The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-30
TURF NOTES.
New Jersey Race-Traeks to Be
Closed This Year.
preparaticns at the Bay District Track for the
Blood-Horse Spring Meeting-sinfax
Goes Lame.

LEGISLATURE to pass a bill permitting betting
on the race-tracks in that State the opinion
Is generally entertained in the East that
there will be no racing this year at the
summer tracks, and that the Monmouth
Park, Linden and Elizabeth tracks will not
be open this season. NJ. F. Dwyer, Presi-
dent of the Elizabeth jockey Club, thinks
the prospects for racing in New Jersey this
year most disccuraging, and that the future
of racing in the State has very dismal out
look. He says that he will hold his spring
meeting at Elizabeth even without betting,
but that it is bound to be financial failure.
Should these three tracks be closed it Will
be very severe blow to Eastern racing,
especially the stopping of the Monmouth
Park meeting. At this place the nomina-
tons to the stake events number 2S16, and
as the open races outnumber the stake races
by at least to one some idea can be formed
of the magnitude of the interests involved.
RETRIBUTIvE JUSTICE.
The action Of the New Jersey authorities,
however. is only retributive justice. The
outrageous swindling robbeTieS at the New
Jersey winter tracks at Clifton, Gutenberg,
Dundee and Gloucester have increased so
greatly every year that when the culminat-
ing point was reached this season an out
ragged Justices call for redress was finally
listened TO and the robbers rOost at Gill
ton closed. Then followed the present
action and New York reports now state
that Gutenberg viii tin6 its gates closed
inside of TWO weeks. Monmouth Park,
Linden and Elizabeth are now suffering
from the winter racing rascaltles, not
Justly, perhaps, but the cutlery against The
New jersey swindes became too strong,
and public opinion, as 1t ever does when
fully aroused, swept all before II. Inc
public is long suffering, but there is hmlt
even TO its submission to the robberles OF
rascally bOOk-makers, swlndling owners,
trainers and jockeys and corrupt judges.
All over the country comes demand Tor
protection against sharperS in horse-raclng,
and the winter races this season at New Or
leans and Hot Sprir IS have happily proven
failures by the non-attendance of the pub
lie, who refused to be any longer robbed.
BLooD-HoRSE RACES.
The outlook for the complete success of
the blood-horse spring meeting at the Bay
District track grows better aud better every
day. The Track Committee is pushing the
repairs TO the course very Rapidly. All the
fencing has been repaired, no slight JOD IN
itself, and attention is now directed to get
ting the track in proper order. Over 200
horses are expected at the track to take
part in the races and Track Superintendent
Dustin is quite exercised 10 find room Tor all
of them. A close inspection the other day
showed IIldI OILY lOl SldIIS Ntlt dNuithbIts
and then only by boxing up some of the
shedding used for 70 ID drivers. Fifty more
stalls will be built, and 1t is hoped that
with the stdbing at the Villa enough room
will be had, but it Will be close pinch ana
probably most of the trotterS will have TO
20 over to the Oakland track during the
meeting.
BY the end of the week many of the sta
bles entered at the meeting will put in an
appearance at the Bay District and give the
finishing touches to the preparation OF their
entries.
The San Jose meeting begins next Satur-
day, and an excellent programme has been
arranged. 1t closes on the 9th prox., and
Oh The 18th the Blood Horse opens its
gates.
sINFAx GOES LAME.
Sinfax, promising three -year-old, went
lame at San jose last week while at work,
ard some reports stated that he had broken
down. he Will probably not start here this
| spring. If he rounds to he will go East this
| summer and try his luck there.
Los Angeles reports state that Fairy in
the Rose string, has recovered from her
| lameness, aud is working miles with her
shoes on and weight up in :43. .Odette, IN
| the same stable, and Brooklyn and Sub
| urban candidate. is doing excellent work.
! Sic recently showed a mite and a quarter
NEW RACING ,7T.UI5.
The old Capital City Turf Club of Sacra-
mento has been reorganized and will give a
| spring meeting Of mixed racing commencing
| May 9TH. Entries are expected from most
| OF the stables at the Blood-horse meeting
| The $1,000 left over from last years spring
meeting of the Agricultural Society has
| been turned over to the Turf Club.
Jockey Decker, who has been riding with
some success this winter at the New Jersey
tracks, was recently killed by falling from
a train While going from Gutenberg 10 Nor
ris Park.
a match for $1,000 side has been agreed
upon between the ell-kn0wn Bourbon
County turtles, the Talbot Brothers. and
MI. a. W. Tuner, the former to start Bru-
tuS, by Billet, aud the latter names London
Smoke, by imp. London. The match will
be run at the Lexington spring meeting,
and the distance one and a sixteenth miles.
Bowen d Armstrong have also matched
their twO-yeaT-old HlndOOgam, by Hindoo.
against Mccartney 81 Ellis two-year-old
Lady Claxton for 5000 side. A forfeit of
$1,000 has already been deposited in the lat
ter match.
An Eastern exchange says that one of the
reasons for the low averages brought by
Nalensin's Sydney stock at the recent New
OK sales was that many of them had
white faces and legs.
BREEDING FOR SPEED.
Campbell Brown, the Tennessee breeder.
is as earnestly endeavOring to produce the
two-minute PAGER as the more northern
breeders are to produce the two-minute
trotter, AID 1t must be said that the chances
are that five years from now Mr.. Brown will
nave come nearer 10 doing SO more times
than any breeder will have done with trot-
tiers. Mr.. Browns latest move is the pur-
chase OF the dam of the famous roam PAGER
y u, 2:1312, and the two full sisters to that
horse. he old mare will be bred to Brown
Hal, 2:1212, and the tillies will be bred to son
OF Brown Hal. whoSedam was the dam of Hal
Pointer, 2;c9A. With this kind of breeding
Tennessee should lose none of the reputa-
ton she now has of furnishing the grand
circuit with sensational PAGERS.
1t may not be generally known that Po-
tomac and Strathmeath are among the en-
tries in the American Derby at Washington
Park.
Highland Farm, it is said, has refused two
offers of $4,000 eacn for Alcantara.
1t Is proposed to have the track lighted