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SEES GOOD PROSPECTS FOR 1915. Andrew Miller, a steward of tlie Jockey Club, has the following to say about the prospects for racing in 1915 in New York: "Without undue optimism, but looking at conditions as they are at present, and at tlie time racing closed around New York last autumn, I think the prospects lor 1913 are exceedingly bright. We will have more horses and better ones the. coming year than we have had at any time since racing was at its height before efforts were made to legislate it out of existence in tills state. "Our new governor is reported to have said that he is not opposed to the sport. so long as" It is conducted along present lines and the existing laws are lived up to. "We shall not ask any new legislation, but just go along as we have been doing, satisfied in the fact that, when less stringent measures are warranted, the public will demand them. Then it will he time for our legislators to act. "That New Yorkers ami those who visit our city want and care for the .sport, and what is more important, will support it, I think was clearly demonstrated last season by tlie splendid attendance we had at the various, meetings. Take our meeting at Saratoga, for instance. Last summer we made money: to be surf, it was no largo amount, but sufficient to carry tlie association until the next meeting in 1915. This next year we will make more. Persons, to a certain extent, are so arranging their business affairs that the effects of the European war are being minimized as much as possible. All this will tend to help racing the coming year- "The fact that so many Americans who were racing abroad have returned to this country, and in tlie cases where they have been successful in getting their horses out of the warring countries, have declared they will race here next summer, will be of inestimable benefit, both to the sport and to tlie thoroughbred breeding industry. "There will be no lack of horses. Tlie wonderful crop of two-year-olds we had last season, particularly those of James Butler and other prominent owners, and the yearlings which are coming on. are plentiful and highly bred. Of tlie older horses, we have many good ones, including Roaiuer. "I reiterate, everything points to 1915 being unquestionably the best year for racing we will have since its rehabilitation."
