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s - . ■ ■ ..,, ■ ■■■■■.■■■■--.-..».■■« Here and There f on the Turf i i i New York Sport Dae to Zoom j Another Course Is Probable « California Threatens Florida j Goodwin Great Friend of Racing | Advocates of the Crawford-Breitenbach bill at Albany last winter were strong in their belief that passage of the measure, which permits open bockmaking, would mean the salvation of New York racing. The measure was enacted into law after numerous delays, all of which were disgusting to those very anxious for the bill to pass, and racing on the metropolitan circuit started the current year with betting recognized. Statistics for the first three . meeings held under the new deal have been made public I and they show that the Crawford-Breitenbach bill not only is the salvation of racing in New York, but it is giving it the opportunity to develop into the highest character the sport has ever known in America. ■ With attendances at Jamaica, Belmont Park and Aqueduct nearly doubled over what they were last year and the revenue to these tracks more than twice what they were, the managements of these concerns no longer must worry about losses. Each of these three tracks showed a large profit on its spring meeting, sufficient to make a deep i cut in the outstanding debt Beginning with next year, if not this fall, these tracks wont ! have so much debt to pay off and they may be expected to increase the size of stakes and purses that will give New York racing the chance to stand aloof over that offered anywhere else in the country. New York racing, now that it has the chance to reach its greatest peak, will never do so until Jamaica and Aqueduct make way for a new course, unless extensive im- ... provements are made at each of these places. The plants of both tracks are inadequate in their accommodations when the public turns out in any large number, which it has done this year and will continue to do. One of these days the owners of Jamaica and Aqueduct may get together in a pact to abandon one or both of the tracks and pool their resources in the construction of a racing plant that may even eclipse Belmont Park in magnificence. New York racing, under the new deal, cannot be satis fied with the inadequacies of Aqueduct and Jamaica. . As mentioned before in this space, California is planning to make a serious bid for pre-eminence in winter racing this year and this is indicated in very positive fashion by the announcement of stakes and purses to be offered at the inaugural meeting of the Los Angeles Turf Club, whose new track, Santa Anita Park, will be in operation from Christmas Day until February 23, Headed by the 3100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, to be run closing day, the outlay to horsemen will Continued on nineteenth page. | I I I I I 1 j HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF • Continued from second page. amount to 68,000. The minimum purse I will be 00, with events of higher value also offered daily. With William P. Kyne constructing a 1 course at San Mateo with which he hopes 3 to better the sport that has been offered at t nearby Tanforan and Agua Caliente staging I a shorter but snappier meeting, Santa Anita, California, will have a winter circuit of much 1 greater length than Florida has had. Racing " in the Everglades state begins around Christmas and continues to the first of f April, whereas the West coast will have almost steady racing from the middle of f October until spring. With stakes and j purses at these tracks maintained at a high Z level, many eastern stables may find the lure too great to remain at home. That hundred _ thousand handicap already has the " owners of several of our best thoroughbreds pondering deeply. The death of Augustus F. Goodwin by a fall from his horse removes one of the leaders in the fight for racing in Massachusetts. This sportsman long has been a powerful j " figure in the doings of the Eastern Horse Club, which organization has sponsored J hunts meetings at Brookline for many sea sons and for the past few years has made e I | annual efforts to have a pari-mutuel law f 1 passed in Massachusetts. Now that success s is about to be achieved in this direction, one e of the leaders in the fight is deprived of the e chance to enjoy victory. Cheering news is that Mrs. Isabel Dodge e Sloane is winning her battle against pneumonia 1- and should be well recovered in a a few weeks. Most likely she will spend her r convalescence period at Saratoga, where Dr. r. Robert A. Smith will administer such ti wonderful tonics as victories by Cavalcade, ;, Special Agent, Okapi and other stars of Mrs » Sloanes Brookmeade Stable. Through h Cavalcade, the public has come to know Mrs. 5. Sloane very well and it has found her a person - well deserving of a horse like the three-year-old !- champion. Her rapid recovery is s the wish of every friend of racing.
