The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14

II the great events that nave been run
re-etofore at Monmouth Park and the
%sv- York Jockey Club may not take
Lace. but there viii be plenty of good
icing at the Coney Island Jockey Club.
md the Saratoga and Brooklyn Jock ~
CrYbs. and the Brooklyn Handicap, the
suburban, Futurity, Realization and other
Me- stakes will be run as usual
The uninitiated probably are not aware
.sat races run in the vicinity of New
New York create just as much interest
Z, St. Louis, Chicago. Cincinnati and
cher cities, and that thousands of dollars
~. v-agered thousands of miles from the
tracks. I was surprised while in San
Frapcico in a pool-room in which hun
5yeds of men were betting TO listen to
description of a race then being run
a. Jerome Park by telegraph. First the
booxmaker shouted, They're off, then
tho position Of the horses was given
mill the home stretch was reached. and
then the winner was named. Later the
sscond and third horse and the time made
o,sra called off when those who had back
al the successful horse received their
money. and speculation began on the next
ace after the scratches and the Jockeys
we're received.
No matter where there is racing,
7hAtber at New Orleans, st. Louis, Mem
nbis. washington, or New York, turf
eneculators not only bet on the probable
u,in1ers at the place where the contests
are being run, but in every part of the
1-nited States, so that if racing was stop
nod at the racing associations in New
yorl, speculators on the turf in New York
state would bet upon the great events to
he RIM in the western and southern states.
II is generally conceded that in spite
of the law against betting there will be
ejaculation in New York just as there
always has been; but that will be be
togeen individuals and the tracks will de-
mend on gate money for revenue instead
Of on the money paid by bookmakers'
The admission fee will be fixed at, say
$50 and another fee of, say g. VIII De
charged for entrance to an enclosure
that may be called a betting ring or any
thing else, and there is a revenue Tor
the track that will cover the cost OF
operation The betting will be on the
English pland adapted to American CON
venience and the betting. Will De an me- nc
dent of the sport, instead OF the hrst anu
grsatest object of racing. Inc men WnO
are best known as bookmakers can ~ "a
ana The betting may DE done in the same
way as in England, "on the hoo, WIN
out money passing at the time Det Is
made The settling time can W llA - ~
s,,it the convenience of the persons inter-
ested 1t may be every day or Twice wen,
INT at any rate at shorter lnterNAl thdIl
In england, where the settling IS zone on
MoDdavs I have no doubt that the sys-
TEN will work satisfactorily mere, d, a
that racing conducted as nave outllneu
it will be even more popular than IL was ,sls
shall have a decent and clean turf anu
higher class sport than we nave hau IA
years There is no doubt that faelns WIN
still flourish in New ork on the chdhSe,
foy the first effect win be 10 reneNe the
turf of much that was obJectlonaDle anu
INJURIOUS. AS things were, theie was uo
certainty how long racing Woul1 lasI De
fore the legislature would be forced to
take action and perhaps frame laws thdt
would prevent it altogether Inc aoNdh-
tages of betting In the Englsh tashloh
IKE proeressive bookmakers argue, are
MANY one of the first being that betJlnS
then will be subordinated TO the sport, IN
stead of being the corner stone ana louI ii1
dation of racing, as in the past. II Will
also do away with the most harmful part
of betting on races, cheap CAMPING by
people who cannot afford it, and VIII re
duce to a minimum the temptations TO
gamble that made the strongest argument
Of the enemies of racing.
The principal national races OF the sea-
son are the Kentucky Derby, the Brook
American Derby. In the Kentucky DERBY
the best of the southern and western Two
year-old colts and tillies will contend Tor
the blue ribbon. 1t is the nrst pig race
run in the south, and ii is considered a
more important race than either the Ar
kansas, Memphis or Latonia Derby but
the principal of these three year old events
Is the American Derby, because the prize
is at least $50, 900, and nearly every promi-
nent race horse owner east, west, north
and south, enters one or more candidates
he yvb leading American
jockeys, Fred Taral +. H. Garrison, sam
Doggett, Fred Littlefield, John Lamley,
Lonnie Clayton and Charley Thorpe are
engaged to ride by ambitious owners.
Inc distance in the Kentucky Derby
which is the first great race, is one mile
ana half and it will be run at the Louis
vile Jockey Club spring meeting Since
1884 the winners have been Buchanan, Joe
Cotton, Ben Ali. Montrose, Macbeth H.,
spokane, Riley, Kingman, Azru, Lookout.
ana Chant. A large field Will start this
year, but it is not certain what promi-
hent horses will be in 1t, although Eu-
gene. Leigh, Edward Corrigan and Green
=. Norris believe they will capture Ken
tueky's great classic event.
The race of national interest which
zJV00 or 10000 spectators annually assem-
ole to witness is the Brooklyn handicap of
$4,000 for three-year-olds and upwards.
10 the winner $1,000, to the second horse
$1,000 and to the third horse $500. The
probable starters are Ramapo, who car
res top weight 127 pounds, belonging to
pldeon & DAILY, who won the Metropolitan
handicap last year with III pounds up,
beating Roche and the great Henry of
Navarro. Ramapo also won the 1894 Sub
urban with 1l6 pounds up, defeating Ban
RIet, who ran second and Sport, who ran
thlrd, in the fast time of two minutes, six
and fifth seconds.
Another great handicap and game race
Molse who is entered is DR.. knapp's Sir
Walter who carries 124 pounds. He was
the tavorite in the race last year and ran
tnlrd, being beaten by DR.. Rice and Henry
Of Navarro. Sir Walter is five years old.
re VIII be trained at the Brooklyn Jockey
tlub track. and he will be in the fight at
me hnish if he comes to the post in first
class condition.
The next big racehorse entered is DR..
ilIce, owned by Fred Foster of St. Louis,
NO He IS five years old and carries 122
POUNDS, ten pounds more than he carried
ldst year when he won a rich prize a
victory which l always looked upon as a
luke and as due more to the fact that
req Iaral, the jockey, who is ten pounds
d better jockey than any other who mounts
ne pig skin. with the exception of E. H.
garrison rode him. for DR.. Rice was
beaten time and time again after he had
won the Brooklyn handicap.
another candidate for hOnors is Rev
- santa Anita, who is years old and
Gniy carries us pounds. He won the Amer
Ian derby last year, running the one mile
anu half in two minutes and thirty-six
seconds, beating field OF frst-class
Iiee horses. In my opinion he should.
WIN the difference in weight, come near
oelng bracketed the winner of the race
OF 1895. IL a firgt-cIaRs iOckeV has fha