The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
RACING PROMISED
BY JOCKEY CLUBS
FOR NEXT SEASON
Officials of Leading Associations
Say They Will Stand by
Agreements.
GREAT STAKE EVENTS TO
BE RUN AS PLANNED
Sport May Be Carried on Under
Changed Conditions in New
York State.

NEW YORK, Feb. Sin all the pres :
ent uncertainty regarding the status
of racing for the coming season, and
pending legislation as the result of the +
recommendations of Governor Hughes \
concerning betting. representatives OF
the leading and most popular racing +
associations about New York city l
yesterday declared a~uthoritatively that I
racing would be conducted, and that
the great stake features already closed
would be run, and the prizes paid to
the winners. regardless of any loss that
changed conditions might entail on the
racing clubs.
The associations which have made
declaration to stand by their agree
ments made in stakes that already
have been closed are the Coney Island
Jockey Club, with obligations which
in the total amount of the estimated
values of stakes reach about $500, 900,
covering three years to come, and the
Brooklyn Jockey Club, with obligations
amounting in the total to nearly
$4,000 covering a period of two years.
Incidentally. the same guarantee for
stakes of the Queens County Jockey
Club was made as a sequence to the
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J. II. Bradford, one of the original
members and officers of the Coney
Island Jockey Club, the oldest racing
organization in the State. with a his
tory reaching back twenty-eight years
and the most prosperous turf organi-
zation in American racing, said:
"The Coney Island Jockey Club Is
prepared and decided to nee every obli-
cation it has made. We cannot know
what may be done i'll the matter of
changes in the law, but while we hope
for the best. I can speak for the Coaey
Island Club in saying that we will
have racing, and that our stakes will
be run as the club has agreed in clos
ing them. We may be compelled to suo-
init to a loss, but that remains to be
determined
Philip j. DWyer, president of the
Brooklyn Jockey Club since its or
ganization, twenty-five years ago. aii
for the last two years president Of tie
Queens County Jockey Club, said:
1--WE will race off our stakes whatever
happens. Racing may be under changed
conditions this season, but In any event
the Brooklyn Jockey Club will race OF
its stakes as closed, and the Queens
County Jockey Club will meet its dbl
cations in the stakes that have been
announced to close. We have decided
on this. and will run off the races that
already nave been provided for, oven
IL we have to run three stakes a dag.
The Brooklyn Jockey Club has been
prosperous for many years, an. that
club can afford to take the risks. as also
the Coney Island Jockey Club can, bit
the possible change i'm The law unqucS-
tionably means much to the racing
clubs of New York"
August Belmont, representing the
Wostchester Racing Association, oNnl-
ing the Belmont Park track, had MOTH
ing to say as to whether the West
chester Association would run pnd0r
the possible change in the racing law.
william Engemall, of the Brighton
Beach Racing Association, could not be
seen.