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BETTER OUTLOOK L EAST TURFMEN IN TOUCH WITH NEW YORK SITU- , ATION EXPECT RESUMPTION OF RACING. Favorable Legislation Looked For at Albany in the Near Future r.nd Recent Decision of Court of Appeals Is Considered of Importance. New York, January 29. —••Such a fluttering among the del oti as." when the neurs was received from Albany on Tuesday that the Court of Appeals a* ! •let-hied thai it as ni crime foe ;i man to write upon paper the aajae of m horse he wished t » back, band it to another man. with the money, and thus exercise ■ right which all the big raeiag men and ail other* have held to be Inalienable -the right t Individual netting. Will the tracks be opened opoo this decision .• I his was what i.nl I ns of men and women all over the United states arere eager to know. The aaea who collect live raring news tor the metropolitan preaa were at oace "on the Job," hut no on.- in authority could say anything until they li.-id seen * ropy of the decision, on Wednesday liht the moat notable racing raaa in the I alted State* invited to his house a party of three well-known turt wrtt ra of man; years" experience and there in a leaaion of three hours the newspaper men were shown the g i effect of the latent deeiaton as well as the difficulties which still stand in the way of . pining the tracks. The chief obstacle is of coarse roe directors liability law. with its opportunities leu only lor personal malevaleace, hut amo because of its deterrent effect on a decent, law abiding pab lie. who do not wish to assist ill even a technical violation of the statutes. N Kt in importance- is the law Which now foil Ida hookmaking with or without writing. Who ever heard bookmaktng without writing? These are the two hurdles over which the racing area: Banal l«- able to leap before tin- apart can in- resumed mi anything like the sane old scale which existed up to June of l.ios. There is good groand for hope thai these laws will he so amended as to cause 111. racing associations to once aaare open their Kates and invite the citizens of tin- United States to view the gr atest raiting in America, so nigh In class as to challenge admiration from all foreigners. This above alluded to declared that he had an* ruaacial to the state pride "t the most prominent of this Empire States many big men who dominated In politics. He pointed out bow the whole country looked to New V-ik for the beat there is in sport. How some of the beat stallions that could he bought In England had been Imported so that tin- clsaa M borses could ,■ kepi up. How it is that the beat of the produce of these stallions wire not now in the hands of Am. rican horsemen, for stn.it in their own country, but had been sent abroad and par chased by Englishmen t- he raced in Great Britain. How necessary it was that even such racing a- -1:11 v. -in on in the Cnit.-d Stales shouhl be under the control of tiie Jockey club, and that one sraj to keep the ruling turf bodj a dominant factor is to bale racing restored in this state-. .Much that was at id at tin- conference waa of sac a nature :.s n. t t.. he dis. Based in public, hut the impressi-n was gleamd that the friends of racing will tliis year at Albany he aide to effect remedial legislation, especially as the cooperation of the State Agricultural Societies is now assured, something which la-t rear was not tin- case. Be all who now are interested in the royal apart are much encouraged, and each day the news from Albany is keenly scanned. The session this season will lie a short one, on account ot presidential year. an 1 hence we si, mi,] know early in April how wa stand. Inci- the word goe* forth, there will 1m? great retoiciag. Already Harry W. Smith, the well known anting man. has announced a renewal of the faoi-ii- sportsmans dinner, which will be beM Febrnarj 12 at tin- Waldorf, and which may be compared with the far-famed Glmerack Club dinner in England, at which the Jockey Cluh makes known its contemplated reforms and amendments, and which always 1- reported in full in the prin clnal pagers. Men. therefore, who own race horses, ought to he congratulated at the bright outlook, tor erer* horse will than lie worth three times his present value. The happy result which brought tin Charleston meeting under