The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26
GLOOM HANGS
. OVER RAGING
Outlook for Turf Seems to Be
Less Bright Than Ever
Before.
MANY CANDIDATES FOR
MATR0N TR0TTING STAKE
Clean Sport in Canada Under
Operation of New and
Strict Law.
BY JAMES DocKERALE.

BY Leased Wire to Tho Tribune
NEW YORK June 25.-Thero has becI
no lifting of the gloomy clouds over turf.
dom in the cast. II anything. those clouds
have darkencd. The fact that test cases
against the anti-oral betting bills have
been decided adversely to the racing in
terests Is the last sad blow.
Racing is going on in a half-hcarted
manner. Indeed. it has now become
sport for kings and millionaires in dead
earnest. In order to meet expenses thu
prices have been raised until it requires
a fat purse to pay the bills Of seeing an
afternoons sport at the track. Unless
a. man Is wealthy lie despairs of seeing
racing these days.
The Trotting Horse Breeders club has
this rich event for 3-year-old trotters
may be decided at the August grand cir
cult meeting In New York The Matron
Is the first of the big futurities arranged
by the American Association OF Trotting
Horse Breeders. OF which Senator j. w.
Bailey is the president. and among the
S-year-olds eligible & to start are most Oh
One OF the eligibles is Lou Billings,
chestnut fily bred and owned by C. 4
G. billings. Her dam; Lou d, Dillon; ,n. s:ol'
while her sire. John A. McKerron, 2:o5b.
was the champion wagon trotter OF his
day,
York Central railroad has a promising
candidate In the bay colt Bergen. 2;?6t.
by Bingara. out OF Russula, by kremlin'
2:075. Robert Proctor, who brought out
Uhlan. 2:02i. is training him.
A II. Cosden, president OF the William
B. Riker company and one or the dlrec-
tors of the Trotting Horse Breeding club.
has another likely entry In the bay colt
Colonle Dewey.
Racing at Shcepsnead Bay will end
on July O. Being nearer fI TO tWs SeW f15S f5S
patronage there now Is somewhat I'M
proved This also is due TO the great
number OF out -of-town people in tho city
Turfnen are looking toward Saratoga
with a hope that official, vigilance might
be relaxed. IL there Is possible chanGe
there will bo betting in Saratoga this
summer.
Clean Racing in Canada
MANY of tho owners who raced al
Enneryyllle have decided to rest up their
horses until fall instead of taking I'm the
meetings that comprise the summer cir
cut. Dave Henry, who met with con-
siderable success during the last month
or two, will remain at the Oakland track
Joseph Tigue. James Nell and William
Ashe are among those who shipped 10
farm near Santa Rosa.
sydney Dickson. who formerly rode on
eastern tracks, IS training and riding
hofGs In British a. 5Hs SHlnea and took e Wa5 sSvan
ase OF rhe enforced vacation TO come TO
New York TO buy horses. At Georgetown
Dickson rode five winners and three sec
onds in a day. He reports that Saylor,
formerly a well-known selling platter Oh
the metropolitan tracks, is ono of the
most consistent performers III South
Several 2-yeaF- oldS were sold at auc-
ton In the Grayescnd paddock the other
day from the stable OF Harry Payne
whitney The sale was conducted by
George Balm. and fairly good prices were
secured all through the lists. Tho Of
rerings for tho most part were young
sters that had been thoroughly tried, aud
Il was wedding out of a stable that was
a bit cumbersome. In addition to the
whitney lot there was offerings from
tho Silver Brook farm, while Captain
e. c. Cassatt and ". l., Powers each
sent one to the market.
The Elm Ridge track at Kansas City
viii be converted into a one-nlile oval au-
-omobile speedway. which, II is said. Will
,qual anything OF It's kind in the coUn-
ry The course, which will be OF ma
erial similar TO that used in tho con-
of rho Los Angeles ''ple pan
rack will probably be completed withip
hirty days, Barney Oldfield is stock
holder in the enterprise, which is backed
by local capitalists.
Tipsters On the Canadian tracks are "a
hing OF the past. Under the Miller law
here are no more bookmakers. no tele-
sraph wires into tho track and no mors
outs. The general opinion is that rae
ng in the Dominion Is now upon good.
oid ton.