Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-22 | Page 8 | Winter Racing to be Materially Cut

BE U1Y GUT New Orleans and Havana Only Tracks to Be in Operation. By AKTKTJE STKIAVE. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. The racing ame thi wintp-r is to he very much cur- I tailed. 'l"wo trak?, perhaps tiiree. will! r-e winter ricintr. Thev are Havana and New urlea ns, and possibly Tia Jimna. .Juarez will not s-e the thoroughbreds j i tliis winter perhaps not ajrain until tiie i end of t'ne war. The passport difficulty ! cauffed the owners of the Juarez track; I to announce ihflt they would not attempt to hold a meet this year. The regulations regula-tions require each person crossing into Mexico to obtain a passport on the American Amer-ican sldft and before returning to the I'nit-ed I'nit-ed States to obtain another in Mexh-an territory. ter-ritory. This muFt be done da fly. The ton delay in jcerting these official papers, the promoters believe, would cause hundreds hun-dreds to remain away from the track and therefore the meet, if it had been run, would have only resulted in a loss. Tlie same conditions may apply to Tla Ji.ana and an early announcement t expected ex-pected on the final decision whether a meet will be held there this winter. The Tia Juana promoters are hoping for a modi rl-'at ion of the rule. While most of the horses will he shipped to New Orleans for the forty days' meeting there, which heglns next month, Havana will probably be the meeca for horsemen. The climatic conditions there and the fact that the sport will run 100 days or more, including Sunday racing, will cause many horsemen to ship to Cuha. The racing on the metropolitan circuit, which will close with the present meet at Bowie, has been more successful than any year since the ban on he t ting was placed. The attendance at all tracks was good and the- horsemen were given liberal lib-eral treatment.