The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-30
GOSSIP OF THE RACETUACK.
JOCKEY CLUB MAKES GOOD ITS
PROMISES no DIR. SLICER.
Po0lr 0Oms Put Out OF business and Big
Betting at the Tracks C%hcckcd-I liz
creased Vigilance as TO the Cleanliness
OF the Sport-The Card for To-day.

concerns have suspended business, while Inc
small fry have notified patrons that bets will
be taken on newspaper odds. or. in other
words, in accordance with the handbook sys-
tenn which IA not entirely satisfactory to the
average plaver. The Jockey Club has also
made a determined effort to clrtail the oper-
atoms Of the spertacular plunRers. All of
these operators have been requested" 10
keep their wagers down and nearly all are
CONVINCING imbued with the desire to protect
ire t,,rf as rnuch ne nossihle The influence
~ tba Ioclev rlub in tbia direction is show,
IN The fact thar .Iohn A Drake for instance
h hettine sloo m n race nowadavs. when a
war GOO il was nor an uncommon thing for
him m u,e a s2o onD an n singIs rare in which
ana of his own horses wsss starter .John W.
Gates ia also bettin , in n comparativelv small
vay. and the sane NAV he said Of Jesse Levi
sobn vho Iost all ~ so,o ooo Ialt yeor Among
re nrofossionai hookr ,kers and snecuIgtors
The sara nol,cv f. In evidence Men who
we're In the habit NJ hettinq e.. ZOO on a horse
n 0aar auo annear IN he satisfied with a vaher
nna-6fth 90 large A. Jamaica an SATURDAY.
vbila the hig onerators het heavily on Eose-
Nv tha Iaynrs ala , LAND ofBre business IN the
shona ~ sn,an wapars nv tbe nuhlc nj large.
a. n nav ba reaIi1sd that the .focLnv club has
raaiIv c,rtaiiad hettinp at tho track. at the
$500 tine tIIing snnrrIptirg in the nool-
.aan
Tl,rthorr,oro the 1ocla,. Cl,h had in
..it1tod , nova etrircont roIio, "a IN tho
sIa"nIEnoss ~ ,ha snn't i,.n,r tn. ,oclevs
sra nracticallv innrisonpd during IN, alter
noone an that nobody eycant thor EMPLOYERS
osn oonrorso lin tbor, Tlp iorLevs,
yalets ave heen compelled n wear uni
torrns and nun,hars wbiia tho fo1kays' man
srnrs have hoen nIqcad under strict sur
vei,lsnce Nbile the lookay club never
hsiievos in rho washing Of dirty rnnn and ia
sIvoys an rho eIor+ in the tray of sunnressinr
scanda, (, NAV he said thar the racing Of
eoiels tbis vear will everrise increased viri-
lance in attenntinp 10 run 10 earth PERSONS
Inclined 70 indulge in fraudulent ices.
Tba turf mowers have the plnkcrton dater-
tives N relv upon and in that way they are
ahIe "a keen In toucb With racing affairs both
~ the track and v from n. Ohiertionab BILE
persons will be warned away quietly and
without ceremony. This was made plain
when Bismark who was mixed up ia the
Franklin Syndicate and was later ruled of
the French tracks. vas notified last week
that he could not make book at Iamaicu.
xismsrk's case we'll Illustrated the indie
pendence of the racctrack managers. This
undesirable hookmsker il a roamher Of the
Nets. under whose auspices and alleged pro-
lection he expected to Inv pricesin thr Jamaica
rInr. If the Netropolitan Jockey Club had
been accepting So a day from each member
SS the Nets for special privileges. il would
have been impossible 70 restrain Blsmark,
for be would have been backed up 70 the
limit. by his organization. But with all
aaYenue from the bookmakers out of, and no
yecoenition of the Nets In any way being
accorded. Bismark had to get out.
Sno death Of the Cassidy Lansing bin at
Albany does not mean that the Jockey Clubs
present policy will become lax. On the con-
trary the Jockey Club intends to strengthen
it's defences in many ways in anticipation of
further legislative attacks upon the turf in
this State. As result of this vigorous policy.
racing ia 10 receive much benefit, while the
public will he mora amplv protected than
ever before. So far racing at the local tracks
has been practically free from any unpleasant
features. Form has been in pretty fair
running order and ND TO Saturday II is a fact
that the public had enioved much the better
OF the daily tlssle with the layers. The
presence of thousands at tho track each dav
should be taken Ia mean that there is firm
confidence in both the sport itself and the
men who govern it in the East
Rosebep's defeat in the Excelsior Handicap
was still the topic among turfme Yesterday
Having had time to digest the details Of the
raoe, many expert Judges declared that il
was the same old story-trving To make a dis.
lance horse out of a Splinter something that
has seldom been successful in the annals Of
b turf. Calmly viewing the situation yastar-
day, a leading traine or said
Just why those people came 10 the track
Saturday and blindly wagerod their all on
the big horse Ia a mystery to me. Why, Rose
ban never ran a mile and a sivt eenth before
In his life. II took his life to beat Southern
Cross in the Carter, and he beat nothing in the
Sterling takes, because both Rams Horn
and Phil Finch were ailinC then with the
trouble that has thrown both out of training.
Roseben, jus+ as Mr.. Drake said in The Z
last week, is the greatest weight carrying
sprinter in the world. But that lets him ont.
He cannot go a route with high class handicap
horses, and that will he shown conclusi valv
when he goes in the Metropolitan At a mile,
Any good horse that can go ont and race with
him will kill him of. Roschen IA a auitter
when he goes up against a real racehorse at
q mile or more"
The Roseben people, however, have no6
lost confidence in the big horse. They say
that he is not nearly 50 good as he was at
Belmont Park last fall when hn picked m
I41 pounds and smashed the worlds record
for six flrlongs in n hreezing gallon. If he
had shown anything like that gair and spee1
In the Excelsior, his mans gers say. he would
have run the others into the ground. As it
was. the running Of the first half in O:47 o-s.
with LIME ridinG a waiting race in front. ap-
cears TO be the reason for the defeat. couplad
with the additional fact that Rosehen did not
like the track. with its quick turns and short
stretches which are in striking contrast 10