New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-04
STATE RACING REPORT.
Commission Discusses Situation and
Results of Last Year.

Albany, May august Belmont E. D. Morgan
and John Sanford making up the State Racing
Commission, presented their annual report to the
legislature to-day. After discussing generally the
racing situation, the commission treats of the
suits Of last year, and says in part:
1t was, we believe one of satisfaction 10 the
general public and one of profit to the breeder
in 1893 the amonnt of none GTsfribnfed among
winning owners $27O5G7 in excess of that dis
ming owners, racing under the Jurisdiction Of tSe
Jockey Club, $26O0l99, Of which sum 81 1884 -
conducted in this State under the license Of this
uted in this state and whiis Statistics the acc1
racy of which may be depended are unavailable,
onehalf of the total sum raced for in this country
Nothlhg can Illustrate the continued ana SUD
co-operation of the racing associations in ali that
makes for lis bettermeut and for the encourage
ment Of breeding than review, first Of the growth
Of increase in the value OF the premiums.
necessary resultant Of this has been the con-
tinued prosperity OF the breeding industry. In
fact, it could scarcely be accounted an overstate-
in this Safe that the breeding industry owes not
merely its present prosperity but its actual eX-
In treating even thus briefly Of the advantages
t 0l tiT re al JHS P4 h stai Which
racing has been 20 the encouragement and improve
ment of agriculture in this State In the ten years
1904, there was paid into the State treasury by
issued by the commission, for apporuQnment by
the legislature among the agricultural SOCletleS,
81 10l 475 81. This came through the medium of the
tax of per cent the gross receipts OF asSocla-
lions assessed under the law and constituting a
special fund for the encouragement Of the excel
lent work done under the auspices and direction OF
these agricultural bodies. -... 20,
1t rose 327 go "A in 1895 to $50 COS 10 in 1885,
S64034 81 in 1897 to SS04SS 50 in 1885 TO S9l q In
1899 1913 671 % in 1900 70 Sl285Sl 80 in 1901 to SIo
OS5 IS in 1902 800 41 81 in 1858 and last year 1t
was Sl90,255 30.
After commenting on the allotment Of licenses
over which there has been much discussion this
winter in regard to the Empire City and Norris
Park tracks, it says:
It is class in racing that the law aims at. 1t is
fundamentally to improve the Thoroughbred anu
to encourage the industry OF breeding that the law
is designed. This be effected only through
racing but racing is the medium through which
the object the law is attained. and not its CHIEF
end and its regulation ever has been, therefore,
matter of great Importance. -
During the year application was received by
the commission from some persons proposing TO
form a corporation to be known the Richmond
County Jockey Club. for the purpose of conducting
race meeting and steepeChases meetings in the city
of New York The application was made in pur-
suance of the amendment passed in 1902 1t was
denied mainly for the reason that its
Incorporation could not be certified 10 as some
thing in the best interests OF racing.
During the year $50 head of thoroughbred year
lngs were sold in this State for total of $67590
averaging S6I7 Sc per head The figures quoted en-
brace every yearIng brought into the sales ring
and for which bid was made