Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-21
Season of Race
Meetings in the
East Ends Soon
Announcement that August 81 Closes
Events Causes Fall Plans by
Horsemen.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9O-The announce
ment that racing in this state would come
to an end on August 81 ut Saratoga will
enable horsemen to lay plans for the fall
and winter earlier than ever before. Already
II appears that there will be continuous
racing outside of New York state, yet
within easy reach of the local tracks, where
hundreds of horses are stabbed. When Sara
toga winds up 1t is probable that Fort Erie,
across the border from Buffalo, will open
for six days MontreaPs Blue Bonnets
course will follow with seven days from
September 10 to II, after which. in addition
to other meetings in Canada, the new
Marlboro track in Maryland will open a
week later for a session of twenty days.
Pimlico is booked for fall meeting early
in October, in fact earlier than usual while
the Kentucky tracks at Louisville, Latonia
and Lexington will provide plenty of sport.
The curtailment of the eastern season
probably means that the winter meetings
win begin sooner than usual. Juares, Mex
leo, has planned a meeting Of 100 days, be-
ginning early in November, and Oakland
has sent out a notice to horsemen that
the sport will begin there on November IL,
to run probably until April 1. Jacksonville,
too, will have a long session. opening about
the middle of November and extending until
some time in March. jamestown, Va, is
expected to fill in the time between the
close of Pimlico and the opening Of the
winter campaigns, although the promoter
OF that enterprise has not made known his
plans. When the jamestown spring meet
ing closed a loss was recorded, but 1t was
said at the time that another meeting
would be held about November 10.
Although the New York tracks will be
closed after this month, 1t can be seen that
there'll be plenty of racing elsewhere on
which the country will thrive as usual As
p. ]. Dwyer put it the other day:
This anti-race track legislation has
helped poolrooms instead or suppressing
them. The tracks have lost hundreds OF
patrons because of the restrictions placed
upon betting While it has been impos-
sible to wager cash or record transactions
inside of the tracks persons have been
| able to bet their heads off In the rooms
1t stands to reason that a man prefers tc
save his price of admission to a racetracR
where 1t is hard to make a bet II he car
enter a room for nothing and wager al
much as he pleases. SURPRISING poolrooms
| is difficult matter, because of a lack Of
evidence, while racetracks have been made
/ u AOE the 6ulOICeAl0nl Oh tue Jaw
The New York tracks two years ago were
able to spend money in keeping back the
information from the rooms and thereby
reduced outside speculation to a minimum
but under present conditions betting ha:
become more widespread than ever before
even though the tracks in this state mus
close their getes. AS long as there is racing
anywhere the rooms can do business. AS fal
as can see the new laws about to go int
| effect will do more harm than good"
! 1t seems to be accepted as a fact tina
Sheepshead Bay. Gravesend and Brighton
Beach will never race again. The propert!
| owned by these associations is valuable FOL
real estate purposes and may be cut UP int
building lots in the near future If racing
is resumed next year, therefore, 1t is pre-
dicted that Aqueduct, Belmont Park, ia
maica, Empire City and Saratoga will
monopolize the time between April IS an,
November Is.