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OBSTACLE FOR NEW TRACK PROGRESS OF NEW BENGIES COURSE DEPENDS UPON DECISION OF HORSEMEN. Association Reported to Have Declared Itself Against Another Meeting in Maryland — Outdoor Training in East Starts Next Week. By Ed Oak. Wv York. March L4. — If the report is true that Hi- Thoroughbred Horsemens Association lias b-clared itself not to race horses at any new track in Maryland, it will be little use for the new Baa-gios institution to make further progress, at hast id- the time being. The horsemens organization made a similar declaration at a m-i-t iujj in Toronto last year lesc tisiaa; Ontario, and it is doubtful if anv new raciag plant would got horses in that prov- inre. TWa is a aorl of turf pratitHas that has met with universal favor, apparently. UMag horse-•i a. as those in this section are in accord with the ultimatum where tic sport is being jeopardized by J •■■.islative action. It has Ik en tic surplus of tracks in the MUae localities that haa doae atarh to kill racing at s reral points. This is what hotataifa wish to n vols, and tin consensus of opinion indicates plainly tliat sii -h in t ions tiy horseuien will do niucli to per-].i Miate tin- --poit. hath in this country am! Canada. Al times menihers of the Horsemens Association have overstepped the hounds of discretion. Some of the menihers hereabouts were not wholly in vwnpatky with their demands at Hot Springs, believing they should have permitted tin- new Business Mens Association to get a foothold in the resurrection of the sport before insisting on the size of the purses. They possibly forgot, in their anxiety to got a raise of purses, that the Oaklawn plant was idle for many years and that the upkeep expenses and taxes wile going on without one cent of rcYCSSe. Horsemen Entitled to Share of Profits. ■ Horsemen are entitled to a full share of profits of avsuci.itions. as they provide the raeiaa; material. Moreover, the greater earning capacity of horses the greater their raise. Hence the breeding industry i- advanced and the improvement in breeding accelerated. Many tinx ; horsemen only look at the momentary profit* of raciag dariag a aii 1 1 int They do not give much thought to overhead expenses of latteaa arhich at periods are great. The Horsemens tsaoeiatioa is eno of the best organizations attached to racing, if it is well governed and dip] matieal!; carried along in unison with the raciag aaaociatioa*. "By next week I think all the horaca in training h-renbouts will be doing outside exi ■rcise." said Schuyler Parsons while at the Jockey club oivice today. "I was a Betaeeat a few days ago and things v ere- coming along finely. The track is not quite s ife. hut it . ili lie shortly. "Yob will sec a fine band of bom I this year. I am well pleased with till mine, and Mr. Knapp has a splendid string, both hi- and mine beiag ia the hands ol Mr. Karrick. who. I might also say. speaks highly of his charges. They will not be ready much before the opening of the New York season, though the cheaper ones are being shuffled, along. The stake possibilities are being given greater rare, naturally. Owing to the quantity of horses new in training it 1 .oks aa if we shall have larger Dales this year at all tracks in the ea ;t. I hope so. anyhow, to make Ihe contesls more spectacular for the daily patrons of the sport."
