The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09
Dismal Prospects Are Blamed
for Great Horse 'Trekking''
to Europe.
HiLDRETH'S GREAT COLT
COMES BACK AFTER INJURY
Prince Hohenlohe's Jockey,
Shaw, Returns to Europe;
Davis 10 Ride in France.
BY JAMES DooKERAL1,.

| by Leased Wire TO The Tribune
NEW YORK. April s.-Tbe turf out
look here is not very encouraging Al
the present which accounts for the great
horse "trekking' to Europe.
The programme of stake events of the
Montreal Jockey club for the spring
meeting at Blue Bonnets, commencing
June 3, is the same as the card Of a
year ago. The events are the same
the distances unchanged, while there
has been no disturbance of the added
money IN the four fixtures,
AS regards the latter item, while
some OF the tracks have made small in.
creases, the Montreal people announce
as their intention of adopting the
poHcy OF liberal overnight purses. May
and with the prospects bright for a
large following of the Canadian circuit
IN the season, Il liberal subscription i,
looked forward to.
lhe Meadow Brook Steeplechase as
soelatlon will run its spring races Sat.
urday, May 8, at the Belmont Termi-
nal, instead of al the Meadow Brook
course. The change has been made be.
cause the polo committee is building
large stands at the Meadow Brook
course for the international matches.
The Belmont Terminal course may not
be as well adapted TO the races the
Meauow Brook ASSOCIATION proposes to
give, but II will answer.
Fitz Herbert Comes Back.
When Samuel G. Hildreth's great
colt, titz Herbert. for which the Mis-
souri, turfman declined $4,000, stepped
on stone at Saratoga last sumner and.
brulsing foot. became lame, many
turfmen feared he might not come back
again But Hildreth had no apprehen-
sion, and Fitz has justified his faith
by getting well. There is not the re-
hottest trace of lameness in the foot of
the big son of Ethelbert
fItz is the show horse at Sheeps
head Bay inclosure. Eleven hundred
pounds is big weight for horse one
keeps within five or six weeks of race.
but Fitz weighs all of it. Nor is it
likely that he will lose flesh, Hill
dreth s horses have a way of keeping
their flesh under the hardest campaign
ing. and going into winter quarters
looking better than they did in the
spring.
The liberality of the Syracuse card
is shown by comparison between the
tphhitiOuo MuICu VIII govern IUG 9IU,-
600 and $4,000 stakes of the state fair
next September and the same events
given last year Mt Kalamazoo. Grand
Rapids and Detroit
The Syracuse conditions, briefly stat
ed, are: Three per cent to enter,
per cent TO be deducted from 6rst three
horses in the summary, per cent from
the fourth horse and the fifth and sixth
horses given 2 and per cent of the
purse. respectively, if there be seven
or more starters.
When compared with the $4,000 Fur.
niture City stake of Grand Rapids, and
the $4,000 NJ. g. M. Of Detroit, the EN-
pire City stake will lose, respectively,
ing men.
The first named stake had an even
dozen starters last year, which paid
total in entrance fees and deductions
from the four winners, $4,000, while un
der its conditions the total income for
the Empire State stake. with the same
number Of starters, will be 5000, as
follows: Entrance fee, $4,000; deduc-
tions from three starters, S2l00; from
fourth, $500; total $4,000. less $500 to
fifth and sixth horses.
There were ten starters in the M. &
NJ. at Detroit, paving $4,000 entrance
ices ana SSuND UCuuCllDHo, hVihi ~
$1,000 against The net income Of $4,000
for the Syracuse stake with the same
number Of starters.
Horsemen Save S115o.
Horsemen entering and racing for the
5000 pacing stake at Syracuse would,
under the conditions, save total sum
of Sll50. if there were as many start
ers in the race ms in the Detroit Cham
ber of Commerce last year.
The thirteen starters in the DeGoit 8
feature pacing event paid in entrance
fees total of 1880.
Willie Shaw, jockey for Prince llo-
hcnIohe in Austria, has returned to Eu,
rome. The Hoheulohe establishment
numbers forty-two horses, many OF
which are winners of important stake
events. Budapest is the winter quar-
ters of Prince HoheDIobc's string
Stanley Davis. the clever young
American Jockey. will ride IN France
for Theodore W. Myers and D.: M,
Cohen, both of whom are Americans
The MYERS. Cohen stable is directed by
Tod sloan. II Consists Of thirty-hve
horses in Frame and Belgium: DAVIS
ia to receive 4 retainer OF $4,000, and
70 gct sti,tilaied fee for every win
ming mourI which may increase his
Davis as a gentlemany lad who
.boujd make good on the other side.
With IN in the way Of alertness at the
b.rr;et necessary TO Jockeys success,
he corjbines q cool head and good no