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STILL HAS HOPE OF MISSOURI, Barney Schreiber Believes Pari-Mutucl Betting Will Be Sanctioned When Legislature Meets Again. Lexington, Ky.. April ,11. "While the last legislature was not in favor of the passage of the sane racing measure that was presented for their consideration. I have not abandoned hope that the sport will be revived in Missouri." said Barney Schreiber during his visit to. this city Sunday and .Monday. "The people of the cities of St. Louis and Kansas City are unquestionably in favor of raciug. and I believe that the majority of the people in the agricultural districts want it. but they must have a positive assurance that none of the people in the syndicate that controlled the St. Louis tracks when the lid was put on six years ago will have anything to do with it and that no stranglehold methods will be employed. I believe the legislature at the next session will pass a bill creating a state racing commission aud sanctioning limited meetings under the pari-mutuel system of betting. "Say. you ought to have seen Jack Atkiu when lie arrived at Woodlands last Friday. All of the boys at the farm and all the neighbors and the folks from the village of Bridgeton were at the depot to meet him. The stud groom had fixed up a bridle with Mowers and when he put it on Jack and Jed him out of the car, everybody cheered and fell in behind him for a procession to the farm. When he got there lie looked all around: looked at the house; and the grass and the trees, as much as to say I like the place, but where am I at He looked like he had forgotten that he yvsxn born there, hed been away to long. I would have had him back there long ago if tilings had been breaking good for me. but Jack had to help pay fur what those other four or five hundred horses have been eating all the time lie was racing. Thats why I kept him at the grind as long as I did, and hot because I do not appreciate a good horse. Necessity makes us do a lot of things that we do not want to do. Well, 1 put Jack in a stall alongside of Sain, his father, and there he is to stay if I; can make some of the other horses pay the hills for them as lie did. "Sager aud Captain Carmody I expect to eon-tribute a good bit this year, Sager has grown Into a handsome horse. He stands seventeen hands high and lias muscle and weight in proportion. Captain Carmody is a mighty good three-year-old. The horse that beats him for the Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington and the Kentucky Derby at Louisville will know that he has been running some." Mr. Schreiber said that lie would send several of the horses that he had at the winter tracks to Denver and other meetings of the luter-Mountain circuit. The horses that he will race in Kentucky will be trained by WilllamwCahlll. -He will shaver, six here for the spriug- meeting." "
