The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-23
KING Continues 10 lend HiSI
Patronagei Famous Stables
and Events Still Feature,

LONDON, Nov. 23--The fiat racing
season In England which ended with the
fltst week Of November, was accounted
quito successful twithsthndinK that II
rnn into the third year OF tho war, 1Ncre
were twenty three meetings In England.
eleven AZ Newmarket four nj lingfeld.
three at Gatwick, three at Newbury and
two nj Windsor There win he 1umplng
meets during the winter. but as special
trains are not permitted and thctupply
OF petrol for automobiles In limited the
crowds are not expected to he up to the
usual standard.
Tho king continued TO lend his patron
age and appears In the final list of win
ners with pufses nggregating Sass to his
credit All the classic races OF the Eng
liah turf were maintained, although many
OF them did not come up to- the value
of the past wears
Newspaper Man Blg Winner.
The leading winning owner was f. HUI
ton. newspaper proprietor with $50
$40 Tho earl OF Derby. whose time IL
almost wholly taken UP BY his duties as
under secretary Of war, kept his racing
enta blirhment intact and waB the second
winner with ti5,s3O. The duke ~ Port
land was third with N0.025, Lord Fal-
mouth was fourth with f3l.5O0; J Buch-
Rnan. fifth with t2bi2b, and Lord ~ D'Aher.
non, head Of tho liquor control board dur
Ing war time. Ia sixth, with t23.2G The
winning jockey was s ponoghue, who had
forty three mounts fret past the wire
days racing at Newmarket, known
as headquarters" OF the English turf
retained this fall many OF the picturesque
features OF pre-war days, with some dis
tinctly novel attractions Tho crowds
we're perhaps bit more subdued, al
though Engllsn racing throngH never
have quite ihe same exuberance, or the
same tendency 70 ride n winner home
ms ono meets on the tracks around New
York, Latonia or Louisville The win
ners here take their winnings with n
calm and somewhat disdainfui self as.
surnnce. while the losers lose with no
disposition to grouse or crouch as Il
would be rendered In American"
Betting FiourIshea
Tho road from town to track Ia fairly
clOgged with all manner OF vehicles ono
finds war time racing In u bit cheaper
than the ordinary sort and entrance ~
the grands,and is to be had for one
pound with two shilllngs extra as n war
tax The stand In not large, for Eng
land takes It's racing In the open-on
the broad lawns and In the open air pad
dock Betting goes on ''as usual with
tho hookmakcrs calling their odds In "A
manner calculated to attract and per
suado In return for a fivrpound note,
or "A one pound note, or perhaps your
two and six" In silver. YOU get bit
OF numbered pastsboard, which may or
may not be worth preserving.
orry Finish In Sight.
Newmarket In not n race track In ths
American sense. The grandstand and
surrounding enclosures seem rather n
gathering station set In the midst Of new
or-ondinE fields OF wonderfully green
and velvety turf But to the right there
are the familiar white rnil fences which
rcTge the several slnnts or straightawaN
coursSs into the home stretch. witness
ing thf start OF an English race Ia moi
vouchsn fed 10 tho spectators. Az II Is
n mile race the horses start mile away
from the grandstsnd. II In a mile and q
half race, they start n mile and n halt
away The tracks here are built for rae.
ing, not 10 afford a spectacle. The race.
goer must be content with the brie
struggle he sees In tho last hundred
ming post. Even this thrill is denief
when occasionally tho finish line Il
moved furlons or 90 UP the track tc
conform 10 some century old tradition
During An Afternoons racing this yeal
one could see on IN. tracks all the col
ors long familiar to the English courses
tho primrose OF Lord Rossbery; th'
black, white cap OF Lord Derby; III,
white. black sleeves OF the duke OF Port
land the yellow. black cap OF the dukI
OF Westminster; the blue and yellow
hoops OF Baron de Rothschild: the darl
blue and buff stripes ~ the Earl Of Jar
sey: tho light blue and pink sash o
Major Waldorf Astor. and the scarlet o
Lord Decies, who married Miss Vivlai
Gould,
Each racing throng contains It's shar'
Of khaki, officers on Inland duty or hom'
from the front on leave Many OF them
like Major Astor. own horses which ari
entered for the various events.