New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-05
Jockey Club Sanctions Dates
for Meetings at Belmont
Park, Jamaica and
Saratoga Springs.
SEASON TO OPEN MAY 30
Fund of $4,000 Raised to Aid
Associations, Which Will
Conduct Sport by Pool.
ing Interest at Two
Tracks Here.

Belmont Park. closed for the better
flying machines and a horse show or
two, will be formally opened on Memo
rial Day to ...e thoroughbreds, to mark
the new birth Of racing in this state.
The recent decision of the Appellate
Division sustaining Justice Scudder's
betting and the liability Of owners and
directors opened the way for revival
of the sport, and representatives of the
various racing associations met yester-
DAY. decided to pool their interests and
made formal application to the Jockey
Club, which was granted, for meetings
at Belmont Park, Jamaica and Sara
toga Springs.
The season will open, as said before,
on May 80, Memorial Day and run
through August. Racing will be con-
Quoted three days a week at Belmont
Park and Jamaica, but in all proba-
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continuously. announcement Of which
will be made later. No plans have beeH
made for the fall. but If what is more
or less of an experiment turns out to be
a success the Empire City Jockey Club.
near Yonkers, is likely to conduct q
meeting following Saratoga.
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Racing will be conducted strictly
within the law. one member Of the
Jockey Club said last night that many,
no doubt, would put a false construc-
ton on the efforts being made 10 re-
vive the sport, but insisted that there
would be no public bookmaking of any
kind and that every care would be
used to live up TO the strict letter OF the
law as interpreted by Justice Scudder
and sustained by the Appellate Divi-
sion. He added that owners and di-
rectors of the various racing associa-
tions and members OF the Jockey Club
would have preferred TO await the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, TO which
an appeal has been taken on the ques-
tions involved. but explained that to
have waited would have meant, in all
probability. little chance 10 hold the
horses in this part of the country, as
some stakes in Canada already were
advertised r closing and others would
follow.
The decision then. 10 formulate plans
and announce dates. stakes and purses
was made in the interests of owners.
The same man also pointed out that it
would be necessary TO begin on small
scale and TO go slowly. as racing had
been in a comatose condition so long in
this state that its revival amounted al
most TO an experiment.
The Coney Island Jockey Club did not
Join with the other local associations in
pooling interests. and Saratoga also will
go it alone, as the directors feel that
meeting up the state in August can be
conducted at no great loss. Those VINO
are behind the Westchester Racing As
sociation and the Metropolitan Jockey
Club. which own the tracks at Belmont
Park and Jamaica, are the Brooklyn
Jockey Club and the Empire City Rae
ing Association. controlled largely by
Philip ]. Dwyer and James Butler, re-
spectively.
Fifty-fve days of racing have been
provided for. The meeting at Belmont
Park will begin on May 30 and run
until July =. or eighteen days at three
DAYS a week. The sport will be con-
tinued at the Jamaica track on July Z
and run to the end Of the month with
twelve racing days. \ move then Will
be made to Saratoga Springs for the
month of August. Provision also was
made for meetings in 1914, If those held
this year proved successful.
Bio Fund to Help Sport.
While the racing associations will be
responsible for any losses-and losses
are expected at the two meetings in this
district-the way has been opened for
the owners Of thoroughbred horses To
strive for good sized stakes and purses
through the interest and generosity OF
q number of well known sportsmen. A
fund has been raised. when now
closely approaches $4,000, to be used
as added money for the various his
toric stakes which will be revived.
Among those who have subscribed
are:
August Belmont. Harry Payne Whit
ney. Thomas F. Ryan. II. *. Knapp.
John Sanford, II. I. Oxnard. James
Butler. Joseph T.. Widener Richard T.
Wilson. Charles Kohler. George ID.
Widener and Frederick Johnson.
There are many others who have not
vet been heard from, but the response
thus far has been Of a character TO
make the positive announcement OF
ffty-five days Of sport possible
A partial list Of the stakes which VIII
he offered at Belmont Park for its
eighteen days of racing follows: Met
ropolitan Handicap, Withers and Ju-
venile Stakes Grand National Steeple-
chase. Brooklyn Handicap. Toboggan
,,l,oon croat American Stakes,