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GREATER MONETARY VALUE . ♦ More Money Must Be Added to • Long Distance Stake Features. i + Only Way to Encourage Breeding and Racing of Cup Horses and Stayers. 4 PTRW YORK. X. Y.. January 2. — There baa been ■ mat deal af talk recently about tarreaetag the value of the welght-for-agc take* in ihe long distaam rkn, t ut ap t » data it has sssoaatml to t:ilk in New fork. 1ntil there is more money added to such races their fields will continue to he small. Wr are not gait to raise real stayers and Cap horses when -ncli races as the Hopeful at three - qaartora of ■ aiUe aa the last day at Saratoga is worth 1920.sh0,800 and the Saratoga tip at one and Uireo-qnartcrs is worth Sri.200. such as it was when Kxterminator heat Purchase in one of the aioat remarkable races ever run. equaling the track record, aad this on a muddy track with 120 ]H unds up. It was the nassr when .lolncn heat good aid Koaaier la 1018, and , 000 when the faan and 1 •ii.c-i Omar Khayyam boat Spur in 1917. Jhe hroodara must prostata horses to suit the Livers and the huyers want the ones bred to win the biggest stakes. Those that run fast as Iwo-year olds are the ones preferred, because the bag momy is aaootly for two-year-olds. The Annual champion, which used to be run at the Bheepe-head Hay fall meetings. «u a two and one-quarter miles dash for 1 luce -year -olds and over, worth Sjd. .",." win n Snhidcre won it in 1907 and the KjUne, ■a Inu King .laines won It from Falcada a year later. The Great Republic at one and one-quarter miles lor three-year-olds and over wis worth over si I Hhi when Delhi won it in 1904 and the sesae the next iiar when Sysonhy won. Bare* like these are worth waiting and striving for. Yes" and h; ceding for. Five or six thousand dollars is about the richest weight-forage race we now have in New York, and most of such are handicaps few and far !»• iw.-cn. While the two-year-olds race for as much and more almost every week. Whats the use of manjaaj a horse a mile and a half or two miles for $.".000 or SU.ooo when yon can run them five-eighths or three-quarters for the same amount, or maybe five times as mnchV WHAT HAS NEW YORK DONE? lloth Maryland and Kentucky have done considerably more to encourage long distance ractag Hum has New Yolk. Of course theee two states can afford to be more liberal than New York, as they derive great MWaa from the mutnel system of speculation, hut thai doesnt alter the fact lhal the Hopeful and Futurity . Ixilli run in New York, are worth about five times as much a- any "distance" race f. r matured horses run in New York, and it seems all out of proportion. To restore long di-t.ince ractag Mi i.vland and Kentucky Inue done considerable. What his New York done. The answei may be that the Hopeful mid Mich two-year-old stakes, especially ;,t Saratoga, seldom cost the association anything. They are guaranteed stakes, and tiie entrance fees gOBO rally amount to more than the guarantee, cad in such cases the horsemen are ranniag their horses for their own money, am! nit a dollar id the saaoeiatteas. Last rear was aboiil the only one in reeeat years in which the Saratoga Association had to mid anything to the priin1p.il two year-old stakes. I ntil the races for matured horses and over long distances nre o!" greater value tin- buyers are goiag after the breed that race as two-year-olds, .mil the public brooders, which constitute the largo majority, are gotag to try to produce what their customers want. The only horse in several years lo head the list of winners in America oilier than a two-year-old was sir Bartow. The highest priced yearling for years in Baglaad was the eolt by Swynford — Iilue Tit, whicli said last tall for i.ver 7,080. The dam of this , . It had two foals to race in this country, and though bath wore by the highest class sires neither of them amounted to much. Btae Devil was by Bttndridge and worth hhoal 00, aad win sun be a foar-year-old maiden. The other. Wigstoae, by the great liayardo. sire of Gateshetwagh and Cay Crusader, the Epsom Derby winners of 1!M7 and IMS, amounted to but little as a racer. The highest priced rearltag ever sold in this country was King Thomas, by Ktag Baa - Maud Hamilton. lie brwaghl 808,000 at aoctioa and was •old shortly afterward at private wale for a reported price of 8,088. lie was ■ brother to Baa lo .-nd Ktag Fox. two real toppers. ltut thats about all that could be claimed for him. He won one small parse and was ,,| the cheapest class ;|s a race bet* ,
