Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-30
NEXT YEARS RACING DATES
ANNOUNCEMENT Is EXPECTED
NEXT THURSDAY.
The Yonkers Track Will Have Six
Days Unopposed-May Receive
More Time in the Fall.

NEW YORK, December 3O.-The Herald
says today: In several respects the en-
suing week will be fraught with i'm
portance to the racing world. On Thurs
day 1t is expected that the stewards of
the Jockey Club and the representatives
of the race courses will be ready to
make public the dates which will then be
agreed on for 1908. AS already published
in the Herald, the latest and most FEAST
BILE schedule, one on which all the in
terested parties may have agreed. pro-
vides for ten clear days In August for
Saratoga. then two weeks during which
both Saratoga and Yonkers will have
racing. Later clear week will be utilized
by the Yonkers track some time in the
latter part of Septic mber the first week
in October. This would eliminate the
usual October week at Brighton.
This schedule will not be altogether
relished by the Saratoga people. yet they
will be much bettes off than in 1907.
horsemen say, because of the clear ten
days. The Yonkers people will have a
clear week in which to reap the full
benefit of an unopposed six days. In this
respect Yonkers is much better off than
it was in 1907. Brighton will, If this
October. and will receive two days at
the end of July, which, in accordance
with precedent. will be fully as profitable
to the management as the six days in
October have been.
Three Tracks Well Provided For.
Thus If this schedule be adopted three
different racing associations will be no
worse of than in 1907. and two OF them
will actually be in better condition.
Surely" said a horseman yesterday,
when asked as to the fairness of the
schedule the Jockey Club stewards could
not have achieved a difficult task with
more satisfaction" The fact that this
provides for a divided meeting at Yonkers
was declared by horsemen to be no more
of hardship on that courses manage
ment than at present are the two meet
ings spring and fall, at .Aqueduct and
Jamaica.
The current week will be an important
one to horse owners in another respect
Thursday a long list of stakes will
close, and upon a judicious selection Of
stake entries at this time much will de-
pend. Indiscriminate use of entry blanks
can easily turn the account of an other
wise successful stable to the losing side
of the ledger. Not including the Futurity,
OF the. Brighton Produce stake Of 1910.
both of which will also close Thursday,
conservative estimate of the value of
the stakes to close January 2 next is
$400,OOO of which more than 80 per cent
is the Coney Island Jockey Clubs share.
1t Is fact, however, that all the race
courses on the metropolitan circuit have
increased the added money to their stakes.
and this. despite the fact that at the
time the clubs decided on this the financial
clouds were gathering.
Mild Winter Pleases Horsemen.
l: is four weeks since the Benning
meeting ended. On the last day hundreds
of racegoers declared that so far as the
weather was concerned the races could
have been extended there for an indefi-
mite period. Since then the almost con-
unuous mildness Of the winter has been
we lcomed by horsemen, for it has per-
mitted outdoor exercise every day. Yes
tcrday 1t would have required no great
stretch of the -imagination, when the mel
low soil of the Gravesend track was
seen, to expect to hear the bugle blow
and See fields of racers summoned to
the post. 1t is a common spectacle to
note valuable racers running out in the
paddock adjoining the stables, and there
is no excuse for indoor or shed work when
the tracks are in such fine order. All this
will tend to make next years racing all
the better, when Carter Handicap day
will have rolled around.