The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
BY }. s. 4. MACDONALD.

SEW ORLEANS. la. January 2G.-A
prominent official of the Western Jockey
club states that that organization pur-
poses DOING away with the peuiiclous
''Bookmai,e n o~se Owner wItLln the
present year. This IS On enlightened Sep
Gu turf development for there IS nothing
SO out o. ilue iu connection with modern
racing Conditions as the spectacle ot
bookmaker laying odds against his own
horse in a race. II IS just as II he were
10 say 20 the crowd OF patrons on the
floor az ;le batting bo-rse ali about him.
essay. you rum dlms. / know just how
good or bad uy mare IS to-day and just
how much she Is trying. BoE me- that she
wins ard III take you" This Is an IN
fair edge" for the layer 70 hold on the
public race players. and as the funda-
mental principle u ideal racing is the OBJ
scr'.4rce % AN that is equitable between
tho bcttor and bookmakor. IL IS some
ching which cannot exist in the upward
march ~ progress.
Tho day viii come r. the near future
when no hookuaScr viii &c permitted %
race horses. This does not say tho book
makers who now own race horses and lly
against them or bet upon them are dis
honest. Far from g. The thing IS the
puDAci when Il loses cannot think other
wise. and OF course scandal tho DEATH
dealing microbo Of racing, breeds about
The "BOokmaker Horse Owner" IS not
confined % the Winter and the Western
turf for be fl0urshes in the East ia
luxuriant abundance In fact the spec
tacle Of q well-knOwn Eastern layer jump
ing of his high stool in the betting ring
al Saratoga to run out 20 the paddock iu
order 20 instruct the Jockey on his own
horse. upon which the general public
D.. % Of
OF the side lights OF the 1906 season at
the spa The sports used q laugh
about H. and then In a spirit Of gravity
they would aver the thing was not quite
proper.
Last week the Horse Owner Book
maker evil came into the hmcHght
through an incident az City Park The
crack nily Minnie Adams is owned
and campaigned by Fred Cook. one OF the
biggest boOkmakcrs now here on the
ground. Previous TO Tuesday. January
10Th. She had run several bad races, each
time tho Cook book taking IN gobs Of
money along with other layers in the
line against the fily winning. She ran
dog races, and on several successive oc-
casions the Cook book. and the layers
generally. profitted exceedingly at the cx-
peuse Of the bettOrs. Then on the above
date Minnie Adams went to The post IN
n handicap at q milo. Wen supported by
inside sources. She wax great horse
mere for she broke out Ia front under
Jockey 'Davo" Nicol and just rompcd i'm
'front.' az the way. Incidentally establish
Ing "a new track record for the distance
at l-5s As. There was no earthly war
rant for THIS sudden coming 20 life OF
Minnie Adams. and Of course the talk OF
tne owner having booked to tho race be-
came general The public lost bundles OF
money. After the finish many Of the dis
gruntled ones gathered about Cooks BOOK
ing stand whore they piled the book
maker owner with many significant ouer-
les. How'd you DO St. Fred?" How
many pills did she get tO-day?" etc. came
from the angered crowd in the manner
or SO many tnteT0gat0ry bombs The
Minnie Adams racc became the talk OF
the town. and although Owner Cook was
rs much at a loss TO explain the vagarv
Of his nlly as anybody else. stu the pre-
JUDGED gambler could not forget thai he
had booked on tn race with an tha no
money Getting possibilities such a thing
fforded.
This divorcement Of the horse our,or
and the boolmaker WIN be far-reacbine,
Cor almost at every meeting IN the MID,
Gle West and the outlying circuits the
chief b0okmakers and money factors in
the ring own the horses which race. In
the East, Lucien Appleby the book,
maker. races "a string Of horses. "a does
'Davy' Johnson. who frequently flons
from being player on the ground 70 a