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GOSSIP OF THE TURF There is a publication of pith and importance which western horsemen neglect I refer to The Racing Calendar the official organ of the Jockey Club Itis Its keen clean handsome and purely representative It is issued weekly prints the general news of the Jockey Club and its tracks and has no editorial opinion The owner of horses who does not keep it on file is less than intelligent The Jockey Club does not control American racing yet It may do so If its grasp and in ¬ telligence telling thrives and expands as it has under the Belmont regime such control would be a consummation devoutly to bo wished The Racing Calender Calendar strikes a keen newspaper eye as a novelty It is elastic in its conforma conformal ¬ tion ion One week it is sixteen pages strong the next week it may only have four pages Part of the pages in either case may be blank Such is usually the case Why not The paper has said in fifteen or three and a half pages all there is to be said and stopped at the natural end This is a plan that might not be a bad one for newspaperdom newspaper in general generalThe generate The chances are that the Indiana racing will cover November Why not New Orleans can not race in a healthy way until the yellow jack matter has been cleared away Horsemen are not inclined to run into trouble They have enough of their own in financial and other ways The Southern track may run off its early offerings If so it will be with material on hand No Northern stables will go to New Orleans until the town shows a clean bill of health Thats Hats common sense and business
