The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11
More Than 100000 to Be Dis
tributed Among Trotters
and PAGERS.
RICHEST STAKE WILL BE
CHAUTAUQUA HANDICAP
Almost 700 Meetings to Be Held
in Canada and U. S. This
Year.
BY JAMES pocKERALL.


By Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
will be distributed among trotters and
PAGERS In the harness racing season by
track associations in their feature events
alone. that is. in purses, stakes. handicaps
and futurties, which are valued at $4,000
or more each.
The richest purse Of the year will be
the s20.000 Chautauqua handicap. Then
purses. each worth $4,000. have been an
nounced and OF these only three are given
outside Of the grand circuit. among the
latter being the Plattsburg IN V han
dicap of that value.
There are seventeen purses each valued
at $4,000. OF which thirteen are given by
the grand circuit tracks. Columbus and
making szooa total Of 6r,rs Ss9Gqo
grand total OF big purses 10 s2l2,00O for
twenty nine feature races.
Harry K. Devereux. secretary of the
American Association of Trotting Horse
Breeders, announces officially the dates
and places when and where the two fu-
turity stakes-the Matron and Champion
Stallion-will be raced.
The Matron stake. which was. awarded
to the Empire City meeting last year, VIII
go to the Michigan state fair for It's sec
ond annual event and will be made a
The stake is now reported as worth near
ly S6500 but will surely reach $4,000 and
perhaps much more.
The Champion Stallion stake. worth
nearly Sl2 600 last year. will go TO the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders aSso-
citation meeting at Lexington. II will be
the second annual event for this rich
futurity. and as the original nominations.
as well as the eligible list, have been
larger than the first event. the stake will
be worth much more to the winners.
700 Harness Meetings,
The most complete list of harness rae
ing dates shows that nearly 700 meetings
will be held in the United States and Can
ada In 1911
The people generally. even those vitality
interested in harness racing and the
horse: have. not the least Idea that of the
SOS dates claimed 315 are for May. June.
July, August October and November,
while the remaining SS3 are crowded into
May and June were considered as good
racing months as any other yet only
three dates were claimed for May by Ca
madam tracks exclusively. while only
twenty eight are scheduled for June.
| These thirty-one meetings almost eyclu-
sively will be held either in Canada or
| States.
Under the present system OF training
trotters. even the month OF August ap-
pears to be too late for extensive racing.
for the total dates claimed for that month
is 144, 1t is also evident that the trainer
does not consider his charges ripe for
racing until September comes in--the
| ninth month of the year, otherwise there
would be more meetings In the first four
months than the $50 scheduled provided
track managers can be assured of at
least respectable entry lists.
| The real brush begins Labor day week
when eighty-eight meetings are sched-
uied In the remaining weeks OF Septem-
Der the trainer, who apparently has
| trained the owner instead OF the horse
since, the close OF the previous racing sea-
son, is In the game OF racing on real race
tracks, for total OF 223 meetings are
scheduled for that short period.
|
why there should be only seventy four
meetings In the entire month.
WIN track managers give trotting meet
ings In early and late months OF each
| season. may be asked. and the answer is
| they certainly will If horses are entered and
started. There is no reason why the
Iavorite sport as well in May. June. July
and October as in August and September
IN Eqropean countries, where harness
starts in the middle Of March and Is con-
tinued until early in November
Present System Hurts Crowds.
Under the present system OF racing the
! trotter and PAGER. track managers cannot
possibly expect filled grandstands. neither
can the tradesmen OF the cities and towns
expect big gathering OF visitors as long
| as the figures show that in the FIVE
months out of the seven there are a
try, or a. fraction over thirty-four meet
| ings each month. while in August and
| September there are a total of 527 or
| an average Of 963 meetings per month.
Just what disposition will be made OF
| the Castleton-bred yearlngs has not been
decided upon. An offer OF 100000 was
made TO James r. Keene for the entire
output of the farm, which numbers fifty
| seven. This offer is supposed to have
come from John e. Madden
- The Fort Erie. Montreal. Windsor and
Hamilton race tracks of the Canadian
| circuit Will operate this season with the
old style OF bookmaking, This decision
was arrived at with no prejudice to the
| use OF the machines next year.
| Word has been received that the
| American Jockeys. Miles, who Is riding
| for M. Eyedegi, and Willie Shaw, who
| wears the silks of Prince Hohenlohe. are
| more than holding their own abroad.
| Miles and Shaw have been riding In Eau
| rope for several seasons and from the
first made good. They are now riding
| In Austria.
| The stewards at the Montreal horse
| races have ordered away four jockeys
| from the track for general unsatisfactory
| riding and behavior. This was a clique
| that navisated all the poor looking races.
| Prodigal, 2:18. one OF the greatest trot-
| ting sires. dropped dead at Senator Jo-
seph w. Bailey's Fairland farm, aged 25.
This stallion was bred by j. c. McFerran.
and after passing to John 8, Clarke of
New Brunswick, N. J.. and Marcus DAILY,
became the property OF Senator Bailey
Prodiga] was one of the most noted speed
producers