The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-08
mo AMERICANS
FOR ENGLAND
British Turf Critic Insists That
Horsemen From This COun-
try Be Barred.
PROPOSES DUTY ON
FOREIGN RACING STOCK
Trotting Associations Are Ar
ranging for Reduction of
Free Passes to Tracks.
By JAMES DocKERALL


BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Jan. IL have repeat
edly called attention to the slurs and
attacks published in English sporting
sheets concerning American sports and
American sporting men. One Of these
publications recently printed an attack
on American horses and American
breeders. think it well to reproduce
the article in part. The writer says:
"The Anserous One,o writing II
more reasonable tone than he usually
adopts, suggests that there may be
danger of preliminary interference il
the stewards of the Jockey club act
on the practically unanimous wishes
of breeders of bloodstock in this coun-
| try, which will soon be submitted to
them in the now-well-known petition.
He says:
| "It is quite within the competence
of the-stewards to confine racing under
their rules to horses bred in the United
kingdom, and in this way they could
exclude American and all other foreign
bloodstock from racing in England, just
as the Buenos Ayres Jockey club has
ItCeHuly uOuG IOI pu0 argentine. L y
compare small things with great, this
is no greater exercise of power than
| the committee of a horse show may dis
| play In regard to whether the show
| shall be of an international, national,
or purely local character. No one sug
gests that the Americans should not
have free entry for their yearlings to
this country TO be sold for ordinary
purposes, but if they are intended for
racing under Jockey club rules their
owners must naturally conform to those
rules, as sine qua non.
Proposed Registration Rules.
"Inasmuch as foreign nations, other
than the United States, are not in the
habit Of sending yearlingss for sale in
England, they having, good markets of
making whatever be the amount of that
fee returnable to the would be ven
dor in respect of animals which
he failed to sell and for which he
did not claim registration. American
breeders could sell their horses here as
hunters, hacks, polo ponies, or for any
other purpose except racing-unless
rule.
cit may be asked, why not then
adopt the conservative attitude of other
nations and simply confine our racing
to horses bred in this country9 The
answer is that any such course would
be contrary to the whole spirit in which
our national sport has hitherto been
conducted. No one has the remotest
desire to prevent Americans from send
ing their horses to race here, as Mr..
keene, Mr.. Whitney, Mr.. Belmont, and
others do, and there might well be
proviso in the suggested new rule that
il should not apply to animals whose
owners have had them trained and
raced here, for it would be no part of
the desire Of the petitioners that such
horses should be mulcted on account of
sale later on-say in selling or in
draft.
In the event Of horse being regis
tered for racing in the ordinary course
under the rule as it now exists, there
should be no proviso that such registra
tion would be cancelled in the event of
the animal being sold without having
been in fact trained and raced in this
country on account Of the importing
owner, unless this omission were
proved by veterinary certificate to have
been due to serious accident. When
the subject comes up for discussion it
will be closely gone into, and if the
Jockey club empowers the stewards to
act in the sense Of the petition, the
ultimate drafting of the new rule will,
no doubt, be very carefully carried out
by the best available talent; but
venture to think that the only 9ues
tiou on which operations will be found
to differ. is the amount Of the proposed
registration fee, there being in my own
knowledge many different opinions as
TO this, ranging from f10 to fl00.''
Elsewhere in the sheet is a paragraph
TO the effect that American turfmen
were not desired in England.
Modest Request.
Apropos of the proposed move to cut
off free passes to racing and trotting
grounds:
Here is an authentic application
which r Grand Circuit secretary re.
celved in writing last season from q
driver who Ind made four entries in
being scheduled to start in the last
two days Of the meeting.
Six owners badges, rs two Of the
horses happened to be owned in part.
nership: Ave ladies' badges, as that
many owners had their wives with
them; two drivers badges, chief and
assistant and their wives; seven
application ended with the assurance
that the secretary surely would not re-
fuse to grant the aspirant little |
matter of three complimentaries.
II so happened that this driver had
agreed to pay only 500 as entrance
fee. to pay the balance OF 500 the
night before the race, but for some
reason or other none of his entries
started
Except the complime taries all the
passes asked were issued. and this
horsemau got at the end Of the week |
goods worth $3.50 for 800, with the
pleasure, of enjoying fve days racing
thrown in.
The free pass mattef on trotting
tracks has been carried to such ex-
frames fb1I eop,e wide auoLo fra,k |