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WELL ON THE WAY TO REHABILITATION. Restoration of Past Glories of Racing on Eastern Tracks in Sight. New York. June 16. — With a fall schedule under consideration and each association adding to its racing time, racing may truly be said to be on a fair way to restoration of all its past glories. Horses are just as good as ihev ever were and the stakes are just as keenly contested. Some or the princely values have been cut considerably, but after all that is something that only affects a few of the big stables and it in no manner alters the nature of the contests. fitch day the new order of things In the betting part of racing is being simplified, and that adjunct to the sport has now been regulated to a point where it cannot offend, and at the same time patrons are feeling secure in their rights to wager with one another and keep well within the law. At Oraves-eud it has been shown conclusively that the associations themselves will punish offenders for the benefit of the sport itself, and they are better qualified to enforce the law than are officers wlio are not familiar with the racing crowds. It Is thoroughly realized and appreciated bv the associations that a certain amount of betting is inevitable, but they have the same realization of just what Is legal and what is illegal in betting, and any attempt to overstep the bounds means banishment from the course for the offeuder. This is keeping the betting folk well in line, and just so long as the law is so interpreted and enforced, racing will prosper. As betting is carried on now it is not unlike the English method in some of its workings and no reason exists for its not becoming just as popular and simple as the method on the other side of the Atlantic. What has lieen shown, and shown conclusively, this season, is that the betting is only an incident and that racing is still and always will be a sport that will attract for sports sake. It is reiiorted that after the Saratoga meeting, all of the New York tracks will schedule at least five racing days each week.
