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Show WINTER TRACKS ARE FILLED WITH HORSES Rosedale Will Ask for Dates; Racer Goes From Alaska to New Orleans. By JACK SALINE. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24. Though it le still some- time before the tracks will be getting on new coats for the spring and cummer race meetings, horsemen seem to be showing a bit more activity than usual t In preparing for 1917. There Is something in the wind that portends a great year on the turf and, for that matter, a general gen-eral upbuilding all around with the future fu-ture showing roseate. Those who are goin? to race their charges this winter are already at one of the four winter courses. Those horsemen horse-men who, like baseball managers, want to train their charges In the souili, have already packed up bag and baggage and started on their journey. Palmetto Park, the old track which ran two seasons and then went by the boards owing to adverse legislation, is thriving again as a training camp. About 100 horses are there now and within a few days there will be several sev-eral additions to the colony. A. K. Ma-comber. Ma-comber. Jefferson Livingston and E. R. Bradley are the horsemen with big stables there, but a few of the smaller are taking advantage of the climate and are stringing along on the judgment of Cliff Hammou, Lou Tauber and Waller Jennings. New Kentucky Track. There is a good deal of interest being shown in the proposed Rosedale track, which is to be built almost within sight of the Latonia course. According to those I who are interested In the venture the ; track will be reudy sometime during the spring and it Is hoped bv them that the ! racing commission will grant dates for' a summer meeting to be held after the close at Latonia. Diamond Star Grove is the name of the plot taken over bv the capitalists. capital-ists. Former Congressman Joe Rhink la given credit for bein? the moving spirit behind the body of men who seek" to get Into the racing game in Kentucky from the promoter's end of it. The followers of the turf are watching this experiment !osey. From time to time there has been a wail from business circles tha too much racing was being held in the Bluegrasa state. The racing! commission backed up the business element ele-ment by t utting down the fall dates. At present the combined dates of Douglas Doug-las Park -find Churchill Downs in Louisville Louis-ville do not exceed the total number of days granted each year to Latonia So far the crowds have held up well at Latonia. La-tonia. that track having Cincinnati and surrounding territorv to draw upon It i possible that Rosedale could break in with summer and fail meetings of about ten days each and be successful. However as in tne case the jockey clubs faced in Can- ' ada with new tracks springing up over I night, the newcomers want an enual division, di-vision, j Stake Values Increased. ' General Manager John HachmeisterJ who has charge of the Latonia and Doug- I las Park tracks, will not cut down any : of the stakes in value and there is a possibility that S15.0t.-0 mav be added to ! tne Latonia Derhy in order to kep un i with the pae set by Churchill Downs, i which recently added $15,000 to the Ken- i lucky Derby ior 1917. According to an' announcement made this week bv Hach" , "jeister there will be the usual number of , stakes at Douglas Park, headed bv the 1 Kentucky handicap, which carries ?io 000 1 in added money. Following are the stak : lor Latonia next spring- stakes rapatliaSerbnVn$15'0,?; Tnaual handl- 1 cap l l-it, miles; Merchants Selline flakes, one mile; Quickstep handicap six ; furlongs; Independence day handicap, 1 :!-( miles; Cincinnati trophy, six furlongs; fur-longs; Clipsetta sialics, five furlongs; Harold Har-old stakes, rive furlongs; Valuation stakes, live and one-half furlongs. The last four are for two-year-olds. The Cincinnati tropin- is the richest juvenile raue of the spring season in Kentucky and always draws a line field. Good Sport at New Orleans. The New Orleans course is beginning to look like former days. The place is fairly alive with good racers and the sport will be far hetter than last year. This fact is assured, inasmuch as many high class horses have been shipped there. Among the latest additions at the fair grounds is a shipment of thoroughbreds from the stable of Marry Payne Whitney. He will go to Xew OrlPans about January 1 to take in a few days of the sport. Following Follow-ing are the stakes put on the programme by Judge Joseph A. Murphy, who has charge of the entire meeting again this season: New Tear's handicap, one and one-sixteenth miles; City Park handicap, one mile; St. Charles Hotel handicap, one mile: Gentilly handicap, one and one-six-teenih miles; Monteleone Hotel handicap, six furlongs: Cosmopolitan handicap, one and one-eighth miles; De Soto Hotel handicap, six furlongs; Grunewald Hotel handicap, one and one-sixteenth miles; Comus handicap, six furlongs; Hotel Men's handicap, one and one-sixteenth miles ($4000 guaranteed : Proteus handicap, handi-cap, one and one-half miles: Monms high weight handicap, six furlongs: Rex handicap, handi-cap, one and one-eighth miles; Martin Belirman handicap (selling), two miles; Crescent Citv handicap, one and one-quarter one-quarter miles. S5O0O added for three-year-olds and upwards. It is to be run Tuesday, Tues-day, February 2 the closing day of the meeting. Prince of Castile, according to a story coming from New Orleans, an old racer, has come all the way from Alaska to participate par-ticipate in the sport there. Prince of Cas-: Cas-: tile is now fourteen years old. If he shows up as well as did Budweiser, a "promising' sixteen-year-old of last season, sea-son, lie wilt be able to earn his fare from Juneau to the Crescent City. Hope in California. If reports are true there lias been a I change of heart experienced in California and that the measure which is to come -up oefore the legislature which will legalize I pari mutuel. wageing on the races has a :fair chance of passage. Some are enthu- I siastic over the chances of the bill, but it is probable that the sportsmen will have i to wait at least a couple of years more before they have legalized wagering on races there. There were two notables aboard the steamship Lancastrian which docked in i Xew York last year. They were North Star and King's Joker, the great youngsters young-sters brought over here by the gold of A. K. Macomber. who seems determined to get together the greatest stable of recent years. This pair shipped well and are now at Palmetto Park. Jockey Frankie Robinson, who rode with I success last season, is to ride for Harry Payne "Whitney next season. Trainer Jimmy Rowe is preparing to have a high-class high-class rider ready to step into the shoes of Joe Notter. |