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SARATOGA WANTS ALL OF AUGUST New York January 5 Racing Secretary A McL Earlorkcr makes announcement that the Saratoga Association has decided to make application fur racing dates from August 1 to August 31 This decision was reached at a recent meeting of the Iward of directors of the Saratoga Association and it is the intention to press the claims for such recog ¬ nition when the matter of dates is taken up by the stewards of the Jotkey Club It was also decided that there should be racing every day which would mean twentyseven days of sjHirt at the Springs Last year the season was one of twentyfour days Rcciitly serious consideration was given a proposi ¬ tion to cut the meeting to twenty days for 1910 but the prospects for a big season are such that the association came to the later decision to ask for a r time than Saratoga has had for several severalIn In 1905 Avhen racing was in a particularly flourish ¬ ing condition in New York State the Saratoga as ¬ sociation conducted a particularly good meeting of twentytwo days beginning August 5 and closing August J The following year the association suf fcnd by the admission of the Empire City Racing Association into the circuit of Jockey Club tracks As in the former year Saratoga was awarded twen ¬ tytwo days in August but for litteen days of the tmie racing was also conducted at Yonkers YonkersWith With Brighton Beach again in this fied for dates It to arrange a schedule that will of twentyseven days clear of con ¬ flict The action of the Saratoga Association in making known its intention to ask for the entire month of August is one of the best arguments that racing is rapidly returning to its proper place in New York State Tim return of Brighton Beach is another and it is well nigh certain that the Metro ¬ politan Jockey Club and the Queens County Jockey Club will also be in the Held for both spring and fall dates
