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ONE SHREWD LEGISLATURE FLORIDA LAWMAKERS SHOWN JACKSONVILLE PLANT AND KILL ANTI-RACING BILLS. Where the Jacksonville Horses Scattered To — Reorganization of Cuban Racing Management — McCarrens Good Stable. Jacksonville. Fla.. April 21. — When the news of tin- defeat of tin- Scott Mil in the senate at Tallahassee reached Moncretf Park aa nuns day 1. t-l. latere was mn li joy ami elation among Hie horsemen. This liill was framed to pro liiliir bet ling aa horse ram and was aimed par-tienlarlv at Tainoa and Jacksonville. It was tin first instance in recent rear* where the raring interests cam.- oat aa i • ■ of the rcfaemt n aad the abb nun r in Which the matter was handled by II. 1 . Brown and his associate. I". .1. lons. should prove a lesson to mom of the wiseacres tit the bead of other tttrf organizations. Browa and Poaa have been ;is boar as hees during the tasr three or four months and loin. before the legislature convened the* had a pretty g.MMl Idea of bow they stood. 1ulike other tnrf magnates, they made friends in the lower house as well as in the senate. Legislators were brought down to .la.k-onvillo. larited out to the park, where they were entertained by Davis Daalop and others and show II just what tile plans of the DiX fair organizations really were, Judge Joseph A. Murphv enlightened them on many things and Brown tiHik tlniii over every foot of the park. Their advice was asked in regard to tile erecting of the immense fair buildings which will be built this sum nier. how the premiums shouhl he divided and how the RtaUteaa in the breed Inx bar i aa should he distributed. All this made friends for raring and when two of the anti-race measures rame up in the senate they were promptly killed. Browa has cor lalnly done a wonderful amount of work here and horsemen have him to thank for providing a polol where a MR winter meeting can be conducted next winter. He surely has been the Muses of the racing name and is certainly entitled to a lot of credit. With the close of the meeting at Moncreif Part came a Spattering of the horsemen who participated in the inaugural iiK-t-t inir of the .state fair of Florida Association. The majority wtnt to Lexington. while a goodly iKirtion shipped to HouetOU, A few : labb-s went to Baltimore and the reinaimler took in die rive days meeting at Columbia. S. c. The horse """Then wiio are shipping to His latter point and nlfti to Houston will take in the Oklahoma circuit this r uiunier. The special wliich left hen- for the Houston track cm Sunday last whs made up of the following sts-Ids: V. Kossinger. ::: W. J!. Freeman. :i: M. K. M.Heiirv. 4: . H. Davids, 2: P. Hirtel. 1: K. Still mm. 4: A. W. Faulk. ■»; G. l.vdcekcr. 2: J. W. Bauer. 2; .1. Anstet. 4: .1. Hiniv. 2; T. Smith. 1 II. Cluippell. o: 1 W. Bowles. 2: J. H. Oiapir. i: W. H. Scott, i: W. L. Hatehett. ti. and Hiinler ft Co.. 4. The Lexington special comprised the following: II. MoCarrcii. Jr.. 12: Scott Williams. 4: I". II. -Jones. 4: W. II. Koblnson. 2; M. Burton. :i: .1. I Strode. ii; i. W. J. ItisMll. in: Dilla.d Hill. .", -I. C. Davis 4: P. .1. Miles. 4: W. V. Casey. :.: ;. W. Crowtejr, •; W. P. Bead. 2: C. Noire. 2. aud Ira Cox. ::. Captain It. J. Walker and Harry Shannon ahipped their stables direct to Toronto, whore thev will real up until the opening of tiie Woodbine meetias The bushwhacking contingent which went from bete to Columbia. S. C was made up of the following slables: I;. Marcoff. Hav Thomps..n. Barth 6 CO.. .1. I.. Bonner. C. E. Reynolds. .1. Fdwards. .7. Tricot. M Movers, Cone Lutz. E. .1. Cildersleov. I.. Haymaker, It. Jackson. Joe West. B. Mock. c. Wine. W. v. Caaey. A. W. Wallace, ll. tParrea. .1. carter. .1. W. Kerr. S. T. Carson. 1.. Hunter. E. I nhdnhrrg. E. feck and E. Baxter. The stable that Hugh McCarreii. Jr.. will ship from here to Kentucky will eat an important figure ;it the Lexington. Louisville aud I.utouia meetings, «olh ctivcly they are a better string than he has need la the last few yean back. Beat bar a; II. Las improved wonderfully since last year and. while he has pot grown much in height, he has Spread out -mil is a sturdy looking colt. Camel. a not her of his three year-olds, is also a useful sot! and .should be heard from lre.|Ucntly in selling races. Left Over is a gnat big Striding horse which ha been laJiaailai right aloaa;. while Badat and Helen Virginia should both show up better when they •.strike the hard ttaeks up the country. McCarreii lias two two year-old fillies that he has never started, one of which is called BenaoaaheBe, They are both Eteea and will probably need :i few races liefore they will show to ad: vantage. The McCarreii stable will be a powerful ime in two veat -olds next season. At the dispersal .-ale of the McCrathiaua Stud last f:ill he purchased si weanlings, four by Ceaarioa and two by Wools tbdppe. He has ajso four of his own breeding, all b Hapsburg. All of these youngsters are at Tom .Stevens- farm in Kentucky and the latest report* are that they have come out of winter aaaurten in grand condition. McCarreii has been offered a big bonus on several of his purchases. Mit lie has derided to keep them over and race them himself. Word Peases from Cuba that there has been a rp-crxaatsatleh of the Cuban Bachay, Association and that the rasp at at Alaseadares will be remodeled. Hie plans call for the building of a three-quarter mile track inside of the present one. The mile and an eighth track will also be improved, but this one will be used exclusively for automobile racing. lie- Automobile Club will build a clubhouse on the STOaads as will also the shooting club and the rae-.ug association. A new grandstand will be erected on the side of Hie track opposite 1" where the . resent stand is. The infield will be leveled olT and a steeplechase cours.. laid out. Frank Sleinhardl. president of the Havana Electric Railroad, baa been elected rice-president of the Cuban Bariac ft awn Is ton sad has agreed to build a -pur direct to the eptraaee gates in the rear of the new grandstand Sen. iv Hernandez, the former general manager of the Cuban Racing Association, is said lo have no further eounectiou with tin- association. Tin- one thing that the Havana people aeed more than anything rise is a g«x«l. callable man to act as manager of flu- lacing department. Their trouble has beta that fhey have been ill-advised by men who were not praetii-al in racing and it is to be hoped thai thev will make no mistake this time. Imler favorable conditions it seems that racing could be suce.ssfullv conducted in Havana. There are many people there, nionev is plentiful, the tourist travel is enormous and all that racing needs is a little boeajiaai from ti..- right people.
