The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
PAR|-MUTUELG
As LIFE SAVER
New York Turfmen Believe the
French System May Be Per-
mitted in New York.
IRON MASK is BEING
WINTERED AT SHEEPSHEAD
Fast TrOtters Are Taken Abroad
by Noted Vienna Horse
Owner.
BY JAMES DocKERALL.


NEW 4Odk, NOV, l2.-Meu inter
ested in the horses and the sport of
kings are beginning to discuss the pari-
mutuel system and some of them here
believe it possible to keep up old-time
racing at sheepshead Bay, the Brighton
and Gravesend tracks and the other
tracks near this city. Some day it
may prove to be life saver for the
sport.
Gottfried Walbaum. the former mas
ter of Guttenburg and Saratoga, and
the owner of many great racers--Lemp-
lighter among them--in his younger
days, has been playing from the ground
at Pimlico and Norfolk.
He has been successful at Pimlico,
and he would have made lot of money
if he had been able to bet the money
he wanted to put up. The Pimlico
players appeared to be afraid of him.
Bookmaking is a decadent busi:.
his experience at Pimlico. "When
made book in the good old days of
racing I always laid whatever 1 had
UP on my slate. These fellows take
to the woods when man they think
knows something offers them $50
note. With one or two exceptions ]
could chase the bunch to the woods
with 500 note. They complain that
they are losers, and | dare say they
are. but if so, the fault is theirs. They
are afraid to embrace opportunities that
come to them every day.
Mr.. Walbaum expressed delight when
he read that Toronto and possibly Fort
Erie would adopt the pari-mutuel sys-
tenn of betting next year.
"French mutuels will be the saliva
tion of the game in this country he
said ''The Kentuckians did not want
this system adopted at Latonia, Louis
have tried it, Blue Grass folk do not
want to 90 back to the old scheme:
believe that we will get them in New
York in time and they will become pop
ular'
Iron Mask at sheepshead.
Albert Simons took the string james
Rowe and he got together at Saratoga
in August for service on the Canadian
circuit, to Norfolk. but Iron Mask went
back TO Sheepshead Bay. This son of
Disguise aud Royal Rose. who won more
money last summer than any otheI
vounCeter, Mr. Rowe handled for James
X. Keene, will winter at the Coney
island Jockey clubs tracks with some
twenty yearlings from Castleton farm
Mr.. Rowe has. broken this fall.
Iron Mask has already dates IN va,
rious three-year-old races to be decided
next summer, and more engagement
will be made for him next winter. when
the Concy Island, BROOKLYN and Queens
County Jockey clubs and Westchestei
and Saratoga associations open thelI
remlar stakes for 1911, That these rae
inc concerns will in due time announce
their programmes for 1911 horsemen OF
the cast are confident.
Mr. Rowe, it has been reported, mas
engaged to train in Europe next year
for Herman B. Duryea, but he SAYS ne
does not know what plans for 1911 be
will make. he says probably that ne
will stay in this country and handIe
Mr.. Keene's horses again. ME-. ho"e
likes Sheepshead Bay as place for res
idence. and he prefers has racing on thls
side of the Atlantic.
Silas Veitch arrived at Belmont park
safely with the following five cross
country horses: Adventurer, lnnisKli'
len. Hvlda, Baron Dieskau and Bishop;
The latter is the chestnut 3-year-old
colt by Handspring, out Of Musette,
which raced under the silks OF iohn
f, Madden Although he ran d1saP'
pontingly, especially over heavy tracks,
be is a splendid type for racing through
with a good shoulder and lot of length
from the point of his hip to hook,
Baron Dieskau is 3-year'old of size
and substance. He possesses good NAT
bone and his rugged appearance md
Gates that he is the right sort for stee.
plechasing. Baron Dieskau is son OF
Rockton. Eupbrata. and ms horses bred
at General stephen c. Sanford s Hur-
ricana stud usually improve with age
and racing. Trainer Veltch is sangu1ne
be will develop into campaigner of
stern stuff
The horses shipped by Richard +. Car
man from Baltimore arrived at Belmont
Park. This division Of the stable Will
remain in the north during the winter
months. The following horses comprise
the shipment. Semprolus, Meridian
The Turk, Achieve, Sir Cleges and The
Follies.
Carman at Westchester.
Mr.. Csrman has arranged to ship the
fourteen horses now at Saratoga Springs
TO the course Of the Westchester Racing
association.
Trainer William Hogan is one of the
recent arrivals from Pimhco. In Ho'
gan's lot are Gid, Brenden, Lille Hoy
and Ontario Two cross.country horses
the property of Thomas Hitchcock, ar
rived from Baltimore and were sent di-
rect to the Hitchcock private track at
Westbury, l.. l.
Vito, one of the best 4-year-old trot.
tiers of the racing season just closed. has
been sold by a, H. Cosden to Isadore
Schlessinger of Vienna, Austria, for a
reported price of $500. shipped to his
new home with twenty-three other
horses bought by the well known Aus
trian horseman.
The sale of Mito was reported from
Washington but the deal fell through
and the understanding has been since
then that Mr.. COsden will keep him IN
the training stable of Tommy Murphy
at Poughkeepsie,, but, Mr.. ,schlessinger
made up his mind to buy the handsome
SON of Prodigal and Mary North by
Moke, and succeeded.
Mr. Cosden purchased Vito as two
year-oId from the consignment Of Sena-