The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-17

conditions the spectators will lstand
for more racing than at other points.
Another great difference is that, us n
rule, racing at Lexington Is concluded
Mt n reasonable hour, despite the fact
that the sport is conducted on the old
fashioned system. This IL because the
horses are called on time and there are
no unreasonable delays between the
events.
Unfortunately, this cannot be said
Of all the Grand Circuit meetings IL IN
to be regretted that at some of them
the racing officials are instructed by the
] management to delay calling the horses
to the post in order that certain con
tracts of privilege men may be lived
up to. AS a result the racing is often
unfinished at shutdown and the specta
tors get back To town at \ or later.
Some day maybe, even the privilege
men will wake up to the fact that the
play is greater then the time between
heats il that provided for by the rules.
Then the spectators get their money
quickly and play more Of IL. But the
short.sighted privilege men, rs a rule,
cannot understand this aud in the anx.
icty to make money, cut short their
revenue.
III racing or other points was conduct.
ed with the same regard for the rules
relating to the calling Of the horses
then there would not be such a demand
for shorter racing.
Out of a total of sevpty.three origin.
al entries in the three early closing
events offered by the Detroit Driving
Club for the blue ribbon meeting this
summer, the NJ. x NJ, the Chamber of
Commerce and the ell trot, only three
horses have been declared out to date.
In the NJ. Il NJ, Tom Murphy has three
entries and all of those except Twilight
Maiden has been dropped. The other
horse declared out is Billy ID, in the
stable of the Michigan trainer, Scott
McLane Of Coldwater.
This leaves a total Of twenty seven
still eligible to the trotting classic. Not
a single one of the twenty six original
entries were declared out of the Cham.
Der of Commerce stake, the only other
declaration being that Of Rosemary
Chames 2. IN in the ELL trot she
having been sold for export to Europe.
This is a remarkably small percentage
of declarations, as two payments have
already been made. and il appears tina,
the stake prospects must be showing
up better than ever in their early work.
All along the line the stake %entric.
have been heavy, and the reports from
the eastern end of the Grand Circuit
are that the meetings there are going
TO get the horses in spite of the fact
that there will be no speculation t.
speak OF. Horsemen are commencing
TO see that a good big piece of money
won IN "A stake il Just as good ~ il
they pulled il cut of the pool box, and
WHlt lH'N prefer meetings WN'It lneN
are allowed to speculate, they realize
that the field where the pools are sold
is becoming very limited, especially tn,
mile track field. That this true i prov
On by citing the entry list in the ten
81 900 stakes Of the Goshen, y. Y. half,
mile track meeting. This track is tn,
property of the Hartman estate and
was the particular pride Of the late rail
road magnate. There ism Z the slight
est chance of any sort of speculation al
this meeting, but each class is favored
with a list of anywhere from fifteen I,
thirty entries, and among them ar,
many horses which have been aud will
be campuigned in the select society Of
the Grand Circuit. And the same i,
true of many of the other tracks wher,
the official ban has been put on poo
selling and book-making in any form