New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-18
AMONG TIE HORSEMEN.
SHALL THE WEIGHTS BE EAISED?
VIEWS OF \ II. MORRIS AND SECRETARY
MIHTYRE-OLD AND NTW RACING
Alfred Hcnncn Morris would Ike to sec the haniicai

MINTYRE-OLD AND NIW RACING.
Alfred Icnnen Morris would Ike to the haniicap
weights raised ia this country.
Il think.7 he said. might well make Tie
top weight l3j pounds. | am sure Vat IL D. ~ L"
A. II. Morris had "a horse capable OF carrying WrSht
they woal1 not declare him because the hanlcappcF
gave HIM 100 pounds We Ike u see ho.s'' win
with weigh, up. believe it would be u good tang
to raise the scale. 1t would give jockeys better
chance, aud be stronger test OF the horses
Mr. Morris does not approve the English plan OF
moving up the lower weights when tho top weight l.
declared out there is always an opening for fraud
secretary Mcintyre OF the brooklyn and Ncy-Jerrey
Jockey Clubs, man OF practical tica' and WELDON
dcrcd theories, Is stoutly opposed 10 raising the hand
esp weights The writer believed that this able
Handicapped wa, particularly anxious to bnns the
stake horse down 10 the level of the selling Platter
Ills dcairc and his delight 10 bring to the post
the best horses eligible FOR a regardless OF the
rih rail- Of the turf, which. after ALL has no business
In important stakes and haldicaps.
a. am unable to my reason why the handicap
weights should be raised" h. sid YESTERDAY We
hear much talk OF high weights in England but 1t Is
all wrong. The average handicap weights in this
country are higher than those In England lon Will
find that this statement Is correct If you look care
fully into the matter Then what il to lie gained by
raising the weights In handicapl Why should we
make our jockeys carry ten, twenty and thirty pounds
| Of lead Most Of them arr nghtwcights. We get
good ut the present weights don't wei What
more do want!
"rll tell you what l should like to see, though,
that a raising Of the scale weights for two and
three year ods. The youngsters have under the
present scale great advantage ovc' the older horses
LOOK at His IIghncss Why, II he Is good this
year lie last he will beat every older horse
In America at weight for age mp to mile, ara
probably over. Taking mile a. the standard
think the weights should DO as follows: MAY ITO
| ai.ar
l16 and the of tho year lio. The present seal;
is: May 1906 June Io7, July 100 August ILL., scptom
Der III aud the rest Of the year 1l3. AS fof two
year dds | should say The scale at three quarter, Of
mile should be: May 80. juno 81, july "a, August
o. september and the rest OF the year Oo. The
present weights May 30, June Il. July a. August
So september 81 and the rest Of the year "a. Then
would make change In favor of the old horses or
the turf have come 10 the conclusion that they arc
not fairly treated When horse reaches seven years
old he begins backward. lie cannot compete with
the stout youngsters You might 10 well ask "A
veteran Of dxtyhve seventy 10 do the work Of
man OF thirty five tory. lie IS not equal T. tho
task Look at poor old Earnum. The lion horse, >
as he wns called Long after he had hi, best days
WEIGHTS kept png him iii lie became practically
crushed earth Kingston has undoubtedly seen m'
best days. and think l. entitled t. less weight
than when lie was In hi, prime. want 10 see the
scale for aged horses reduced after they pas their
sixth year.
did 1t ever occar to you" he continued, that the
severe campaigns Of tho horse, of to-ia, would have
been loOscd with amalcmcnt and horror sixteen
Of the seventeen years ago Those The days Of
fOur-nilc heats. and have had IL drrimWcd into
that The horse, then marycls III speed and
stamina. Why, lae any selling platter at Gut-
tcnburg that 90 "a mile ard haif and make LIN
beat all the fourullc Ncoris can name hundred
horses that walk away from Bo,ton II he
among them 10 day. Then consider the difference In
the systems Of racing then and II good horse
seven eight races In whole year back In the
seventies he supposed 10 be doing all he could
Add clkoorer. Of the champions ~ 1879 rcn bit
five FnewOr;h. Portiand's dam. four.
Grnstaa started eight times, Kius A!tjnzo sA. . !tpi
the record breaker Ave: Preaknc,s four Rutherford
seven. sprngbOk five Nagaboid seven. Tom Ochlltrec
nine. vOltigeur eight. Survivor. the toughest horse Of
the day started IN 1ftecn ard the wonder Of
the times. Compare these records with those Of last
year. taking the class Of horses. gold horse
today will many In Il single sca.on
one Of those old fellows wouh In IL lifetime. Take
Ecr for Instance Last year he ran twenty hye
races and each one Of them harder than
any run In 1873. Take Mr. GOrr,'s oily. Reckon.
She started ess than thirty seven times ami nl her
races vcrr hard ones. King Idle ran eighty races
Why, His iilghncss. twO-yoar old. TIE champion Of
the year. ran twelve times. st. FiOrinn. another two
wear old started twenty four tines. Longstrcct ran
eighteen faccs bermuda. ~ the bet colt, % the
year. ran tllrty-two. ind yet we hear that our
horses are nN as good II, they might be that the
thoroughbred j. dctcrolatlng. With 81. much ra"nl.
don't believe TINT either the distances or the weights
should be greatly increased. Those old foug mile
inces we're very easy contests. rhc hDrscs Vouli
cantcr about three miles and galop think he
hardc race In TIE world dash Of three qnnrtcr Of
Il mile, in which horse goes AZ a GREATNESS pace
from the fall OF the nnS I'LL the rni'h'