Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-14
GREAT RACING
SEASON TO END
METROPOLITAN SEASON ENDS
WITH ToMORRoW's FINISH AT
AQUEDUCT TRACK-HAS BEEN
MOST SUCCESSFUL KNOWN.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Then the |
bugler plays Aud Lang Syne" at ,
the finish of the last race at the |
Aqueduct track tomorrw, the cur
tain will be rung dow on what has |,
been, in many respects, the most sue
cessful season in the history of the /
American turf. With the metro |
politan season on the eve of it's
finish, there remains but two weeks /
more at the Bennings track at Wash
ingtOn before racing will close alto
gether in the east. Those who do
not follow the thoroughbreds to
the capital and later to New Or
leans and later to California must
forego their favorite sport until the
bugle calls the horses to the post
for the first race on April 1 3 next,
when new metropolitan season
will be inaugurated.
During the season now drawing to
an end there has been a derth of good
"a lterial among the older horses,
but many high-class three-year-olds
have provided excellent sport, while
the two-year-olds have been quite up
to the average, and Colin, the cham
pion of his age, far above it. The
performances of this unbeaten son of
Commander have alone made the sea-
son one long to be remembered in the
annals of the turf, while Peter Pan,
Charles Edward, Salvidere, Nealon,
and others have added luster to their
fame and helped to make the sea-
son a memorable one.
After the racing tomorrow Walter
Miller, the star jockey, will pack
his trunk and start for California,
having decided not to stop of for the
two weeks racing at Benr;ngs. Mil
Ter will go directly to the ranch of
his new employer, Thomas A. Will
ans, AMI will rnmain th''rG a month,
hunting and fishing Williams Is Of
the opinion that Americas premier
rider is track weary and that a
month of play will put him into con-
dition to do the work of his life in
California.
1t is now practically certain that
the Empire City track will figure in
the distribution of dates by the
Jockey Club for the season of 1908.
The success of the meeting held at
the Empire tracks this season was
too pronounced to be ignored by the
racing kings of the Metropolitan cir
cult, and those men who control
racing in the east would hesitate to
take any such arbitrary and unpop-
ular step as deliberately to boycott
Empire City and drive it into out
lawry.
The point where friction is like
ly to occur is over the dates which
Butler will be asked to accept. But
Ter would like nothing better thin to
race again during the meeting at
Saratoga, but if local opposition is
to be allowed to the up-to-date meet
ing, the seaside track will hardly
rest content with the division of date
that has been made in other years
Butler has already shown himself a
strong and determined fighter, and
he may be equally rebelious If he is
asked to take dates in the early
spring or late fall, leaving the rich
err summer dates to the other tracks
Reports have been in circulation
for some time of compromise thai
might be effected, under which the
meeting at Saratoga would be cut
down to ten days or SO, during which
the Empire track would operate
here in addition to an allotment o
spring or fall dates. The Saratoga
= association, it has been suggested
might migrate bag and baggage, and
leasing the Brighton Beach or on
the other Long Island tracks, real
a share of the richer returns that ar
drawn from racing within the met
? ropolitan district. By such an al
rangement as this the Saratoga aAso
citation would undoubtedly be fl
nancial gamer. With the lid on, tn
Spa is no longer popular with tn
sporting fraternity and race trac
I followers, and the days of Saratog
| as a racing center are APPARENT
| numbered BY the proposed al
| rangement Butler would get a slic
of the midsummer racing melol
and the rent paid to the Long islam
track would be inducement enoug
| to head OFF superheated oppositio
in that quarter. The whole situs