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A NEW CIKCPIT. The Breeder and Sportsman of February 7 has this to say of a proposed city racing circuit in the west: "James W. Brooks, manager of the Los Angeles Jockey Clnb, which organization was recently prevented from holding a thirty-day race meeting by the passage of a city ordinance preventing betting or races in Los Angeles, has about completed the organization of a racing circuit which is on the largest scale of anything heretofore attempted for spring and summer racing on this Coast. According to the Lob Angeles Herald, Mr-Brooks and his associates, Jim Davis, Bart Cava-naugh, L. B. Eaton, Caesar Young and Zick Abrams, propose to establish a circuit of six cities along lines similar to those of the Western Jockey Club and have already completed their negotiations in securing a foothold in Butte, Mont., and Great Falls. Work is now being done in Seattle, and Portland will probably be made a part of the circuit. Sacramento and Los Angeles are also included in the scheme, the former to be the place for a short spring meeting and the latter to have the closing meeting of the season, as it is believed the Los Angeles council will not restrict fall racing in the southern metropolis, but amend the ordinance so as to permit it. The Herald says : "A winter meeting in the south would be a part of the scheme if certain conditions could be made to work in harmoney with the plan of the promoters. There is some talk of taking in Denver and Salt Lake, but Manager Brooks, who is presiding judge and manager of the combination, hardly favors going so far east. "Brooks was asked if the new proposition did not mean a syndicate book. He stated that conditions in each of the cities would probably govern that part of the matter. In the northwest the betting faternity does not know what any other kind of a book looks like, as the worst cinches in the history of the sport have been regular features there. " We intend to give liberal prices, for we will be able to offer them, says Mr. Brooks. Oar plan is to have the circuit arranged as nearly on the Western Jockey Club plan as possible. Each club would be represented at our meetings. We would have a regular governing body, and intend to allot dates as they are desired, having an eye always to decreasing the railroad hauls of the horses. The scheme would be a splendid one for the horsemen, and I believe it would elevate the sport greatly here in the west, for there has always been a need of soma such governing power as that we propose to offer. We could get the best horses, and with them would be sure of the right kind of sport. Of course, much of our planning hinges on the Los Angeles end, but if we cannot get our foothold here we will race north. " Brooks states that the capital stock of the project is ample and that the scheme should be a good moneymaker eventually, though there will be a loss to foot the first year or so."
