The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-02
NEWS OF THE.
RACING WORLD.
Men New to the Coast to
Send Strings.
hockey GLIB STAKE RACES
JOCKEY CLUB STAKE RACES
NEW ORLEANS TO BE A STRONG
RIVAL NEXT WINTER.
Items From Kangarooland-The To-
talizator System Of Wagering
Money in the Colonies.
49,. The Outlook Here.

New Orleans is making strong bid for
the patronage of the Eastern turfmen
during the coming winter. A dispatch
from the Crescent City is to the effect
that the jockey club there will hang up
$40, 900 more for the stakes than formerly.
Jimmy Mccormick, for three years past
the chief trainer for Burns & Waterhouse,
has clearly gone back on California COM.
pletefy, for in recent interview printed
in Chicago daily he declares himself In
favor of New Orleans as a winter rae
ing point. AS Mccormick has received
the best of treatment in the Golden State,
the sudden shift of the New York horse
man and his enthusiastic praise of the
Crescent City leads one to the belief that
either Mccormick had not the real adj
miration he professed for California or
else he has little gratitude in his soul.
Bob McI<ibbon, who is well-known here
as the official announcer of both jockey
clubs. and who acted as patrol judge at
the Chicago tracks for several weeks TINS
season, says there will be a larger num-
Der of horses coming to California to race
next. fail from the Eastern side of the
Rockies than have appeared any previous
season. He declares that all the turfmen
who have raced their gallopers here in
years agone will be on hand when the
bell rings at Oakland track November l,
the list of owners, notably Duke & Wish
ard, who have the crack riders Rein
f. Johnny and LeSter) under contract N.
Turner, one. of the best of the younger
will "A. Barrett. now plotting racers: at
the far East. Brown Dick" ed Brown
will send four. or five good ones out here
to race, and Eugene Leigh and Fat
Dunno, who were not active turfmen here:
last season, will be here this time with
about the best strings in the. country;
Tom Ryan will send out several that VIII!
earn their oats in any company, and
doubtless Louis Ezell. Dan Honig and
other turfmen enthusiastic over Californa
climate for racing purposes will influence
some of their friends to come out and
secure new lease of life.
The Pacific Coast Jockey Club stakes are
fore they We're made PUBLIC in San Fran
CISCO: strange to relate. OF those to be
run for in 1898 there are eight in. all, and
of the,eght three are of the sJ1 ant e
$500. OF the announced 1899 stakes three
are eighteen. and twelve are $1,000 affairs
California oaks (s20oN), California Derby
(s50OOy and Ingleside stakes $4,000 are the
only events worth mentioning. If the
Horsemen's Protective Association does
not make the Pacific Coast. Jockey Club
wipe the guaranteed value part of the
sendtionsa of tn the boo c aPa sqPstt W
$4,000 guaranteed value" stakes CD
are, to be sure! Not a blooming owner
on the list trains to the hour" for,
single one of them, and not as mucn In
terest is felt by the racegoing public IN
/ these travesties as in an October derby.
If instead of twenty-six stakes there were
seven or eight worth as much as the
twenty-six there would be some talk in
dulged in. as to the prospective winner
and some interest felt in the outcome If
there is an additional dollar brought in
at the gate the day these jokes are per-
petrated the managers VIII. be forced to
put on powerful pair or .spectacleS 10
be enabled to see It,
The Australian Jockey Club has notified
that at all registered race meetings with
in the metropolitan district Gao mites
radius the amount of added money shall
not be less than &400 per day, distributed
among not more than six races At all
such meetings there shall be on each day
at least one race on the fiat mot being a
selling race of not less than one mile and
a quarter to which the added money
shall not be less than 9lOo and there snail
be not more than one selling race each
day. to which the added money shall not
exceed ESQ. This alteration is causing the
proprietary clubs to Kick bit t,, While
think it a very proper move, says the
Sydney Referee.
The Australasian comes out strongly in
favor of the totalizator style of betting,
as against bookmaking, declaring that
'.the tote" has been. godsend to the turf
of South Australia Queensland, New
jockey clubs of those countries; to give
about three times as much in the shape
Of purses and stakes as formerly m ss t hae
piunging on certain events is done away
with and many men are saved from ffnan-
-cial ruin by the operation of the machine
on race days only. That is rather an
argument in favor of the totalzator than ian
fraudulent practices upon the: turf be-
tween owners and booktes are also made
things the past by the working Of the.
machine for a winner has to be-. picked.
and that is not always easy. In this
country the only places where paris
'muttIeIs are sold to any great extent are
Butte and Anaconda. Mont; The system
is pronounced "a great success there, these
support to "a. race meeting of about ten
weeks duration each;year. The average
revenue derived there from the sale of
paris mutuels and auction pools amounts
to about $4,000 per day. equal. to the money
received from twenty-two bookmakers:
The coming Latonia meeting is likely to
adopt the Butte. plan of betting. as 1t is
said the ..bookmakers are going broke
paying privilege. money. to associations.
There will in consequence, not be. enough
pencilers: there to transact the business of
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