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RACING GOSSIP There seems to be a lack of racing common sense among the St Louis officials There are plenty of really good horses at their beck and call Yot Yo the programme programmed as made up from week to week does not group or draw the cracks into contention The bad horses have plenty of chances and the good ones but few The mod ¬ ern Bern way of programme programmed making in the West leaves a broad mark for the aim of condition commonsonsibility commonsensible Yet condition users seem to cater to the low class and to bear against the elote elate of our horses What folly and how im public The bulk of professional turfmen Turkmen of clamor and interest lean toward this angle of a sport that loses much of its nobility by being forced into the general rut of commonness by the necessity of owners to keep their belongings employed In the St Louis racing display from day to day one can see too many of the Safe Homes Shooting Stars and Tom Darlings DarlingsThe Darlings The argument of this display fitted with tha than racinc Racine material St Louis has on hand suggests the more frequent attraction to races of such horses as Flying Dutchman Buck Massie Massive Free Advice and Simon W An owner forced to dodge about for stake races or to run handicap horses in selling races is not fairly treated Such treatment too takes from the turf much of the personal incentive to betterment and incident benefit to the general body The grouping of bad ones at the expense of good ones too helps neither betting nor attendance
