El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
Plenty OF Racing Around New
York In Short Time, the Talk
TURF GOSSIP

Chicago, III, Sept 24-From mem
her of the Jockey Club, not given to
sschattering," the writer has it, there
will be plenty OF racing around New
York next year" From the same
source it is learned that a thorough
lrenovating of the solonatic body will
ibe instituted at an early date and a
business like program of procedure
mapped out for campaign, the thumb
marks OF which spell politics"
The discrimination of the sport in
New York some three months earlier
than schedule, or at the first sign OF
"a probable deficit, by the solons Of
racing, has precipitated a world Of
lcomment pro and con. The spot light
.anent all this was permanently turned
from Saratoga, where the season was
abruptly terminated, to Empire City,
where with the cessation of the run
ming sport, a trotting meeting, run
Srong lines palpably within the new
law, and backed by the publicly de-
'1ivered good wishes of governor
sHughes-to a successful elimination.
Is there any reason why a running
meeting along correlatively similar
lines should not have been given? II
there is reason it should be made
public. If there is not, surely some
thing else should be said.
racing two or three YEARS ago, the
reformers were scared back into their
holes by the dauntless advance of the
most prominent men in the empire
including the then king, since, alas,
deceased-au of whom insisted that
racing be let alone as q sport of the
people Where were the men of this
type in New York state when the
utterly absurd, utterly ignorant cru
was done to explain the situation to
the people? What was the cause of
the cringing COLLAPSED Possibly it is
best to drop this part of the subject
here. the fact remains-the love of
dividends outlasted the sport in the
hearts Of those wont to be pointed to
IS pillars of the turf
When the trouble of the early
nineties struck the running turf it
was the trotting men who served as
breakwater- 1t was trotting man
who framed the Percy-Gray bill, and
forced it into law, with its marmel-
Gus where no other penalty is pro-
vided," minimizing the charge felony
into nothingness. Notwithstanding
this wholesale evasion of the spirit
and intent Of the law, we have promi-
nent men galore who stood up and
took their dividends without a tremor.
dividends amounting to over 60 percent
per annum, with books hidden from
the Lexow committee, as though the
said books would have spread a pesti-
Hence through the ultra virtuous body.
The running men have stopped rae
ing because there is nothing in it,
and because they are afraid of being
arrested The trotting men have gone
right ahead, racing within the law,
and standing ready for the test case
dead certain that in such an honest
test case the conviction would be
merely nominal The fact that the
trotting men are able to fulfill the
first requisite of a test case i. e. to
go into court with clean hands," has
not a little TO do with their decision.
Such are the beridden surroundings
of the running racing in New York in
1910 If it is to be revived in 1911,
it seems almost certain that it will be
with new men and under new sur
roundings. 1t will be purged of dirty
alliances and 60 percent dividends.
The top heavy stakes promulgated
for the benefit of the greedy million
aire private stallion owner, will be
eliminated; the purses will be equaliz-
ed, and at last after long years, rae
Ing will be a sport and not a dirty