Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-23
WANT AMENDMENT TO RACING RULES
RESTORING TROTTERS AND PAGERS TO
SLOWER CLASSES IF W|NRACES STAND
History Shows Most Great Winners Are Wasted and
Back to Farm Soon After They Reach Top Form and
Establish MISUNDERSTANDING Useful Life of Racers Will
Better Sport and Add to Values.

Cla6Stu tIOtteIS anu pdceTS UdVG W
contend with. Baron Hal, one OF the
old guard and still a useful horse, made \
lis winrace In 1912. In 1916 he won
one out Of eight starts. in 1917 two out
of ten. in 1918 two out of twelve, and
in 1919 two out OF ten. Down in Maine
the trotter Baron Gidnut made his win
race in 1913. In 1916 he started twice
But failed to win. in 1917 he failed to
show in front in ten races. In 1918 he
won one out of seven starts, while this
year he failed to score in five races.
The clever old trotter Carnathan Is an
ether fair sample, He made his win
race In 1914. In 1916 he won one out
OF eleven races, while he was started
zine times in 1917 and six in 1918
without winning Phyllis the Great
made her winrace in 1916. Since then
she started eight times in 1917, nine
in 1918, and eight in 1919 but failed
to win. Pony Boy III won eleven out of
rineteen starts in 1917 but failed in
ten races in 1918 and had but one win
ming tab in 1919.
OTHER HALF-MILERS
Hurry On was marked in 1918 He
was started in ten races in 1918 and
1919 without winning. Acheen made his
winrace in 1918, while his card shows
that he was started in five races in
1915. four in 1917, and four In 1919
1 YlIHouL AlIC. NJ. WAS Tdctf
| in Virginia and Maryland and Penn
| syivania. She made her winrace in
1918. In 1914 she won four out of fiji
| teen starts. in 1917 four out of four
teen, and in 1918 failed to land after
eight opportunities. A. NJ. in 1916 won
| ten out of seventeen starts, in 1917,
three out of twelve. while in 1918 and
1919 he was started in sixteen races
without winning.
| These half track horses are re-
ferred to on account of the statement
that the change would benefit starters
on only the mile tracks What goes on
enc will always fit the other The only
difference between them is the rate Of
/ sreed and size OF the oval
/ From another quarter there has been
a protest that this change will iniure
the breeder. possibly for the same rea-
son il man gets his shoes repaired
instead of purchasing new pair, he
reduces or retards the output OF. the
manufacturer. What is he going to do,
however, IL he cannot get new pair
or. a new horse?
Anything that will prolong the use
ful racing life of a trotter or PAGER
! adds to his value. That is what the
proposed amendment will do. Any
} thing that will keep stations get be-
fore the public and in the winning
, column helps the breeder of that strain
) amendment will do. Anything that will
/ give the public more and better racing
: instead OF light fields and one sided
i contests will add to the revenue of the
fairs and racing associations and en-
courage them to give larger purses
} with liberal conditions and more meet :
ipgs. That is what tho proposed
| amendment will do
WHERE THEY BELONG
Af uaIy
falf mile track performers as Alice NJ.
Il. M, Baron Hal, Baron Sidnut, and
Phyllis the Great racing their heads
off year after year for nothing. they
will be given an opportunity TO win
again before they are reclsssified with
new competitors. what is true of them
Is alos true of the mile track horses
I that have been trailing in the dust for
|, several seasons.
I There il no danger of any OF the
a 2: 10 Kind going to the pumpkin shows
! to make a clean up in the 2:40 or 2:3O
, classes. They never did and they new
: err will They will be raced where they
q belong and where they will have a
. chance to win purses that are common
q sura te with their value. That is wha I
: fiyes the place where horses are start
ell.
Racing today is business PROPOSE
ton. There is very little sentiment in
: 1t other than what is seen in the flu
TURTLES. Such things nutter out OF
| the window when the aged horses turn
| for the word They are after the mon
| ey first, last and all the time, and tbs
i proposed amendment. If adopted, will
y give the outclassed ones another OPP
rortunity to make bid for it. That
they will have to be up to somethine
in order to make another appearance
. In the column of winners is evidenced
!, by the showing OF the new mat/iai
/, NcGregor the Great and Senardo show
. what is being done on the mile tracks
/. while on the two lap courses they will
: be called upon to meet horses that can
: do what Mile Irwin and Belgic did
I this year and what Red Bearer and
= Ruby Aubrey showed in 1918.