New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
American Riders in Big
Demand on French Turf

father-ln-law, Fred Burlew. is not so
fortunate As trainer OF large stable
Burlew could not find any opportunity for
eating his Christmas turkey back ter
hum"
Winnie O'Connor cannot go to scale
much below 1870 pounds. so his race riding
on the fiat necessarily is limited but he
gets a number Of mounts In hurdle races
and steeplechases lie is game enough,
and no course looks too big 10 him, but
he doesn't take life as seriously as some
Of his more successful rivals do All the
same he is likely 10 win rich jumping
race on II. de Mumm's Trianon III this
season.
AT Nincennes on Christmas Day the
takings of the pari-mutuel, or totalizator,
amounted TO 9594l5 francs. equivalent TO
nearly $40. 900. and exceeded the takinss
of the best previous Christmas totai D!
$4,000. In England. recently, at the war
wick race meeting, an attempt TO coiiuu0'
a pari-mutuel business OUTSIDE OF INC
racecourse was resented by the cro"u'
which rushed the booths and totahzatoi'
which we're set on fire and burned down,
A great deal of money passes through
the machines on the Paris racecour'
each year. and the proportion deduc'oN
Inv the Treasury for 1913 amounted 10
&, oDo 900 but most French owners 90 ho'
lilo the "tote"-some have retired from
racing on account of it-and IT is sdld "
aid the covering up Of turf frauds or IN
crease the difficulty of tracing them. IN
Wow of the promised attempt 10 lhtro-
duce the totalizator on the racetfacAS
around New York, if possible. TINS aspect
is worthy of consideration.
J. e. Davis, who finished fourth IN the
list of winning Jockeys in Italy TOT 1910
with forty-siX victories, while IN farIs
recently expressed an opinion tha'
Nessrs. Bononi, owners OF the besha'e
| SIND for whom he rides, have a -FOUR
,aar-old mare than can beat the best OIL
her sex IN France. Her name IL Arianha'
she is English in blood, and she won ','e
| premio Ambrosiano, worth s2oUv' the
most valuable race OF the ltaliah SEASON
To contemplate a race OF that Naiue IL
Italy must make professional hoIseNiV''
IN America regret they killed the goose
| that laid the golden eggs. Had they CUT
/ -, q LOT of 'doings" and run their
horses on the square public opinion never
would have tolerated the sports stoppase'
! Iobr Sanford. Of Hurricane stud, Am
sterdam. ~ l.. plans 10 have a leaNeiilie
| Of we'll bred English mares in the breed
| tr, establishment he has set up IN
France With this in view he purposes
IN buv A few high class yearling Mines
az Tattersalls's sales each year. Taclhs
them I'm England before bringing over
| bere IN become brood mares. Already nc
| has acquired three such youngsters .
which he mas named Philisua, Rys"lck
| and l<snr Fowl lie has sent them u
ola Ioa Rutters. the Newmarket trainer
that handled the late James II. heehe
horses IN England his last few years
They are by Galhnule, lslnslass ana
yyiuiam the Third. Buffers is training
French two-y ear-old colt for h. de Cour
cev Forbes Also he owns and trans
| for himself two American three-!ear
ODDS. one by Acknowledgment the
other nv Zen Brush-Dominoes.
| Jovner Is expected back AT Newmarket
! from America pretty soon. His stable
iockev -skeets' Martin. is reported In
paris by members OF the local turf col
ony TO be coming out pretty well from
his recent accident while bob-sledding on
the famous Cresta Blanca run at St
Moritz. Switzerland.