The St. Louis Republic., 1902-11-18
ST. LOUIS HAS LEAD
AS RACING Center.
Track Is Better Patronized in Pro
portion to Population Than
in Eastern Cities.
POOR FOLLOWING AT LAToNIA.
Talk of Turf Revival at Kansas
City, Where There Is
a Large Sportive
Contingency.

| what q really excellent town for horst
| racing st. Louis is has been proven 10y the
lack of success which has greeted the La
tonia meeting said c. ]. Brockmiller yes
! terday. Cincinnati is almost as large d
town as St. Louis. and half of its popula-
| ton is from the famed State of the thor
| ughbred-Kentucky. 1t is in the combined
| center of the thoroughbred and trotting
| horse districts, for Ohio and Indiana its
| tributary States. are fine trotting territory.
| 1t lies close to Lexington, Louisville, Terre
| Hante, Columbus and other horse-racing
| towns.
Yet, from what 1 gather after perusal
| of tho. Cincinnati Enquirer, the present
| twenty-day meeting at Latoaia is anything
| but successful. The people complain of the
| lack of class in horses, the book1nakers of
| the poor play and horsemen OF small purses,
and there is very generally ali-around d.s-
satisfaction.
! Some years ago Latonia boasted a stake
list that excelled that of any, track in the
| operation around Cincinnati. They raced
SIX months each year Now they cannot
race forty days. with meeting which does
not give any stake whatever and only 800
purses Cincinnati mas gone back, while St.
Louis has improved.
''St Louis, which by no means gave such
races $50 days each year and gives about
fifty stakes in that period, some of them
worth $1,000. St. Lou gives horsemen
SJDo.Uo in purses. whereas Cincinnati gives
about $4,000 in the course of the year.
HOMEBRED CONSTITUENCY.
They have got to take their hats @ 20
this town for a strictly homebred spI--.l.s
constituency. OF course, they give away
more money in Chicago and New York but
Chicago is three times as large as ST. Louis
and New York some eight times larger IN
n nar, ;t h..
noating or travelling population that does
most 10 keep racing gong in these cities.
Iravelers ira S a9 and y;si.ors. OF which Chicago
Louis, help the tracks in those cities a
great deal.
Travellers are rairoaded through ST.
Louis by the keen railroad system of Union
Station. l am sure it would be worth s250-
gyVo per annum to st. Louis tracks If Union
way of incoming and outgoing trains di /
not exist. When a traveller passes through
ST: Louis he is literally. shot through. He
comes into Union Station, jumps on his
tram and running over to the next track
makes his connection. In Cnicago or New
aork you get in at one station and If you
want TO go through you have got to drive
across town and get over the ferry Chances
are. too, that you get in in the morning and
canno1 Leave until night. or that you tind it
Then 1t is you so TO tine track. the theater
OF Wherever your taste leads you. same in
Chicago Not so in st. Louis. Here it is
step Off one train and get on the other.
Bring it right down to cases and for
pad,,is Do any one but people living within a
and you would find St. s LOUIS IS there ina rafk Wsh
the best of them. st. Louis tracks de-
pend absolutely on st. Louis people. OF
stakes Washington Park Counted % in. 4'but but
the purses and handicaps here are just as
iarfe !.fs "a as they hey; are ,. in .Wndyville:
ing: With the good horses. jockeys and
bettors from New York, Chicago and other
have; But as it is, we must play against
all the tracks in the country, and are. of
Sea.sn IN our quest for riders and
good many owners and Jockeys who are
worth having like to sneak up and get a
"But ST. Louis does pretty well With ,So
days Of racing, $4,000 given away every
year and a handsome profit for men who
take care Of the plants.
II see,"l says that excellently informed
turfman. George Ehrlich. whose experience
covers q period of twenty-five years and
keeDest kind. that Kansas City is to have
race track. 1t is grand little town, and,
Sn 81 its ,,a merits; a better sporting town than
Kansas City is inhabited by fine people
VINO love good sport and who have lots of
money. would not ask any better propo-
sition than a share of a ninety meeting
there with good track.
Ihere Is one thing however, which will
operate against track in Kansas CITY
Iit Inat Is the Kansas poolroom Jaw. The
s ssate OF Kansas licenses poolrooms. You
IN kansas ceme fS rght W to the State line
operate track with profit within 100 miles
OF them. So. until they make some ar
the State authorities. do not see any
eEance Tor a successful meeting in Kansas
City; + is fine city. however, and well
which contain excellent sportsmen. and a
protected meeting there would be hum
a, imer. M would do st. Louis a lot of good
horses" ~
To St. Louis persons who had six months
In which to become acquainted with the :!
merits Of the horses now running at Latonia
the performances of these horses and the re-
marks OF the Cincinnati critics on their
races are at times amusing.
Mabel Winn got tied up with Wanna
Moinen, and Rag Tag and Hargis the other
day: They beat her block. and gave her
bel was out in front and stopped. The Gin
cinnatt critics then said that she is not
game and never runs good race when any
hung her for a half. So did ClonmeIl So
did lcicle. She left them all behind her.
one day Brtgadier was running In 1:121k
at knloch. Mabel hung him the first half
easily and might have more than hung him
the last half had Beauchamp not deliberate
ly taken her off him.
Mabel winn will hang them all right
Some day they will tie a rope to her tail
and around Rag Tags neck and Mabel will
hang him proper. She will have his tongue
hitting his knees knees before they go a
half.
Kunja ties up with and beats The Mes
senger. They can take log chain. tie 1t to
The Messenger and the other end to Kunja
and Kunja viii be strangled to death in the |
first half mile.
By the way, The Messenger woke up and
to 1. she 2M to /. Two weeks ago. in St |
Louis. he would have been to 10, she 20 to |
1. had they met.
Bob Tucker has raised a huge fuss Mt
Latonia over Jockey Helgerson. Thomas B. |