Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-06
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At Odds With Jockey Club and
Hasn't Asked for License.
SEEKS CANADIAN ALLIANCE
Racing Governors Are Ready to
Apply Outlaw
Rule.
SEEKS CANADIAN ALLIANCE

NEW YORK, April 6.-Hostlities be-
tween the Pimlico race track promoters
in Maryland, and the Jockey Club stew.
ards are imminent. The Pimlico track
operated by the Maryland Jockey Club
which. in turn is governed by the nen
racing commission of Baltimore county
has not asked for a license from the New
York turf governors, and as a result rela-
tons are strained. The fact that Curley
Browns Laurel track asked for and re-
ceived license from the Jockey Clui
Wednesday has disclosed the attitude OF
Pimlico, with the result the horsemen are
wondering what will happen.
This much is certain: If Pimilco does
not apply for a license or the approval
Of the Jockey Club. under which it has
raced successfully for many years, own.
ers. trainers, jockeys and horses taking
part in the coming spring meeting viii
be placed on the ineligible list. The
Jockey Club. although the New York
tracks are closed, still desires TO exercise
control of racing in the east, and in view
of the willingness of the Charleston
jamestown and Laurel promoters to ask
for sanctions the turf governors firmly
believe Pimlico should follow suit The
Pimlfco people, on the other hand, do not
view of the fact that new racing laws
have just been passed by the Maryland
legislature they are enXious to manage
their own affairs.
The surprising part of the tangle is
Curley Browns readiness to bow to the
Jockey Club. Brown has been opera tins
various tracks in other states without
recognizing the governing turf body here
but his sudden shift is said TO be due to
a feeling of enmity toward Pimlico Will
jamestown operating under the Jockey
Clubs sanction, it is believed that a larg.
ajority of the horsemen who will race
there next week will go to Laurel in
stead of to Pimlico unless the Baltimore
county track decides to capitulate at the
last moment by asking .or Sanctioned
dates.
Meanwhile, it is said, the Pimlico Off
Gals are trying to sow seeds of discon
tent among the horsemep, so that in tins
it will be possible to wreck the Jockey
Clubs power. If the New York track.
were able to race the Jockey Club could
swing Pimlico into line without serious
trouble. but as the hOrsemen must de-
pend upon race meetings outside of The
state of New York some of them may
be induced to break away.
Negotiations between Pimlico and the
Canadian Racing Association, which gov
ems the big tracks in the Dominion, are
under Roadway, the idea being to form &
new International turf governing body
which would compel all the tracks II
the east to renounce allegiance to th'
Jockey Club. 1t is known that Pimlict
has favored this idea for several years
or ever since the New York tracks be
came crippled by legislation. Thoma.
Clyde, one of the big men in the Mary
land Jockey Club, believes in the Cana
dian alliance and is opposed TO locke.
Club control. There are other person.
interested in Pimlico. though. who fee
that the Jockey Club in its present pre-
Gicament should be upheld.
1T doesn't cost anything to secure thu
approval of the Jockey Club. said
racing official yesterday, land the PIN
leo people always have received the an
nual sanction. The only stipulation
named by the Jockey Club is the recog
milton of the forfeit list, which is a ben
eft to horsemen as well as track owners
The attacks upon racing have never in
Guided the Jockey Clubs honesty of pur
pose or its fair. square government o
the turf If Pimlico doesn't ask for
sanction there will be turf war TIL:
Laurel track is for the Jockey Club first
last and all the time. which is at leas
one anchor to windward.'