Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
UTAH STAKES TO
CLOSE MAY 10
THREE BIG EVENTS ON BOOKS
OF NEW JOCKEY CLUB
GOOD CLASS OF HORSES WILL BE
LISTED IN FEATURES
Local Horsemen Are Leaving for Salt
Lake City and Other Points-5ook-
makers viii Use Boxes and
States at Meeting

Judge p. P. Pomeroy makes his de-
parture for Salt Lake City tomorrow:
Last night he announced the closing OF
the stakes of the Utah Jockey club on
May 10. The Decoration Day handicap,
the Juvenile stakes and the lndepend-
ence Day handicap are the fixed events
in the book of the club now in the
hands of horsemen. That every condl-
ton is tending to the making OF the
Salt Lake meeting a success is best
shown in the quality of the stake en-
tries. WHO ever thought year ago
that sprinters like Dominus Aroi and
Smiley Corbett would be racing in the
land of the Mormons? Yet they are
both entered in the Decoration handl-
cap of quarters of a mile. The
stakes have filed we'll and there now
can be little doubt of the success of the
Salt Lake venture.
From word received in the offices of
the Utah Jockey club in this city last
night it appears that General Manager
w. w Finn finds the popular clamor
for the old-time boxes and states
among the bookmakers to be so insist
ent that he will use the boxes instead
of the New York style of stools as en-
ployed by the New York bookmakers.
This is a move which Will please the
chalk artists. Leaving for Salt Lake
next week will be Ed Soule. Sam Ste
phens, M. Turner and Fred Morlock,
who will cut in at the first draw on
May %. Hughey Jones will remain at
his Pasadena home until May 20. Start
er Dick Dwyer is in San Francisco, but
will leave with his family for Salt Lake
next Saturday His assistants and his
starting gates went yesterday from
Santa Anita park. Chicago O'Brien
and AL Koeningsberg, two heavyweight
ground operators, will work at Salt
Lake.
Though the situation looked ominous
a month ago. the dark clouds are clear
ing. The Salt Lake meeting Is now an
assured success. Leading to 1t Will De
the small fry affair at Ogden. Fitting
into Salt Lake will come the Denver
meeting late in June. The meeting at
Butte, Mont, is sure to be worth Wnlie.
and all of these places will play right
over again in the autumn. There Is 1T
tie doubt now that a first-class winter
meeting of five months at Tia Juana,
Mexico, opposite San Diego, will be held
next winter and for many winters TO
come. A man with fair horse can
find racing all summer and again next
winter. An interesting bit of gossip
concerning the politics OF the California
turf is now abroad. President rom
Williams is furious over the disclosures
in the affidavit recently made by Turf
man Lou Calm, ruled off by Judge
Hamilton. He stated that under no
circumstances will the Pacific Jockey
club permit George Rose to enter a
California course in the years TO come
in case oakland or Santa Anita open
again. Cahn's affidavit was smothered
by the influence of Rose. who is con-
trolling stakeholder in the Santa Anita
property. Rose may have some trouble
if he attempts to book around New
York, so it is understood, as the result
of Cahn's sworn allegations. Wlillams
hi IN u IL
fornia would have been averted but for
the financial buccaneering of Rose, Doc
Gardner. Gull Holland and the rest of
the Santa Anita outfit.