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RACING COMMISSION REPORT New York State Turf Ruling Body Reviews Last Years Activities Total Distribution by Ilacing Associations in inState State Was 191S2SC Jlcport Shows Value of the Sport Cited ALBANY N Y March lu Thc Slate facing Commission in its annual report sub ¬ mitted to the legislature Tuesday says that in 1922 the purses and prizes offered by New York associations reached the sum of 5191S2SG adding addingIt It is worth observing that in such a nearby year as 1317 New Yorks distribu ¬ tion to owners totaled 972073 a total which was nearly doubled in 1922 In the five years since 1917 the New York racing field has Kiven the owners the enormous amount of 7839398 and that is sometthing to be proud of ofPreferring Preferring to the fact that the Futurity last year was won by a New Yorkbred horse the report says saysYour Your commission closed its work for the year at a time when the press of the country in reviewing activities of the nation in 1922 was unanimously enthusiastic in proclaiming a countrywide renaissance of racing The unmistakable tone of approval in all these utterances must be peculiarly satisfying to those who have lent themselves to the movement to make racing what it should be an institution worthy of the task of pro ¬ viding the only satisfactory test for investi ¬ gation and experiments leading to the im ¬ provement of the breed of horses and at the same time a healthy outdoor amusement and a growing business that is furnishing employment to thousands throughout the country countryAUCTIONS AUCTIONS OF YEARLINGS CITED CITEDIn In its purely commercial function that of furnishing a market to the breeders of thoroughbred horses the scope of racing is attested by the fact that the FasigTipton Company a corporation of the State of New York last year sold at public auction in this state 453 yearlings the product of New York and other states amounting to 1101 115 115That That the state use of racing as a popular pastime in New York State had shown marked improvement is attested by the in crease in attendance at the tracks lying under the jurisdiction of this commission by the singular lack of such scandal as lias marred the sport at times in the past and by the consequent improvement in the class of patronage patronageBoth Both the present and previous governors of the state attended the races during the year both foixul keen enjoyment there and expressed enthusiastic approval of the im ¬ provement in the class of patronage patronageIn In its more important function as testing ground in the improvement of the breed of horses racing has even more decisively jus ¬ tified itself The year just closed has been marked by cr operation among the governing body of racing in New York the United States army the state constabulary and the farmers of the state which has been of in ¬ estimable value to all concerned concernedIAirOUTAXCE IAirOUTAXCE OF JIACIXG JIACIXGThe The world has come to a general recog nition of the value of thoroughbred blood which reaches perfection by elimination in the conflict of the race track as the dominant infusion in the production of the best cavalry mounts and horses for utilitarian needs This is illustrated by the fact that of the 255 stallions now employed by the U S govern ¬ ment in the production of cavalry mounts 200 are thoroughbreds many of them donated by the Jockey Club other racing associations or individuals interested in horse improve ¬ ment To the word of Secretary Weeks of the war department General Pershing and other high army and government officials has been added that of Earl French com ¬ mander of the British army who found much to commend in American racing as he saw it on New York tracks last summer The eminent soldier declared that England owes much at the outset of the war to he fact that she had for generations been a hunting and racing country and he ex ¬ pressed the opinion that our excellent war machine our superiority in international polo and the fine horse stock he saw throughout the country were largely traceable to the race course courseJOCKEY JOCKEY CLUB BREEDING DUUEATT DUUEATTIt It was with such knowledge that the Jockey Club through which ths commis ¬ sion exorcises supervision over racing in this state established its breeding bureau seven ¬ teen years ago Its purpose is the selec ¬ tion and free distribution of highclass thor ¬ oughbred stallions for general public service Today there are seventeen wellbred stallions so placed Under its impetus the State of New York has attained a new significance in the horse breeding industry In 1922 for the first time the great Futurity Stakes fell to a New Yorlobred filly Sallys Alley from the BiiiRhamton Stud of Willis Sharpe Kil ¬ mer The close relationship between the army and the race course is again illustrated here by the fact that Allumeur sire of Sallys Alley is a cavalry stallion owned by the National Kemount Association of the war department and acquired for the production of cavalry mounts mountsThe The farmers of New York have hot been slow to realize the advantages offered them through this channel The Genesee Valley Breeders Association nurtured by the Breed ¬ ing Bureau of the Jockey Club is now a lusty organization that is rapidly improving the breed of horses over a great section of the state For utilitarian needs they arc mating cold blooded mares with the pure blooded sires now available and there Is also an everincreasing breeding without crosses for the maintenance of the pure thor ¬ oughbred lines It is most significant that the Genesee Valley which has hitherto been practically unknown as a home ot small breeders of pure blooded animals is repre ¬ sented this year by the nomination of eigh ¬ teen mares whose produce of this spring will be eligible to the Futurity Stakes of 1925
