The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
Purses and Stake Values Will
Run Over Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
MANY WELL KNOWN MEN
ENTER HARNESS RACING
Thomas Williams Refuses to
Give Up Emeryyille Track
for Big Fight.
BY JAMES DoCKERALL.

BY Leased Wire to Tho Tribune
NEW YORK, May 2S.-While the
racing outlook in the east is still far
from rosy and with the Canadian meet
ings limited to seven days each, the
promoters Of the new race track at
Juarez, Mexico, are losing no time in
preparation for the opening Of the
season there next fall. it is quite evi-
dent that tho turfpen Interested IN
,Juarez hope TO make il the racing
mecca of North America, and, if the
eastern turf continues its decline, 1T IS
likely that racing after next year may
he carried on at Juarez all the year
round with no intermission for sum-
mer
The directors of the Jnarez Jockey
club are James Butler, Alberto Tcraz-
zas and Price Mckinney. and Matt
Winn is the manager, Their action,
while in Louisville, Of announcing
100000 in stakes for the next meet
ing makes it evident that they Will do
everything in their power to allure
turfmen into Mexico. The i'll success
of the meetings at Jacksonville and
Tampa last winter left many horse
men In the mind to give up racing
rather than undergo another Florida
meeting, Having this in view, the
Juarez promoters sought to strike at
the psychological moment
Racing at Juarez Will open on
Thanksgiving day for 100 days. When
Mr.. Terazzas was in New York he said
that everything possible would be done
TO make turfmen comfortable while
racing there. A new hotel will be built
this summer and n club house, with a
number of cottages. Six hundred ad-
ditional stalls will be erected at the
track But tho best lure of all is the
fact that open betting is allowed and
as many bookmakers ms want may
crowd into the betting ring, offering
to give.
almost rs much on this side OF the
Atlantic as the other, will be nun at
EPSON Downs; England, on Wednes-
day. There will be a great many
Americans present, and Danny Maher,
an American jockey, will ride. Neil
berry. There has been much comment
on the size of Maher's $25 900 fee. The
reason for the size Of the fee lies ID
4hG undisputed fact that Maher is the
only Jockey in England who seems to
be able to make the ngly-tempered colt
run. Not only is Neil Cow a noto-
riously bad actor at the starting gate.
won't try his best except on rare oc-
casions.
He can run fast and far when he is
in the humor, and those who saw him
bolt the course at Newmarket last fall
in nm important stake, losing as much
as hundred yards before Maber could
get him going, will never forget the
Splendid brush of speed he showed on
that occasion when he got up in the
final stride and won by Il short head.
Harness Horse Interest.
More interest is being taken in har
ness racing this year than for a long
time before. The entries for the Grand
Circuit trotting events are bigger and
better than usual, and everywhere this
branch of horse racing is looking up,
The track at North Randall, Ohio,
where a Grand Circuit meeting viii be
held under the auspices of the Forest
seuts very busy scene, and attracts
many members of the former driving
club of historic old Glenville course TO
it's ground No very fast miles have
been negotiated to date, due to the
cool weather that has prevailed so far.
However. the sharpening up process to
got the horses ready for their coming
amateur events that VIII take place
at several of the meetings will progress
very rapidly from this date on.
The horses in general at tho track arc
in fine condition. Those that have been
trained in the south, of course, hnve
been given faster work than the ones
here.
In this connection it, might be point
ed out that the ranks of the owners Of
trotting horses are filing up with well
known men of wealth, Many of these
who are backing the ewly-organi2ed
New York Trotting Horse Breeders
club are men prominent in the east
and west Among them are w. G.
Brown, president of the New York Cen.
tra railroad; General Brayton Ives,
president of the Metropolitan Trust
company; w, l.. D. Stokes, proprietor
of the famous Patchen Wilkes farm,
w. r. Dickerman. owner of Ulllandale
farm; j.. T, Bedford a Standard Oil
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