Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-13
RAGING A-PLENTY
ON WINTER LIST
Tracks Outside New York State
Will Offer Entertainment
to Turtles
WINTER SCHEDULE PLEASES
Los Angeles May See Resumption
of Sport of Kings This
Year
WINTER SCHEDULE PLEASES

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The an
nouncement that racing in this state
would come to an end August 81 at
Saratoga will enable horsemen to lay
plans for the fall and winter earlier
than ever before. Already it appears
that there will be continuous racing
outside of New York state, yet within
easy reach of the local tracks, where
hundreds of horses are stabbed When
Saratoga winds up it is probable that
Fort Erie, across the border from Buff
falo, will open for six days Mon
treats Blue Bonnets course will follow
with seven days from September 10 to
September IL, after which in addition
to other meetings in Canada, the new
Marlboro track in Maryland will open
a week later for a session of twenty
days. Pimlico is booked for a fall
meeting early in October-in fact,
earlier than usual-while the Kentucky
tracks at Louisville, Latonia and Lex
ington will provide plenty of sport.
The curtailment of the eastern season
probably means that the winter meet
ings will begin sooner than usual.
Juarez, Mexico, has planned a meet
ing of 100 days beginning early in No
vember, and Oakland has sent out a
notice to horsemen that the sport will
begin there on November IL, to run
probably until April /. Jacksonville,
too, will have a long season, opening
about the middle of November and eX-
tending until some time in March.
Jamestown, Va, is expected to fill in
the time betv zen the close of Pimltco
and the opening of the winter cam
paigns, although the promoter of that
enterprise has not made known his
plans When the jamestown spring
meeting closed a loss was recorded,
but 1t was said at the time that an
other meeting would be held about No
vember To- Los Angeles may also be
on the racing map again.
., RACING IN PLENTY
Although the New York tracks will
be closed after this month, it can be
seen there'll be plenty of racing else
where, which the country will thrive
as usual. AS P. j. Dwyer put 1t the
other day:
This anti-race track legislation has
helped the poolrooms instead of sup
pressing them. The tracks have lost
hundreds of patrons because of the
restrictions placed on betting. While
II has been impossible to wager cash
or record transactions inside of the
tracks, persons have been able to bet
their heads off in the rooms. 1t stands
his price of admission to a race track
where it is hard to make bet if he
can enter a room for nothing and
wager as much as he pleases. Sup
pressing poolrooms is difficult mat
ter, because of a lack of evidence,
while race tracks have been made a
mark for the enforcement of the law.
The New York tracks two years ago
were able to spend money in keeping
back the information from the rooms
and thereby reduced outside specula-
tion to a minimum, but under pres
ent conditions betting has become
more widespread than ever before,
even though the tracks in this state
must close their gates. AS long as
there is racing anywhere the rooms
can do business. AS far as | can see
the new laws about to go into effect
will do more harm than good"
It seems to be accepted as a fact
that SheepsIead Bay, Gravesend and
Brighton Beach will never race again.
The property owned by these associa-
tions is valuable for real estate pur-
poses and may be cut up into building
/ IS in the near future. If racing is
resumed next year. therefore, it is
predicted that Aqueduct, Belmont
Park, Jamaica, Empire City and Sar-
atoga will monopolize the time between
April Is and November Is.