clifton and Guttenburg through slush
and snow and over frozen ground, in ali
sorts OF weather and in all sorts Of condition.
1t takes no profound knowledge of horse
manShip 10 discern the brutality Of racing
horses in midwinteT. 1t is only IL fool or
knaVe that Will contend that it is possible to
run horse SIX furlOnes or mile at racing
speed in a rigorous northern winter day
without iDjurlng him and causing him suf-
terlnS before lie can be cooled out. AS well
argue that man may walk sheeted out Of a
Turkish bath into a Dakota blizzard without
physical shock. There is no excuse for this
EdlL with SetlDE-plkltTS III New
jersey. These races are patronlZed princl-
pally by the rag-tag and bobtail that cling
to the outer skirts Of the racing community.
Nine tenths of THE regulars" that attend
jersey winter tracks are the hangerS-On Of
ealnblinG-bOuses and dives, frequenters of
the Ternicious pool-rooms of Gotham, aud
women Of the streets. The tracks are run
fer this class, and in the interest solely Of
the proprietoTS and as Scurvy lot of gam
bling bOok-maktrs as can be raked out of
the lower ranks of a profession that is per-
meated with sharks and swindlers. The
suppositiOn OF winter racing in New Jersey
VIII cOnduce TO the general welfare and re-
spectabillty of the turf, and We hope 10 see
II consunuated completely and etfectuaily.
III the vicinity of New York racing can be
pro- erly carried on from April 18th to Nc
vrmber 18Th, and that is certainly a long
enough racing season.
" But what of the finding of the Passaic
court In relation 70 the other tracks? These
men We're nut found guilty for allowing bet
ting on Il race track in winter, but for al
loving betting at all. If the Jersey blue
law Is good in Passaic County it should be
good In Monmouth County, and Hudson
County, and every other county. But. not
outstanding the ferocity of Judge Dixon
and his jury, we expect to see racing as
usual at Elizabeth and Linden next spring
and fall, and at Monmouth throughout the
summer months. No doubt the Trenton
Legislature viii pass law regulating the
muses. NltEUub interfering Will me proper
uses of the turf. and indeed We are already
informed that concerted action is being
taken. 1t is stated that committee of five
representing the turf interest, waited upon
Governor Albeit, and the Governor is re-
ported as having said, quite wisely and
properly, that be would not under any cir
cumstances sanction any measure anthoriz-
ing winter racing. The Inference, then, is
that he will sanction one regulating the sport
in the proper season, and we hope to soon
hear that the Jersey Lawmakers have en-
acted u measure similar to the Ives bill in
New York, which restricts betting 10 the
race-tracks and practically prohibits racing
except in spring, summer and autumn"
THE SPRING HANDICAPs.
Much discussion is now going on in all the
turf journals of the country over the
weights allotted 10 the entries for the Brook
lyn and Suburban handicaps. As a general
rule there is but little fault found with the
landscapes, and the prospect for a grand
race On both events IL very bright The ac-
ceptances are due next Friday, February
Goth, when better opinion can be formed
of what horses stand the best chances of
winning. Local books on both events will
be opened. One of the first declarations
after the announcement of weights for the
Suburban is that of Mr.. Shippe's four-year-
old colt Fellowcharm. by Longfelow, out
of Irinket. The colt was in at 80 pounds.
TO BE SOLD EAST.
To-day the consignmeuts to the first an
nual California Breeders Combination sale
at New York, commencing on March 3D.
will leave the Coast. William Corbett
sends forty-two head, the get of Guy Wilkes
and Sable Wilkes; these Will be sold on
March Sd. L. j. Rose sends nine youngsters
by StambOul and AlcaZar. His sale date is
March 4th. G. Valensin has twenty-one,
all by Sidney, except two by Semicolon.
Frank II. Burke sends twenty, mostly the
get of Eros, one of the best sons of the de-
thac
ought TO bring good prices as they are by
the best sireS on the Coast out of selected
mares.
EARLY WESTERN EVENTS.
The first stake Of real importance 70 be
run in the West this season is the Tennessee
Derby at Memphis for three ear-Olds, mile
and furOng The result will give line
on the other classic events that follow close
after It, There are forty entries, those that.
showed the best two-year-old form last year
Washington, Mllt Young. Ethel, Philora,
Tom Mackiu, Faithful, Chimes and Bore
ais. Roseland and Dundee are now thought
to have the best chances Of success.
ENTERED AT CHICAGO.
California will be well represented, not
ID the several rich handcaps offered by the
Chicago Jockey Club, as the following en-
tries show: In the lakewood are EmIna
Nevada and Garcia. by Thomas Hazlett;
AlmOnt, by George Hearst d Son; Long
shot. by the Lakeland Stable; Sinfax, by Cy
Mulkey; Racine and Nero, by the Palo Alto
Stable; Homer. by Ira Ramsdell; Peri and
Conrad, by l.. }. Rose; Santiago and Clio
by e. j. Baldwin; Fellowcharm and Take
Notice. by l.. U. Shippee; Al Farrow, by
". il. d. Smith; II. Stover's Joe Woolman;
Suisun Stables Hotspur, and Theodore
Winters Princess of Norfolk. In the
Wheeler Handicap, which has 1873 numina-
tons, one nile and a quarter. with 5000
added, Thomas Hazlett names Garcia and
Louise NJ; George Hearst. AImOnt; Cy Null
KEY, SinfaX Palo Alto, Racine and Nero Ira
Ramsdell, Homer and oscar; l.. j. Rose,
Conrad, Peri and Blanca; E. J. Baldwin,
Santiago, Cleopatra, EsperanZa aud Los
Angeles; l.. U. Shippee, Take Notice and
Fellowcharm; p. Sebenthaler, Sheridan;
W. II. E. Smith, Al Farrow; Suisun stable,
HOtspur; Theodore Winters, Leh aud No
retta. In the Boulevard Stakes, which is a
weight-for-age stake, with penalties and