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JOHN E. MADDEN RETURNS FROM EUROPE. Says New York Racing Will Thrive Without Betting — Will Race Abroad. New York. February 12. — J. E. Madden, the Kentucky horseman, accompanied by his two sons. Edward and Joseph, arrived today on the Cunarder Caronia from a three-months pleasure trip to Europe. The sons went to Hamburg Place, near Lexington, Ky., and Mr. Madden went to Washington, where he has in training many fillies and colts, some of which will be raced on the American tracks this year. Those which show well will be taken abroad next year. "I do not care to discuss Governor Hughes and the effort to stop betting on race tracks," said Mr. Madden. "I will say this, however, racing no longer depends on the Ix-tting end. Its popularity with the public is too fixed to he shaken by the elimination of betting on the races. You can state emphatically that the day of the spectacular bettor has gone by. and happily so. because of the popularity of racing with the people. "There are and always will be the black sheep of the fold. However, the element which seeks reform on all lines loses sight of all the vital points The so-called leisure class form a large part of race track patronage. The young man of leisure loves the racing sport, and devotes his time to it. Shorn of this pastime lie would, no doubt, seek amusement in more harmful ways — in the illumination of the Great White Way. On general holidays, such as Decoration Day or Fourth of July, the Jockey Club can never comfortably accommodate the crowds that go to the tracks. I believe that the price of admission should be raised to . "Do you intend to race abroad?" "Yes. I have four entries for the Grand Prix of 19»»9: nine entries for the Epsom Derby of 1909 and six for the Oaks of 1909." Madden has fifty-four horses in training at Washington. All of them will lw tried out during the coining racing season and he expects that from this number he will Ik* able to get a horse that may have a chance to capture the Epsom Derby in 1909. He was rather enthusiastic about this race lKcanse. as he said, no American horse has won the Uerby siuce Pierre Lorillard captured it with Iroquois. "The horses I will send abroad will be the survival of the fittest among the fifty-four I have in training." he said. .These fifty-four, by the way. are the pick of seventy yearlings that I had at my farm." "Several of my entries on the other side." lie said, "will be ridden this year by Eddie, my own son. He weighs ninety-two pounds, and I will back him against any professional jockey for judgment, sense and strength. I am going to raise my lioys in the same business which I have followed, and they will start where a real horseman should start — in the stable and in the saddle." John Edward Madden, Jr.. the fourteen-year-old son of the horseman, will make his debut at Washington as his fathers jockey. Mr. Madden visited many stables abroad, including William K. Vanderbllts. near Paris. "It is the most complete plant I have ever seen." Mr. Madden declared, "and his horses are the finest I have ever looked at. He has many entries at the European tracks for this season."
