Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
RACING DATES ARE FIXED
All Time Seems to Be Well Allotted
Among Different Associations.
RACES FROM SPRING TO FALL
westehester Has Decoration Nay and
Five Saturdays, which is a
Liberal Proportion for One
Track 60 Have.


NEW YORK, Jan. bone OF the very
serious problems before the Jockey club
is the alloting Of racing time to the va
rious associations during the season Of 1910
with Brighton Beach back in the field the
matter is complicated to some extent and
though the other associations have not,
with the exception Of the Saratoga asso-
citation, made their wants public, it is
known that they have been considering rae
ing time, and when the applications are
received It will take some close figuring to
satisfy all the demands.
BY a careful figuring Of the time and
value of meetings a schedule has been
framed as a possible arrangement that
would prove satisfactory. The dates show
no conflict Of time. the big days are well
distributed and the meetings are from
eighteen to thirty days In length.
Queens County Jockey club, April Is to
April 26; ten days.
Empire City Racing association, April q
Metropolitan Jockey club, May Q to May
Is; nine days.
westchester Racing association, May 10
to June z; seventeen days.
Brooklyn Jockey club, June 5 to June "a;
seventeen days.
Coney Island Jockey club. June 2S to
July 10; seventeen days.
Empire City Racing association, July Is
to July q; nine days.
Brighton Beach Racing association, July
Is to August 8; min days.
Saratoga Racing association, August s
TO August "a; eighteen days.
Coney Island Jockey club, August % to
September 3; ten days.
Brooklyn Jockey club, September 9 to
September 20; ten days.
Brighton Beach Racing association, Sep
tember "a to september 80; nine days.
Metropolitan Jockey club, October 10 10
October 81; fourteen days.
Westchester Racing association, October
j to October IA; thirteen days.
Queens County Jockey club. November
! to November 10; thirteen days.
An analysis OF this proposed schedule
will show hat the Queens County Jockey
club is awarded twenty-three days, with
four Saturdays. Empire City nineteen, with
three Saturdays, The Metropolitan Jockey
club is taken care of with twenty-three
days and four Saturdays. The Westchester
Racing association is provided with thirty
days, with Decoration day and five Satur-
days. This may seem a very liberal allot-
ment for this club, but the dates come
early and late in the season and not during
the most favorable racing season. The
Brooklyn Jockey club is provided with
twenty-seven days and there are five Sat
urdays in the allotment. The Coney Island
Jockey club has twenty-seven days and
they include the Fourth of July, four Satur-
days and Labor day. The Saratoga Racing
association some time ago made announce
ment that the entire month of August
would be requested, but that would be i'm
possible without a conflict and the arrange
ment of this racing time gives it eighteen
days, with three Saturdays.
1t is a known fact that Saturday and
the holidays are OF great value to racing
associations, and this distribution Of the
time is made with the idea Of treating each
association fairly. 1t is inevitable that such
dates would not please all Of the assocfa-
lions, but with so many in the field to be
provided for the date problems Is a serious
one for the Jockey club, and this arrange
ment is one that appears to be fair.