The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-17
COLT RAGING IS
GAINING FAVOR
Contests Always Bring Ont
Fresh and Improving
Performers.
FAST TRIALS PREDICTED
in COMING CAMPAIGN
Grand Circuit Meeting Next
Month at Empire City Track
Attracting Attention.
By JAMES pooKERA1r.l

By Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, July T6.-Reports re-
celved in the present week from the
training tracks in all parts Of the conn
try where trotters are being tuned up
for the coming campaign continue TO
team with fast trials by three-year-olds.
The number of colts and FLIES In pro-
portion to the number of aged horses
has increased by leaps and bounds In
the last few wears, and lately has
reached the point which suggests the
question as ia whether the trotting
ing period in the history of the breBd
when the racing of immature animals
will be the rule rather than the excep-
tion Mt important meetings in and out
of the Grand circuit. A. z. Cosden,
one Of the directors of the Trotting
Horse Breeders club. is of the opinion
thar colt racing will in a few years
hold as prominent a place on the frof
ting turf as it has of late years on
the running.
Considerations of economy as well as
sport are operating to bring shis about,
md the rise of the hoppled pneer In
harness racing shows whar force there
saving of money, even az the cost de-
basing harness racing and the breed
of harness horses. Colt races always
bring ont fresh, improving peri formers,
far more interesting to horsemen than
the average field of aged strotters or
PAGERS that, perhaps. are unable to
equal their records. When harness rae,
ing was in it's infancy trorters were
literally "mndc" by taking likely
horse and drilling him, year after yesry
until he had been taught to go fass
at what was in great measure an artI.
fetal gait. Most of the fast ones were
without any trotting inheritance worth
talking about, and many OF them were
II or Is years old before they had
reached the limit Of their speed by slow
stages of Improvement.
Turn to Trotting Field.
The condition Of racing just now Is
such that there is a doarth of NEWS
With the revival of interest In grand
circuit racing in .he East, turfmen have
forsaken much of the "dope," and
are turning to the trotting field. The
return of the grand circuit meeting 90
Empire City, New York. track next
month is engaging the attention of Light
harness horsemen. not only OF this sec
tion, but in the Middle West, the West
and the South as well. Considering
the lateness of the season and draw
backs which DELAYED the announcements
of the early closing stakes of the En-
plrc C1ty tIach, tue eHtiy uoC oo iet
received IS more than satisfactory. IN
fact, far Hhead of any other meeting
scheduled for the big racing line That
more entries will be received later Is
not doubted by the management, due to
the wisdom of allowing candidates to
come in at five different dates
Empire City Meet,
There is no instance in harness turf
history to prove that rs much interest
was ever taken by horsepen OF the
country in any other trotting meeting
at the Empire City track,
The addition of the Breeders Matron
stakes TO the programme w II acd mucn
to the coming meeting, while the guar
anteed stakes, as well rs late purses.
should attract the best horses, OF the
fered for competition. Senator Bailey
of Texas has donated a trophy Tor the
winner of the Matron stakes. while
Ackley c, Schuyler has announced his
intention of presenting cup for the
Speedway stakes
Picking Up Thoroughbreds,
NJ A. Silver, an American who for
years has been prominently 1denti1ie6
with racing in Argentine Republic and
Peru, is in the United States. Has mis-.
sion is to secure stock and equipment
for his stable in Argentine. Argentine
Republic is RAPIDLY becoming, the Ar
cadia for horsemen on this side of the
Atlantic saws Mr.. Silver. He picked
up few thoroughbreds on the East
ern tracks.
If the Jockey club denies its sanction
to the new race track at Marlboro, Md,
the promoters declare that they VIII
tracS MT Marlboro has been remade into
a ME track and application, has esen
made TO rhe Jockey club for license for
n meeting of not more than thirty days
nor less than twenty days duration.
The new track, CT rather the old HACK
the last two weeks of September and
tine first two weeks of October Joe
who was a Judge at Jackson;
vile last winter; Gene Elgod. who had
charge of the betting ring in Kentucky,
D. c.. arc the parties IN charge.
Turf Notes.
Col. C. e Hopper. presiding Judge at
the Emeryville (California) track says
that next winter's meeting there will
that of last season from the standpoint
of class and liberal array of stakes.
The racing outlook in Florida is not, \
so brirht rs ii might be. Racing sf (
and Tampa will, probably
always exist in some degree during the
winter months, owing to the great nvm-
ber of rich Northerners who spend the
cold months there. BookmakiDg IN \
Florida is doomed after next year,
Col Matt Winn, manager OF the Mex
can race course at Juarezs is soon go
ing 10 mako trip across the border. TO
zee how tho improvements are coming
along Mt the new course. All the ilewa
buildings, regarding and SO forth, willy
be completed so that the track may b9
,nrcwn open for 100 days on November
/, If the directors desire it. 1t will BE-
decided later, Just when the opening
shall bo made.
Jockey Knapp, the little Californian.
Who has been doing such good WORK for
August Belmont. may 60 to Germany t9I