The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26
Jockeys Richards and Wing
field Say Foreigners Like
the GallOpers.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
ENCOURAGES RACE TRACKS
LatOnia Track Will Be Sold; Big
Prize List for Sara
t0ga.
BY JAMES DOCKERALL.

by Leased wire TO The Tribune,
NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-After a long
term OF innocuous desuetude the race
track at Saratoga Springs Is going to
boom again next season. This Is the
best news l have heard in a long time
for when things are done at Saratoga
they are done on grand scale with plen-
t. Of fireworks and display According
TO the proposed schedule s225.0 900 Will
be given away during the prospective
twenty-day meeting at Saratoga Springs
, in 1910 in the way Of stakes and purses.
This amount of money viii be made up
from the fund subscribed last year by
breeders and horsemen. Stakes and
purses amounting TO $4,000 have Just
been hung up and the entries. so far as
are posted. show that some OF the best
talent OF America will be on hand. There
Will be more than 100 overnight purses
OF 5000 each. Already $4,000 in stakes
has been closed.
This looks as though racing were go
Ing up. This year the meet at the Springs
last year on account OF the silly betting
law. There is a good time coming. and
while we may never regain the old time
prestige fully. we are moving towards
II slowly and surely.
Bill Against Betting.
I never saw anything so contagious as
the wave of anti-betting sentiment. I
sore heads or n lot of misguided folks
who find II impossible 10 attend to their
own business, but the fact remains that
II has now spread to Canada. II. II.
Miller of South Grey introduced a bill
in the Canadian parliament a Ottawa
aimed AT race track betting. A few
OF the wiser ones declared that IL was
not a TT subject for legislation because
there had been no complaints OF existing
evil. Others who knew nothing OF race
track conditions proposed an invcstIga-
err
The bill does not aim against pool rooms
or the making of private bets. but strikes
6ookmaking. Touching upon this Glen
Campbell, another member OF the ottawa
parliament, turned 10 Mr.. Miller and
said;
What kind of logic do you use TO as
with boolsmakcr but not a crime to bet
with another individual who is not a
bookmaker?"
That was a sumner. Vice President
Osler OF the Ontario Jockey club and
the former President Parker OF the Ham
ilton Jockey club have come forward
new lawmakers Were tampering with
subject on which they were ignorant,
Pari-Mutual Failure.
Well 1 guess 1t Is now up to the La
tonia race track to go out OF business.
Latonia used to be great place. but
decision from the court OF appeals Of
the state OF kentucky Ilndlng DOOknak-
Ing illegal and prohibiting 1t In the state.
| The decision docs not mean that all
kinds OF betting on horse races is pro-
hibited. The state racing commission
ers did not like the plan OF boolsmaking
at LatoDia, so they brought suit and
won. Only the pari-mutual machines
may be used, and there are many who
declare that these are about on par
with no betting at all. The state rae
ing commission was created by the Ken
lucky legislature. so 1t is the supreme
''muk a -muk" down Kentucky way. Parl-
mutual betting has already proved fall
ure at Latonia. The next best thing is
no betting at all. l expect soon 10 hear