The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26

IIle uSAC NEW Jersey legislature.
With bookmakers operating in
the open for the first time in years,
attendance leaped in New York.
The two New England tracks
Rockingham Park at Salem, N. H,
and Narraganset Park, near Paw
tucket, R. I.-enjoyed phenomenal
seasons. There was increased in
terest in Illinois. The bangtails
gaIloped for 1913 continuous days in
Detroit. Bets may not have been
as large in the long established
centers of Maryland and Kentucky,
but there we're more of them made.
CALIFORNIA; new turf deal had an
suspicious beginning this winter,
and is to be climaxed by the $780,
900 Santa Anita Handicap at the
new $1,250,000 Santa Anita track,
hard on Los Angeles, on Feb. %.
There were so many additional
meetings in 1884 that obtaining
horses becme a problem.
Sloane Winnings, S251,138
Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brook
meade Stable finished far in front
in the money-Winning department
with $251,138. It's Cavalcade was
the leading money-Winning horse
of the year, with $111,235. Caval-
cade annexed the Kentucky, Amer
lean and Detroit Derbies, the
Chesapeake and Classic Stakes,
and finished only nostril behind
his stablemate, High Quest, which
bagged the PreakneSS.
With Equipoise in the barn most
Of the time, G. V. Whitney, with
$685. $50, was fortunate to beat out
J. E. Widener, who collected $780,
1875. Widener had the distinction
of being the first owner to take
both the Belmont Futurity and
Belmont Stakes in the same year.
His Chance Sun captured the $780,
900 Futurity, while Peace Chance
looked after the $4,000 Belmont
Stakes.
The B. B. Stable, the largest in
the sport, was far in front in races
won, with close to 100.
M. Peters topped the jockeys with
more than 200 victories, with Silvio
Coucci close behind. Highest rid
ing honorS went to Uncle Mack
Garner, however. Garner took the
most big stakes with Calvacade.
Peters turned in the very lofty rid
ing percentages of %; Coucci, 20,
and Garner, 10.
Three-year- old FLIES were sad,
with Mata Hari, Jabot, Bazaar and
Wise Daughter showing little of
their juvenile brilliancy, even though
Mata Hari did score double in
the Illinois Oaks and Derby.
The 2-year-old crop revealed a
cluster of whirlwind performers,
with Chance Sun, Psychic Bid,
Balladier and Nellie Flag leading
the way. Most of them seemed to
be suffering from leg infirmitieS,
however.
Racing seemed dominated to a
remarkable degree by the Fair PLY
line. To this line belonged the g.
year-olds, Peace Chance and Dis
covery, and the juveniles, Chance
Sun, Psychic Bid and Nellie Flag.
Kentucky Steals Sulky Show
Harness racing was more popular
than it has been in years.
Consistently brilliant performers
staged bitterly fought battles.
The outstanding harness per-
Torrance of the year was the re-
markable mile turned in by Law
renee Hanover, a 2-year-old trot-
ter, who whirled this distance in
2:O2. world record time for a colt
of his age. Lawrence Hanover
thus equaled the time MADE by his
full sister, Hanover's Bertha.
The greatest contest of the sulky
season was the senior Kentucky Flu
turity in which Princess Peg hum
bled a field that included Lord Jim,
winner of the Hambletonian Stakes;
the faultless trotter, Vitamine; Emily
Stokes, 2:01lz, and Muscletone,