Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-12-06
OUTLOOK FOR
WINTER RACING
Eyes Of Turfmen Now Conferred
on South and Coast.
JACKSONVILLE'S LONG MEET.

Horsemen Will Have a Hundred Days
of Sport-Tampa's New Track-Mexi-
CO Will Attract Good Horses-CaIi-
forna Racing.
Now that the thoroughbred horse rae
ing season In the east Is over turfmen.
trainers, jockeys and followers of the
game in general are turning their at
tention to the winter tracks scattered
in different parts Of the west and
south.
The winter months promise to fur
nish good sport for those who will be
on the various scenes and chances for
speculation in the pool rooms and hand
books for others throughout the coun-
try. In Jacksonville, Fla. there will
be hundred days Of the sport. begin
ming Thanksgiving day. About the
same time there will be meetings in
Tampa. Fla. Savannah. Ga. and the
brand new racing plant ut Juarez.
Mexico. which will be In full swing
about Dec. l.
The sport continues to live In Cali
fornia, but the oral conditions Of bet
ting will be in vogue there. due to last
years passage Of an anti-betting bill
similar to that Of the AgnewHart law
in New York. Oral betting will be
new to the patrons Of the coast tracks.
but it is expected they will become
educated up to it as readily as New
York did.
Many good strings Of horses are go
ing to the Mexico meeting. and quite a
number Of horses which have been
running on the eastern tracks will go
to Florida. The Jacksonville meeting
looks the best Of all. There will be no
doubt of it's success if General Man
ager Curly Brown can be made to see
the error of prohibiting the sending
out Of results from the track.
Just now Brown proposes not to de-
viate from his plan to block all eff
forts Of pool rooms to book on his
races. but it is understood some ar
rangement will be reached before the
meeting begins. so that the entries.
weights and distances will be sent out
in the regular way and prices quoted
in the pool rooms for the stay homes.
According to President Tom Will
Hams. the sixty day meeting in Oak
land. Cal, will be successful one.
No purse will be less than $3.50. and.
if conditions warrant. there will be
overnight handicaps of $1,000 or more.
No stake events have been offered. but
the Jockey club will be as liberal with
horsemen as possible.
After several Intellectual attempts to
stop racing through the medium Of
the legislature the Otis-Walker anti
racing bill was enacted last winter in
California and was signed by the gov
ernor. 1t is a drastic law against pool
selling or betting on races and in
many ways is similar to the Missouri
law. which makes it a felony to engage
in bookmaking. The racing interests
in California made a strenuous effort
to defeat the bill. but We're unsuccesS-
fW. Until the passage of this law
California. through tracks at Oakland
and Los Angeles. was to the horSemen
in winter what New York was in sum-
mer. The racing thrived throughout
the winter months. and many big
stakes and handicaps. including the
Burns handicap. We're decided.
This stake program Is only tentative.
1t will be enlarged from time to time
to meet the exigencies of the game in
Mexico. But it does very WELL Long
after winter racing was an established
institution at New Orleans the Cres-
cent City Jockey club offered less at
tractive programs.
The twelve stakes are literally en-
dowed. and Mr.. Davis, who is past
master of the art Of arranging an eff
fective program. has rugged up sets
Of conditions calculated to suit the
horses Juarez will draw from the east
and the west and to get them to the
post. 1t is pity Mr.. Davis. who al
ways gets we'll balanced and nicely
matched fields at Yonkers. was not
asked to make the Belmont park book
II he had been the Westchester asso-
cations meeting would be more at
tractive than it Is.
The best Of the stakes Mr.. Davis
advertises for Juarez is the Chihuahua
handicap. $1,000. one mile and fur
long. This race will be run on the
opening day. The other specials are
the Astien handicap. $1,000. six fur
longs; Hidalgo. $1,000. five furlongs:
Novedad handicap, $500. one mile
and a sixteenth; Dos Republicas
$1,000. six furlongs; Ano NuevO handi-
cap. $500. one mile; Montezuma.
$1,000, one mile; Juarez Derby, $500,
one mile and quarter; Mexican,
$1,000. four furlongs; Chapultepec.
$1,000. one mile and a furong; Ell
Paso handicap, $1,000. one mile. and
Primavera handicap. $1,000. six fur
longs.
No Hockey For Pittsburg.