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MORE FALL RACING FOR NEW YORK. Now Regarded Certain That Sport Will Be Continued After Close of Belmont Park Meeting New York, July 31. It is now regarded as certain that there will be more fall racing about New York this fall than at any time since the passage of the Ilart-Agnew laws brought about the abandonment of the fall schedules which formerly carried metropolitan racing up to the middle of November. Since the resumption of New York racing in 1013, fall racing hereabouts has been confined to one brief meeting at Belmont Park immediately following the Saratoga season and preceding the fall meetings on the Maryland circuit. It is a cheering sign of the times and a welcome indication of the healthy status of the new regime in racing hereabouts that the time is now regarded as ripe for an extension of the schedules beyond the moderate limits so far adhered to in bringing the sport back. While no one can predict with any degree of certainty just what action the stewards of the Jockey Club will take when the matter comes before them for decision in a few days, there is a well defined feeling that it is now chiefly a question of how much more racing will be provided. The Empire City Racing Association has made formal application for fall dates in September and it is understood that the Jamaica and Aqueduct tracks may also apply for terms. The schedule already arranged provides for the usual fall meeting at Belmont Park during the first half of September. The action of the Empire City Racing Association in asking for fall dates is a direct result of the unqualified success of its present meeting. The meeting has been successful to a degree beyond the fondest expectations of the management and affords a fine example of the progress which racing has made under new conditions. An inkling of how things are going is furnished by the showing which this track made on Red Cross day, when ,411.27 was realized for the fund. This amount represents the profits for the day, over and about the general expenses of conducting the racing. Of course, it must be taken into consideration that the free list was suspended and that everybody paid the admission fee, including jockeys, owners and trainers. G. A. Cochran Has Fine Crop of Yearlings. Gilford A. Cochran, who has been a liberal buyer of yearlings each season since his entry into racing, .will not be in the market for young stock this year. This is not because Mr. Cochrans interest in racing has in the least abated, but. is due to the fact that he has ten yearlings; produced by his own mares,, at Runnymede Farm, his county estate at Mt. Kisco, in Westchester County. Of the ten, four are by Mr. Cochrans own stallion, His Majesty. The others are from mares that were in foal when purchased by Mr. Cochran to strengtiien his breeding establishment. The ten include the following: Bay colt, by Swynford Quair Black colt, by Tracery Glass Jug. Brown colt, by Ogden Golden Drop. Bay colt, by Ormondah. Veil. Brown colt, by His Majesty The Marchioness. Brown colt, by His Majesty Connemara. Brown colt, by His Majesty Pretty Maiden. Chestnut colt, by His Majesty Early Rose. Chestnut filly, by Celt Adriana. Brown filly, by Sweep Henpeck. These yearlings have already been broken and are now receiving their first lessons in preparation for racing at the farm, which is equipped with a private training track. Mr. Cochran, who is associated with his brother, Alexander Smith Cochran, in the ownership of the largest carpet mills in the world at Yonkers, extracts much pleasure from his racing venture and none of the recent wealthy recruits to the turf is more enthusiastic over the sport than he. Under the skilful charge of former jockey W. R. Midgely, his horses have made a good showing each year since the Cochran colors were first shown on the turf. The Cochran stable has just been shipped to Saratoga for the August campaign. It now consists of fifteen horses, five of the twenty with which the year was started having been discarded. Of the two-year-olds shown by Mr. Cochran this year. Bughouse is undoubtedly the best. Other juvenile winners from this stable include Amaekas-sin. Ballast and Currency. Of the older horses. Fairy Wand, Philippic and Jock Scot arc the best known. Mr. Cochran takes a keen personal interest in the condition of his horses and is a frequent visitor to his stable. An innovation introduced in connection wth the Cochran stable is that the stall of each horse is marked by an extended pedigree of its occupant. William II. Shelley, who has been lending valuable aid to racing secretary Victor E. Schaumberg during the progress of the Empire City meeting, will return to Kentucky tonight.
