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METROPOLITAN RACING BIG SUCCESS So New York Racing Commission Points Out in Report to State legislature ALBANY N A April S Horse racing under the supervision of the New Aork state raring coin mission has never within recent years liien con ducted in a more thoroughly successful basis than it was during the past year according to the animal report filed with the state legislature by the racing commission for the year of IflPi IflPiThe The commission is not and never has been a burden on the slate treasury Its expenses are limited by law to the sum of 5000 annually and are paid by the several racing associations di ¬ rectly to the state comptroller upon his assessment thereof thereofThe The total number of raring days the past year was 1 15 in 1I1S it was 12S in Pilti ther were 107 and only 07 days in the year ll llThe The purses and prizes offered and awarded for the last year reached the sum of l17tS2 being a big increase over the figures of 1118 as against i50150 in PJIO and H500 in 1K5 1K5The The icport states that the thoroughbred yearlings which were sold in the state at public auction dur ¬ ing the year so far as the records show brought an average price of over 2100 each eachThe The Jockey1 Club continues to maintain its breed ¬ ing bureau which it began in liMlf and the repirt says it finds that this bureau has sixteen stallions in Ncv Aork Stat nineteen in Maryland six in Pennsylvania ami ont with the Grosse Point Hunt Club near Detroit Mich MichThe The sixteen stallions in New York State were mated with 12 mares in Plll During the four ¬ teen years which the breeding bureau has been in existence the total number of 77i mares have been bred to these thoroughbred stallions stallionsThe The report also contains comments by Colonel Fair of the I S A and active members of the Heiiioiini Commission and of Colonel I L Scott commander of the issue and sale of remounts after the Livingston County Fair which the state racing commission believes is worthy of consideration considerationColonel Colonel Fair said It has been a very great surprise to find such substantial results in so short a time and it shows what can be done through intelligent cooperation cooperationThe The thoroughbred nd the thoroughbred sire alone should be employed in the work of the cavalry horse production lie alone has the refining in ¬ fluence and transmits the qualities which make for improvement no matter what type of mare he is crossed with ami I am for him first last and all the thin It is a splendid work and other communities should follow the exampb of Genesee Valley in its production of vavalry mounts mountsThe The commission makes no recommendations in its report to the legislature legislatureTin Tin report is signed by James AV AVadsworth chairman and H K Knapp and John Sanford commissioners
