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DEMAND FOR LONGDISTANCE RACES Men who tre in touch with the preferences of racegoers declare that there Is a strong demand on thft part of he public for more longdistance races than are usually provided for by the respective rac inir MMretarics comments the New York Herald It is a fact that whenever and wherever longdis ¬ tance ri es are on the program of the day the gate money s very much larger than the average Visi ¬ tors at Pimlieo last fall when ritz Herbert so easily liroke the twomile record assort that on that oeea Ki ii men ami women from remote pnrts of Vlrlnli Maryland and Pennsylvania made the journev to tlie trick for the express purpose of seeing laith Fib Herbert and the long race These people went hack tn their homes with a new Idea as to what a fine horse really can do over a considerable distance of ground Tlie race mado many new friends for the sport and in circles where moral aid is greatly de fclird fclirdTlie Tlie great difficulty is to fill such races secre tiries assert Friends of longdistance racing on the other hand contend that there has not beeii con ¬ cert of aclicn on the part of the various turf asso ¬ ciations In respect to establishing a series of such events from midsummer to the end of the season If the stewards of the Jockey Cluh should recdm mend that at each course from Julv to Novemlier there should 1 cue or more really long races tojciilminatc in a fourmile event at Aqueduct on iUction div racogoers say a great tep would he takeu towaravwiviuciiii vriliys of thg stwrt that 1 i carrieil on for other reasons than to furnish opportunities speculationIn for speculation In the Ixmdon Field a significant article appeared recently showing liow much better an average days racing Is in France than in England On one day during the Epsom meeting in May last the writer in the Field noted that in France the card of six races included one at two miles and1 a half nnd tlie total distance of the six races was nine miles and three furlongs At Epsom on the same dsiy the longest race was the Derby at a mile and a half and the total distance run In the six races was five miles and one furlong Bacing in l oth countries is very popular hut in France because tliev arc racing for a settled purpose that being for the improve ¬ ment of tlie breed the sport is under the protection of the government
