The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-12
RACING FUTURE
NOT TOO BRIGHT
Some New York Track Men Say
Everything Depends on
Court Decisions.
BOTH VlRGINIAS HAVE
GOOD MEETS COMING UP
Tom Sharkey Now a Breeder;
California Thinking More of
Its 1915 Fair Than Sport.
BY JAMES DooKERALL.
Q to The Tribune.


NEW YORK, March 11.-That some
of the big men in the turf world have
doubts about restoration of the old
order of things in racing is shown by
the recent utterances of Philip j.
Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn
Jockey club He says:
81 have no horses myself, and I do
not expect to buy any. Nor do ! know
what the officers Of the other race
tracks have done or propose to do about
racing for next season,
whether we race or not, it is for
the courts to say. We certainly cannot
do any good for ourselves or for the in
terests of the thoroughbred under the
operation of the laws the legislatures
of 1908 and 1910 saw fit TO put on the
statute books. We must, in the nature
of things, secure q favorable interpre.
tation of the constitutional points in
volved In those laws which we are con-
testing
"If the courts restore the quo ante
bellum, we will be all right, and having
think it likely that the New York
tracks will again commit the errors
which brought racing into disfavor
three years ago.
''The Brooklyn Jockey club, which
owns the Gravesend race track, has no
plans of it's own for 1911. We will do
whatever the other tracks decide to do.
We belong to the community of eastern
tracks, and will abide the will of the
majority, as we have always DONE
Governor Glasscock of West Virginia
has approved the 'fpoolroom bill
passed by the legislature. The bill for
state, but legalizes pool selling at the
tracks.
The passage of the bill, aside from
the projected new plant, has given n
boom to racing in West Virginia Fairs
throughout the state have threatened to
eliminate racing and make their fairs
strictly an agricultural show. However,
with the new law plans will be taken
up to continue racing, while Colonel
George Hool. secretary of the West
Virginia Fair association here, states
they will plan the greatest racing card
in the history of the fair, with in
creased purses.
Sharkey Owns a String.
Tom Sharkey is trotting horse en-
thusiast who has abandoned racing
temporarily, until some of the
youngsters of his own breeding are old
enough to be prepared for the big fu-
TURTLES in which he has kept them
eligible. Toms best hopefuls at his
stock farm are those out of the famous
race mare, Lilly Stranger. Sharkey has
now twenty head, including a few Sc
lect brood mares, the remainder babies,
all of which will be tried for their
speed ability as early as possible.
In his new stable at Plattsburg, n.
Y, James Farley, owner of that noted
trotter, Locust Jack, 2:0612, and the
handsome stallion. Prince G, e.11A
who was second TO Allen Winter in the
$4,000 Readville handicap, now has
sixteen horses. mostly trotters. ma
jority of which either have records or
have demonstrated their ability on half
mile tracks. Mr.. Farley bought sew
eral mares during the two Garden sales
for the sole purpose of mating them
to his very promising young Mckinney
stallion. Like many other New York
trotting horse fanciers, he is now
anxious to develop and race youngsters
of his own breeding.
Army to Encourage Breeders.
That officers Of the United States
army are in earnest in their efforts to
encourage the breeding of horses for
army purposes was shown at a meeting
of the board Of directors of the United
Hunts Racing association, held here,
when Perry Belmont informed the
members that he had received letters
from army officers stating that they
would participate in the military
steeplechase, the feature race of the
spring meeting, to be held June 8 to 10.
Belmont and the association of which
he is the head have been endeavoring
10 establish military races in this coun |
trv. with the purpose of improving the |
army mounts, Mr., Belmont inaugurated !
the military steeplechase, and annually |
this race is competed for by horses rid |
den by army officers.
Gossip About Norfolk Meet.
Mars Cassidy will do the starting at |
the Norfolk raeetrack during the spring |
meeting of the jamestown Jockey club |
a. Y. Dade was the first choice of the |
youthful texan who is promoting the
game al Norfolk. and his appointment |
as starter was duly approved by the
Jockey club.
But Dade, who is working the bar
rier at jacksonville, wants TO take
asked to he relieved, and Mr.. Levy
immediately appointed Mr..
Cassidy in his place. Besides August
Belmont. Richard T. Wilson, Jr., AL
bert Simons. William Garth, James
Rowe and other eastern horsemen who
have applied for stable room some time
back. and got IT. Mr.. Levy has received
Implications for stable room from W. ID, !,
Althouse. Cortland II. Smith, Frnnk II
son Of Montreal, George l.. Calvin of
Lecsburg, Va, and M. C.. Pritchard.
The management will make special
feature of s'eeplechasing next spring.
To that end the old course, to which
some objection was found Inst fall,
las beeD demolished and new one is
inder construction. The old jumps have
,een leveled with the ground, and the
,ew course will be regulation affair
n every particular.
Senator NJ F. Tarpey of California,