The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-23
ON MANY TRACKS.
This Will Be a Great
Year For the Trot-
ting Horse.
pI ArEC AMI AkTEC
PLACES AND DATE s.
Worcester steeds VIII Be
Found In the Old
Promenades.

All early indications point to one OF
the most successful seasons of harness
racing ever known in the east. Admiral
Dewey may be having his troubles with
the deluded Iberty-or death blacks of
the Philippines, Cuban ingrates may
cause no end of trouble for American
benefactors in the streets of Havana
and Tammany chieftains and big ane
little bosses may be knee-deep il
Mazet trouble-but hcrsemen are mer-
rily moving along in preparation for a
record breaking season on the track.
The question when and where to starr
] is the all-important one for the trainer
or owner with one or a dozen prospec-
tive money winners and the selection Of
the spot and time to cut the watermelon
is the great problem of the season fol-
the man who is in the game for profit.
The racing of even the best of them
is a problem that requires no end OF
study and upon the proper solution Of
the riddle of where the start and the
general plan of the seasons campaign
rests oftentimes the money end of the
argument
The element of luck in running
against large and strong fields is a
potent factor in the success of a season
on the race track The New York ex-
perience of John Kervick last summer
is a forceful example of this.
With a strong proposition in the
shape of fast string, he decided to
debate for share of the big purses
hung up at Albany for the July meet
ing and shipped his horses, only to
find a field of from 30 to 40 good ones in
each race. Everybody had followed the
line of reasoning that appeared sound
to the Worcester man and had made
a dash for Albany lin the expectation
of running against small entry lists.
When the time for the August meet
ing came along, Kervick argued to him
self that Albany should be blacklisted
and he sought another field for entry
1t appeared that every other horseman
that had been through the July expert
ence at the Capital city track gave
Albany wide berth in August. The
result was an exceptionally small en-
try list of slow goers and the crowd
was to be found at Saugus and Dover
in hard races, the same week
Although luck enters into the prob
lem Of where to name the campaigner
to start, the question of where and
when to start is largely one of judg-
ment, and the riddle is up to horse
men about now for solution The ar
ray of dates claimed by eastern tracks
of the American association is bewil-
dering, and the question is not whether
or not place can be found for a given
week, but it becomes one of selection
in some cases among three or -four
meetings.
The merry go round of places and
dates enters on whirl of activity June
80, with a one days meet at Newton
and closes the last of October at Meri-
den Conn, with a three days meet.
The Eastern Mile TRACK Association
@ewly formed and composed of Sau-
Sds, Dover, Rigby and Readville, has
arranged a schedule which includes
two race meets at each Of the tracks,
leading off with Saugus and closing
on the famous billiard ban track at
Portland Me.
Besides this, the Connecticut and
Massachusetts circuit, which embraces
the half-mile rings at Holyoke, and
Meriden, Waterbury and Bridgeport
Conn, and the mile track at Hartford
has supplanted the old Connecticut
and Western Association with an at
tractive program of races in one con-
tinuous round every week from the
middle of June until the last tap of
the bell at Meriden, the last week in
October.
Following is a compSste table of
places and dates claimed by New Eng
land tracks of the American Associa-
ton, and from this list will be made