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NEW YORK TURF ITEMS OF INTEREST. J. Reiff to Go West Wise Mason and Royal Captive Thriving Racing Magnates Hopeful. New York, December !. Johnny Ueift will not tarry long in New York, leaving for the west next Sunday. His first stop will be Wichita. Kansas, where an older brother is living and, after a few weeks there, he will continue to Oakland, where hit-parents live. Reiff is still a little fellow, onlj weighing 112 pounds in his street clothes, and apparently will never become much larger or heavier. The veteran trainer. Jacob Pincus, has his pet filly, SeiiLentious, stabled at Sheepshead Bay. A; the last Jamaica meeting on three different occasions Pincus started .Sententious twice on one day and the filly prov.ed a hardy proposition, for she ran in the money twice on two different occasions and showed no ill effects from such strenuous work. Senteu-. tious i now enjoying a well-deserved rest, but will be ready for an early spring campaign. Wie Mason and Royal Captive are doing well at Gravesend and both are in such good condition that it fl were necessary they could be primed for a race iu two weeks time. The victory of the good -handicap horse. Proper, at Santa Anita Park the other day. recalled some of the excellent races run by that sturdy campaignei on the New York tracks in 1904, 1905 and 1900. He was the winner of the Omnium Handicap in 1904 and 1905. third in the Brooklyn and Oriental Handicaps in 190-1; second to Beldame in the Suburban of 1905: second to Sysonby in the Commonwealth of the same year, and third to Holscher in the Brighton Cup of 1900. Proper was recently sold to Herman Brandt, who is an excellent man with an old horse or one whose legs are under suspicion and the manner in which Proper won his last race would indicate that Brandt has the old horse in fine condition. At a dinner given the other evening to a party of prominent horsemen, the future of racing and breeding was discussed and the outlook was regarded with hope. James R. Keenc. vice-chairman of the Jockey Club, who was present at this gathering, said he would continue his Castleton breeding establishment in Kentucky and would race a small stable in England and a much larger one in this country. It was the general belief of the gentlemen present that the tracks at Sheepshead Bay. Gravesend and Belmont Park would be kept open and that the cultivation of sentiment in racing will restore the prestige of the sport. "Dry Dollar" Tim Sullivan is making his annua visit to Hot Springs, where he is reported to have arrived, coming from Florida, after looking over the situation there in regard to racing. When asked the other day regarding the turf situation in New York. Mr. Sullivan said: "In the State of New York the reform pendulum hasnt swung baek to normal yet, and we may not have racing of any great importance next year, but it will come just the same. If racing is re-established in Hot Springs next spring, you will get the big eastern turfmen who are looking for a sojourn until matters are straightened out in the east. Your town couldnt hold the people, and if you will extend the invitation they will promptly respond."
