New-York tribune., 1919-09-15
Horses Move
To Aqueduct
This Afternoon
Bayview Handicap Feature
of Opening Day: Belle
Rose Stakes Also of Value
b. ". !. Macbeth

For the next two weeks horse lovers
~ Greater New York should find a
lass Of entertainment in keeping with
thp wonderful demand of this banner
season. The fall meeting Of the
Queens County Jockey Club viii be
f,shered in this afternoon at the pcpu-
lar Aqneduct course.
No one. perhaps. Will seriously re-
ore. the shif, from Belmont Park.
where walkovers and walkovers in
rich stake engagements were becoming
10 be the rue rather than the ex-
ception. something must be radically
wrong. Nor IS il difficult to lay hold
Of the reason Of the general unpopular
ity Of Belmont PARK.
With is picturesque setting and
elaborate equipment Belmont Park
shoula be : SARATOGA. That il is not
lies il ths fact thar Re, mont violates
e.-arv tradition q the American turf.
Americans love American institutions.
az they deSpiSe kow-towing to foreign
rnSton. 1t is the tradition Of the
American turf 10 run horses'with the
in.er rail 70 the lef. hand The re
verse WAY cf running as obtains at
Belmor, Park j. not popular with the
supporting public and can never be
made popular
Bslmon. Park IS the only race track
in America where horses run the
~Eng sh' way This TACT is of itself
most confusing Certainly it is CON
tusing TO the thorough 1t is
responsible re for that great tendency OF
all horses TO run out The best
thoroughbreds in training Will run ont
or bear out at Belmont Park simply
because it IS customary for them to
take the fence at their left side
At Belmont Park the element of rae
ing luck enters 50 strongly into the
calculations that nothing can be con-
sdere5 q surety And then again
horsemen desDise the course 1t
simply means educating their horses
four different times during the racing
season. They have 20 educate them
20 ru1 the wrong way. then they have
20 educate them to 'un the right way
again And the two Belmont seasons
iutersect the long summer season
Belmo.- Park never can be made what
it should be till the horses are run
the right way
l. S refreshing, in view of the ex-
ceptiona.iy LIGHT fields that had be-
come customary the last two weeks at
Belmont Park, 10 note the promising
days entertainment Secretary Fred
Rehberser has arranged for Aqueduct's
jail opening. All Of the good horses
have not gene to Maryland and Ken
tacky. as enc might have suspected.
Saratoga in IS palmest day had no
greater wealth Of talent. so far at least
as numbers are concerned, than AQue-
duct Qresen.s lis patrons to-day The
sma.'esr field nominated is eight, and
a. Of ,hem good ones
THIS particular field happens to be
the feature of tie card. the Bayview
Handicap. Of $500 added. at mile
ana siXteeath. Dunboyne, Star
Nas.er, Ver Machine Nalor. Natural
isl. War Cloud, Luculiite and Senuings
ParA are nance ior this event
There are Two good races for two
year-o ds The more important Of which
is he Belle Rose Stakes. worth $500
ADDED over the FIVE furlongs chute
course No less than eleven have been
nominated for this sprint. The other
juvenile contest is TO be SIX furlongz
sad will furnish the curtain number
Twenty two -year-olds are eligible.