The sun., 1903-08-02
JAMAICA WANTS LONGER MEET
r.. ID. SULLIVAN FAVORS RACING
THERE NEXT AUGUST.
Says There Is Public Demand for tho
Sport While the Cracks Are N the
spa-Father Ein HDaly warned--Gossip
OF the Turf Heard at the Track.

1t is barely possible that there will be racing
at the Jamaica track next August during
the meeting at Saratoga. While the officials
or the Metropolitan Jockey Club have not
yet decided to ask tho stewards OF the Jockey
Club for dates. it would seem that the matter
has been under an informal discussion. The
fact that the public during tho past week
patronized the Jamaica track In a most liberal
manner. even though nearly all OF the best
racehorses were at Saratoga, created the
Impression in certain quarters that a meeting
OF three weeks next August would be boon
to those who never so to the Spa and also
TO the so-Called poor owners. who, because or
their inability to race at Saratoga. are conf
PEELED 10 keep their horses in idleness or 60
West. reporter OF The Sun yesterday asked
Timothy d. Sullivan. who Is one OF the larg-
est stockholders in the Jamaica track,
whether he favored a summer meeting next
year OF months duration. Mr.. Sullivan
replied:
Il think the public would patronize such a
meeting literally. Take this big crowd here
to-day. for instance. How many will 80 to
Saratoga? Not one in fifty. lf we had Il
meeting next August 1t would be u benefit
to poor owners and a boon to the New York
public Mt large. At tho same time it would
Is such demand for racing that the public
will support a meeting where class is lacking.
BY this do not mean to say that the Metro
politan Jockey Club will not make a bid for
high-claSs horses, for We intend to offer valu-
able stakes and cater to the very best ele-
ment But at the same time the public that
really supports the local tracks should be
accommodated, it seems to me, ii the demand
warrants it,"
The Metropolitan Jockey Club has spent
half million dollars in building its new track.
because OF the crush in dates. it has had to be
content with three separate meetings this
year. one in April. another during the week
Just ended and a final meeting that will wind
mp the local season next NOvem Der. The
Jamaica track is essentially a summer resort
and the promoters of it naturally feel that they
can secure a more profitable interest on their
investment. if they are. allowed to race CON
secutively for three or four weeks In the mid
die OF the season. I he Metropolitan Jockey
Club is made up Of some noted politicians. in
Guiding 7. p sullivan. I. P. sullivan, ?. II:
McCarren. w. II. Reynolds and others, and
il is almost a certainty that they will ask the
Jockey Club for revision OF dates for next
season. They are wrh satisfied with the
meeting Just closed the receipts coming up
to expectations.
Father Bill" DAILY has been warned by the
Jockey Club stewards that unless his horses
run more consistently in the future his entries
will be refused. DaIy has been severely criti-
Cised at different times for so called in and
out" running. and 1t was during the meeting
at Brighton Beach that the turf authorities
got their eyes on him. II IL probable that
hereafter he will use his own Jockeys. instead
of employing stars like Odom, Redfern, Burns
and Bulllnan on such occasions az he might
see Ut. With one OF these boys up on n horse
one day and an apprentice in the saddle upon
another OCCASION the inconsistent perform
! ances OF Days horses were glaring In the
extreme.
There were two instances yesterday in
which there should have been coupling in the
betting. In the first race Maurice krau 8
Neither One and Miss Julia Kraus's our
Nugget. both from the same stable and trained
by the same man, started. Neither One was
at 25 to / and Our Nugget at to /, IN spite
OF the fact that they ran in practically the
same interests. Again. in the second race.
W. l.. divers Lord Badge and Miss NJ. Oil
ver's Gaviola ran unconpled. though oliver
trains both of them.
II. r. Meyers Sailor Knot is the first two
year-old to 90 over II distance OF ground this
year. He ran In the handicap for all ages at a
mile and n sixteenth and WAS well up with
the pncemakers for three quarters of mile.
Petra II. was cut down in the first race by
Charles W. Meyer. otherwise she might have
been dam ,daaaInsseronslY near the winner She
"Pittsburg Phil" played Lord Turco. who
ran in his brothers name In the first race and
finished absolutely last.
Julia Junkin, who finished third in the first
event, was backed down from 50 to to 20 TO l.
She is owned by q. l.. Richards, who runs his
horses in the name Of the Boston Stable.