Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-11-19
OUTLOOK FOR
|. WINTER RAGING
The Eyes of Turfmen Are
Now Centered Upon the
South and Coast.
JACKSONVILLE LONG MEET

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 tho
same time there will be meetings in
Tampa, Fla, Savannah, Ga, and the
brand new racing plant at Juarez,
Mexico, which win be In full swing
about Dec. 1.
The sport continues to live In CALI
fornia, but the oral conditions of bet
ting win be in vogue there, due to last
years passage OF an anti-bettlng bill
similar to that of the Agnew- Hart law
In New York. Oral betting will be
new to the patrons OF the coast tracks,
but 1t is expected they will become
educated up to 1t 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 its 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 ef-
forts of pool rooms to book on bis
races, but 1t is understood some ar
rangement win 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-at-homes.
According to President Tom VIII
liams, the sixty day meeting in Oak
land, Cal, will be a successful one.
No purse win be less than $3.50. and,
II conditions warrant, there will be
overnight handlcaps of 81 900 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 drastic law against pool
selling or betting on races and In
many ways is similar to the Missouri
law, which makes 1t felony to engage
In bookmaking. The racing interests
In California made a strenuous effort
to defeat the bill, but were unsuccess-
full. 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 thriyed throughout
the winter months, and many big
stakes and handicaps, including the
Burns handicap, were 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 a past
master OF the art of arranging an eff
fective program, has rugged up sets
Of conditions calculated to suit the
horses Juarez win draw from the east
and the west and to get them to the
post. 1t is pity Mr.. Davis, who al
ways gets well balanced and nicely
matched fields at Yonkers, was not
asked to make the Belmont park book.
IL he had been the Westchester asso-
ciations meeting would be more at
tractive than 1t is.