Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23
Chance for New York HOrsemen to
Get Part of Two Million
Dollars.
THE PROSPECTS ARE BRILLIANT
Big Increase 10 Purses and Stakes
offered by AssOciations--High
Class Horses Entered.

a dispatch from New York says; The
two million dollar year of the thorough
bred turf in the state OF New York Is
at hand. Last week the curtain for the
prologue of the greatest racing romance
in the world was llned at Aqueduct, the
home Of the Queens yunty Jockey club.
II is what the p<ic has wanted and
longed for since November last 1t Is
what the chief actors-the trainers and
horses, the breeders and owners, and
the racing associatiOns--have been pre-
pairing for.
OF certainty. the public was eager
again to see the royal thoroughbred,
and cheer those struggles that warm
the cookies Of every heart in which red
blood flows. A sport royal in its actors,
regal in its rewards. enthusiastic in its
cCntegts. magnificent in It's settings and
environment, racing appeals to the
American public In most especial man
ner,
There Is particular reasons, too why
this year OF racing in this state should
attract most largely. In the days ago
enthusiasts were content II but one or
two horses whose proves had won
them fame, continue their battles
against the younger giants. This sea.
son there are more horses Of larger
worth than ever before appealed for
favor. As If to confound the Worship.
ers Of ancient days and ancient meth.
eds, who have wept while the rest of
the world cheered over glorious battles
fought by the younger set. there are as
survivors of this highest test Of excel
lence horses today OF four and five years
At least the very peers Of those who flist
made fame for the American thorough
bred.
But the present and It's possibilities
are Of more concern than any futile
quarrel with a past that was splendid
In its generation, No man may stop
TO break a lance with a historian while
he may contemplate the struggle for Il
glorious supremacy between Water
bury the marvel Of year that WAS
exceptional In class McChcsney, the
sturdy wosterner, who has come to roll
back the star of empire In It's orbit.
and Hermls, the greatest little" horse
and the earnest and speedlest that
many a decade has showu--a trio that
would make any year stand out among
It's fellows,
Sufficient unto an all satisfying con-
cluslon would the struggles Of these
three be were none others TO challenge
their right, but we have 4-year-old
division singularly high class There
Is AfriCander, the hero of the Suburban
IN race that was fought out most
bitterly in going that would have tried
the heart of the stoutest 3-year-old that
ever was saddled Irish Lad, the winner
of the Brooklyn, after a sensational
struggle with one Of the gamest and
best mares seen since the days Of Imp;
Dick Weles greater In the west than
ever McChesney was, and a marvel in
speed, who did all things asked from
him In superlatively easy fashion,
these and others, whose performances
in many another year, would have been
sufficient to stamp them with excel
lence, all are in readiness to meet
worthy fQemen
And, OF the S-year-olds, there IL the
champion, Highbal, the sweet Futurl-
~ winner, Hamburg Belle; Leonidas,
always q factor where speed and stam-
ina figured; the sturdy Stalwart the
ever dangerous Orthodox, and dozen
more, any one Of which would be a
champion in an ordinary year.
This is but a cursory glance at some
of the distinguished ones who will make
holiday for the public, and the very
presence Of them insures not merely
some one great contest but many Of
them. Every horse mentioned has been
doing everything asked Of him, Only
two Of them-Waterboy and Afrlcander
went into winter quarters with
question behind them, and both Of
these 10y their gallops TO date, have an.
sWeIed that question In gratifying
manner.
These facts and the no less pleasant
one that every horse about the metro
politan circuit has Wintored In good
health afford good grounds for a splen-
did optimism Of the sport in the COM
ing year The turf has progressed
steadily under Is present management,
and since the state has put upon It the
seal Of rs official approval The new
life which came 10 ii In 1895 has been
enlarged and made more ylIIle by pub
lie appreciation, until today the sport,
In all It's departments h on a plane
higher than It IS elsewhere in the
world,