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JAMES BUTLERS SOUND TURF VIEWS Fjrm Believer in Necessity of Trials of Speed in Connection with Horse Breeding Industry NEW YORK N Y July 10 President James Butler of the Empire City Racing Association whose summer meeting will be inaugurated on Sat ¬ urday and will continue to Thursday July 31 is an optimist on the subject of racing and he is also a firm believer in the necessity of trials of speed In connection with the horse breeding industry Mr Butler has an extensive breeding Etud at Eastview Farm in Westchester County with the sire Pebbles by Ben Brush at its head headWithout Without racing siid Mr Butler today we would be all at sea in the matter of horse breeding Tnis applies witli equal force to the trotting as well as the running turf and by the way the best of the trotters that I have bred and raced in 4he past all had a strain of thoroughbred blood in their pedi ¬ grees It is only by breeding tlie best to the best that we make progress and we only get a knowledge of the weak spots in a mans or horses makeup by setting him a task Jhat will call for a supreme effort effortThe The thoroughbred long ago established a record for courage and endurance He is a dominating in ¬ fluence of tlie horse world improving every other breed with which he is crossed Racing therefore means something big in an economic way to every country wHere it is permitted as well as furnishing a stirring means of recreation to the public publicPLEASURE PLEASURE FOB THE BREEDER BREEDERThe The man who witnesses thetgreat turf battles of the year g ts a lot of pleasure from the sport but 4he individual who derives the greatest return of all is he who breeds and races the product of his own stud When yon follow the youngsters from their earliest days in the paddocks by their mothers side up through the various breaking and training processes and then see them battling with others of their kind and bringing your colors home in triumph there la a1 satisfaction that nothing else approaches approachesWhile While I have not seen a race this year re ¬ sumed Mr Butler who lost his son Pierce in the battle of the Argonhev I understand that the crowds are greater tliah at any time since the days prior to the Hughes antiracing legislation It was only natural that the pendulum should swing back The public has always been fond of racing and I look for the sport to go on making new friends con ¬ stantly We expect to share in this increased pat ¬ ronage at Empire City where extensive preparations have been made for the comfort of our guests The clubhouse has been greatly enlarged and tlie ac ¬ commodations are equal to any on the metropolitan racing circuit It will be our endeavor to give the finest of racing during the period of our meeting