control of the Jockey Cluh. where It ; ngs by right "i geographical situation, i- also :i good thine for the hundreds of men who depend Upon the turf for a living. They would have Ih--:i badly off in case outlawry had been the sequel ol a refusal to aak for a license. As it is now, the moment racing la resumed in New York, all those turfmen will he in a position to realise many times u; ..a their holdings. As is well knowa, horses are scarce, and it Would he hard to race every dSJ ii the week h.r.. without reducing the tie!, is in Kentucky and Canada, to say nothing of the far west, where 150 days of racing are in sight for 1912. Ai -in evidence at bow hard it la to obtain hereto; the eouaparatlvely few days devoted to amateur spurt here an I In Slaty land, it was told by Mr. Belmont recent]] that four tin.es tbe price was paid .-isi year for such horses as prevailed when pro-feasinusl racing wss looming, and even then, said Mr. Belmont, these bones were id poor class ami w. r.M In n dm.: on the- market in the prosperous days of the turf. "II racing is resumed hero. I shall try to induce Mr. Wider.. -l- to sell his French stable or to bring them here to race." said Tom Welch, as hi dis I the c-ilti t ot the- recent decision. This is oniy one- of man; such ases. Tin American racing men bj Prance are all doing well, bat many of them would much pr fet to race their horses in their own land if II wen possible to do so. Welch, during id- six months sojourn In France last summer. sau a lot ol interesting thine-. "The p iresl I irse in France can win soaae kind of ■ race," be said, "!;■■• necessarily around Parle, hat in tbe smaller town-. This keeps the price of all borses high." II- -, Ziegler and I san three days -port at Caen, at which Mi. Too wa- given away. Th.- oldeet -tak--iii France, the French Kt. Leger, is inn at this little town. At Vlaceanea ! saw an Interesting •■ uotic-r- m •iint..!. and over lumps. To be eligible, borses bad to i" able t.. trot ii.-furlongs in 1:11-1. The claiming clause in French racing, whereby any h rse in a -iline race can be claimed by the owner ot another in tie- race. work* all right, and ought t-- l»- adopted here. A- there are rarioua finishing places on French courses, large red disc* ar - evhil ited s,, that both the Jockeys and the public can see just where the tinish is. You kn-wii folia nearly lost tin- Belmont Stakes oceans his i-- k forgot that the lini-., wa- bej i the regular stand. r4"lher. are no badges for hor-e-men. They are identified at tie- irate- and passed in. Tree- passes are unknown everybody pays. Henry Ziegler has m sold out hi- wo.,.- establishment and i- returning to Am. ;i.-. i. 1 beard One cannot train a public stable until In- ha- been three years in tbeeoaatry. This due* not prevt-nt on.- from being i private trainer tor on.- employer tlec Farter, the great steeple chase rider i- now a c.,rp.,ral and will s-«cn he a sergeant in Ibe army, you kn.-u .-o-niM,,h must th milium duly, not only in Crane.-, bat in tier main. This i- whj few good Jockey* are developed In those countries. Tiie youths arc drafu-d into military duty at the very time when they are becoming proficient as jockeys, and this is one reason why American riders do well in Iioth those lands — their competition is limited. Carter is better than ever as a Jockey and has just won the two beat anil most valuable -takes at Nice for Mr. James Hen-nesay. Patriotic- tiiouli Frenchmen are, they would rather win the Epsom Derby than the Grand lrix despite the fact that their own stake is about two and a half times as valuable as the Derby. They know that it take- a goad horse to win the Derby. T think we have- hied plenty of horses in tin last thirty year* that could have won the Derby, l.ut our own stake s were so valuable that the horses wen- kept here. Did not Miss Woodford boat Iro,piois when he was Draught hack in ISSJC Of course Iroquois must have lieen good, because Mr. LoriUard Ix-t a fortune on hitn that day. I could name at hast fifty American horses that might have won the Derfoj in their years. Speaking of good horses, you know I trained Orniondale whin he w.n tbe Futurity. He may not have beau the beat two-year old f that year, hut he was the beat "ti that clay. He could always heat Mohawk. The latter ccculci not have won if he had gone to the post that clay. Yes. Flip Flap was a good lily in that race and later showed it. You know how Whii-y Langdoa came to bay bee the next season: I had Oran for Mr. Macdouougfa, and be was a better horse than was I irinondaie La his year. Oran one day heat Ballot. Laagdoa had made up his mind to bet on Ballot, but aa be was haTinjr the paddock le met me and asked if Oran had a possible chance. I think hell win.- I said. "Laagdaa then let on oran, which won at S to 1. and on that race- won something like ?." 0.000, with pari of Which he bought Flip Flap from Jack Hen int. The BriRhton Cup that year looked at her fnefcy. but she had been sick and conk not have-been worked enough for the r*ce. and that no-account horse of nilly Shields. Uolscher whose name- I can hardly recollect, beat her at 20 tn 1. It was too had to see such a good mare lose to so poor a horse, thouch 1 will say he was a good stayer. One f the nicest little bets 1 ever won was from my flic n.l John Walters, the clubhouse commissioner. The- Newcastle Stables Inquisitor, won the Shcepshcad Bay Handicap in HKlfi at odds of 30 to I. It is Ill to 1 in the Guide, hut Johnny Walters took in one bet from me 00 each way. and all told I won 0,500. Mr. Miller and Mr. Bishop were then at the Salem track, and I Mat them a telegram saying: "Have won .*:!.. cm tor each of you." There wore rive hows so dose t- gether at the end that not one outside the Judges stand coald seperate them. Thats the sort of racing we had in those days. Walter Sillier rude Inquisitor. The mile was run in 1::!T%, which at that time- was n record. "In l.MO 1 won m.ire racos than ever before, and bet moderate amounts on my horses and on other horse-. Tin- lets wore- all made with John Wallers. At the dose Of tin season he- sent BM my statement. I had lost 20 on th,- year. Hut look at the fan I iii. I. •• How did Mr. Whitney come to bay Baahti: Well, it looked a- if sin- had a great Futurity chance, and was. besides, in the Kpsom Oaks. Kd Smith of Ballet m, was in cable communication with Mr. Whitney, who was abroad. When advised of the- forthcoming sale- of tin- Newcastle Stable. Mr. Whitney cabled to Mr. Smith to go as high as 15,000 feci- Baahti. A return cable advised him that Mr. Belmont and H. Carroll Itrown. of Mary land, intended to buy the til ly in partnership and 115.000 «as n.t enough. Hack c-aun- the brief cable: Buj Baahti. Mr. Bdmoal and Mr. Itrown hid 9,000. For 0,000 -h.- wa- knocked down to Kd Smith for Mr. Whitney. "Dont underrate her form in England. Remember that she ran a d aci hea; with Marajax. a year Older h-.rso. he with 112 pounds, -he with 108 pounds, hut it was an apprentice race, and it was oal] in the last few strides that Marajax got up and made ii a dead heat. In I.ashtis first appearand, a handicap, the four-year-old mare Stolen Ki-s.--i since sohl for 5,000, was given 106 pound- I i Baahtia 119 tin latter a year younger. Stolen Kis-cs took nil sc -veil pounds" penalty and WOO this race, the Portland Plate, something under six fur lons. Marajax alnce sold for a lot of money, won the Manchester Cup. mile and a half, value-sii.exHi. carrying 100 pounds. This is the horse that Baahti really cave weicht to and ran to a dead heat. They are near relatives, by tin- way. Marajax by Ajax and Baahti by Adam, the sires f both being brothers. Marajax race in the Manchester Handicap was run in 2:27%, which is the-English record for the distance, and you can gel any amount of money let you by tin- Englishmen th it the tine- and distance are both correct. "I ini told." continued Wele-h. "that Guy earner, the jockey nine once rode for the Newcastle Stable. i- i n his way bach to America. His contract with Mr. Belmont runs to May 1. Be wants to ride for Mr. Stern, for whom Galen Brown is training. I .iont know what the out ne will be. His mother make* hi- contract*. She i- much pal out about the boy. who ha- n,, he en heard from recently. When be was with us he got ,000 a year and ten per cent, on his winnings, when Walter Miller wa- with u- tin- first two wars, his contract called for sv.ocmi each year, which wont to his contract employer, W. r. Staatoa. Miller ought to have money. He- made plenty, hut I understand his mother liked to bet on tin- i;n-. -." JOSEPH I. 1UKKE.
