| Show pr th of I 1 1 A r t THE SUMMER SEASON OF net exp 111L 11 I TROTTING AND PACING i Get an 1 ra I 1 Indications That Light Harness Racing Will Boom All Through win cla i 1 6 iJ the Coining Season More Than Two Hundred Meetings to Already Scheduled Buffalo Track to Be Reopened at Fort be th Erie Canada on an Oval Mile Course tuc itUlf gl Copyright 1S01J > 1 I h i Units all signs fall the season of rei 1 185S will be an unusually buy one so dl far as contests of light harness horses th l go and owners trainers and drivers of ca a swift footed horses ore elated accordingly k t1 accord-ingly in In the first place the dates of more fit at i4 I i 1 than 00 meetings have already been fixed In the second place the Buffalo tt truck one ot the mot Important on 1 r ift i this continent Is to be reopened as a 01 I i member of the grand circuit not the c 4 V i old track It has been cut up Into city it lots and soldnor In Buffalo at all as a el 1 dt it 4 matter of fact but at Tort Erie Just across the Niagara In Canada where a i ji line oval mile track has been laid out d A 1 and all the necessary accompanying n I 1 buildings have been erected Thesa a buildings Include elands stables a pad I dock a house ot entertainment elc Nd I It is I true that there Is some dlsad vantage In locating one ot the mot 1m I I 1 portant of the grand circuit tracks outride out-ride the United mates Owing to the 11 liberal policy of the local authorities at I fort Eric however the most serious I J of these Is I furnished by the Journey 1 from Buffalo that will have to be made I by Americans In attendance who will of Course compose the majority I witnessIng I I I witness-Ing the matches from day to day In the heavy expense ot pulling up the build Ing and maintaining the track on an Un6ertainty H In I presumed ot course that certain Immunity from anllraclnc lavin has ben nreured at Port ErIe This yearn l1ulfolo progromme will Wis most attractive one the events Including four with prices of 1000 each for 210 and 20 trotters and 218 and 230 pacers The Rochester track which used lo rival that at Buffalo In Importance Impor-tance and where the best record of more than OliO season were made will remain closed this year and may never f 1 S r 1 1 h = 1 I I I I P7 r I C I I 1XI J 1 i 24 A I N I X I 1 J 11 I I I i II 1 I 4 1 1 9 I I ill I C 11 I im I I I I I 1 I 14 I If 1 I AqB 0 a f 1 i i r = I f l I I i 1 4 1 t I f I I 4 as ri 2 tl I I Z 22 I e I I I I I I V11 I I I sr Ill 11R 1 I 1 11 h 11 I l I 1 1 11 61 R 5 4 v AV a I 4 4 If gi s 0 5 I 1 4 w U 094 J Illh 11 14 t I I i I d I ti J r I I 1 I I I I f I I Publil had by courtesy of r W Cole it JUDGES STAND AT ronT ERIC I future as In the past But this journey I will occup only a few more minutes from the center of the city than the Journey from the same point to the track of other days and pleasant mom orles and nil be many times overbalanced overbal-anced by tho advantages of a Buffalo meeting I llunalo as all horsemen know Is located 12 11 lo-cated In the midst of u territory faltly 11 swarming with men who like lo pay r u for the sight or a lluht harness match I 111 Moreover It Is midway between the i that and the west directly on the route i that must be traveled by the fast nags I on their way from Chicago to Boston I dt tile most convenient dates for a I Uuffalo meeting In midAugust are In entire harmony with the general grand f i circuit scheme 1 Both the closing I of the track at Cuf rate and hl Us reopening at Tort Irle I Instead t In-stead of In Buffalo were caused by the provisions against poolselllng and other I oth-er forms of betting on roc tracks con I talned In the new constitution of the state of New York It Is now believed I by many among the promoters of trotting trot-ting and pacing that these provisions may b got over with In some localities locali-ties at least Attempls to reopen several al tracks that have been closed the some as Buffalos are to be mad this Year and It was at one time suggested that Ihe Buffalo track might bo rees tabllched on American soil But It was decided bj the capitalists Intereslcd In 1 trotting and paring there that while I the gelling over plan might work i roo one year It mliht fall the next It would not do therefore to risk the he reopened This latter In I certain un less the getting over plan Is found 10 uork mell In the localities Albers It ts 10 be trledlne Canada Is I separated from Rochester by the enlllO breadth ot > Lake Ontario and n track < at post 1I0pe Coburit or any other Dominion town would be Ion far away to stilt the eonolllcn > of Itochestrlina ho like to see Irolllng allJ lacing There will be no trotting or pacing matches In the Immediate vicinity of New York city this > car though there H I no doubt that an effort would have ben made tu hold a moetlnlt had the officers ot the riectwood i 1urh association associa-tion which still preserves the form of organization been able to secure a site I t Is I understood however that the search for one lien not ben given UI and that there In I some prohnblllty that It will bo brought 10 A successful con elusion this Jear In which cage a meeting meet-ing may b a looked for In 1899 Besides tile resumption at Buffalo these will be a revival of the meetings of the Lake Trie circuit consisting I think of Salamanca Sprlngllie Bradford Olean Warren and Jamestown and It Is at present understood that meetings will bo held for tile first time In three years oh all the tracks In the central New York circuit which Includes Newntk Geneva Elmira Blnghamtun Syracuse lllon and Albany All told Including J I A I Fl < I 1 1 q Ii 5it tr7 I HL l ii i flt 57 13 E tlIf1 111i i M OR IPRPE jM t 1 nix I i IIjfr I f I ifr t fJJF t I = 9NNA W j P 11V ZJ I gg 5 W t ffir 7 I P fo 1 U IM 4 lil r I t iiprtf i Nr1 l 4 11 ej N I 1 rkv 44 V t X 1fJJ fJ 1 I 11111 kll r IPubUhed by courtesy ot r W Cole PADDOCICAT fOnT EnIr the big meeting at Fort Erie and the smaller tracks In various parts of the stale nearly 30 meulngs have already I been scheduled In New York and additional addi-tional dales are yet to bo made I have wrlllen thus In detail concerning con-cerning the prospective meetings In New York state because It Was for I many years n main stronghold ot the Ironing horse and now bids fair to resume re-sume something of Its old time pres llgc Dut while the trotting and poo Ing magnates find much cause for congratulation con-gratulation In tho New York situation they are not all pleased with affairs In Pennsylvania and Connecticut where the antibellIng laws are quit na trct is In New York and no feasible plan for evasion has been devised At least the ordinary number of meetings and Perhaps more than uu1 will > this year be held In Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan Kentucky and other wlern nM southern states and everywhere the recently allalned popularity pop-ularity of the pacer seem likely to bo maintained The Increase of the pacer In popular favor hy the way Is one ot the mot Interesting features of track sport to lay A few year ago pavers were only tolerated on driving park track and the attendance at mot meetings on pacing days wa morally certain to fall off notably Now however there are probably len pacers to tour trotters In the field and so many promising young horses i arc being trained to the pacing gait Be almost to warrant the Irophe that the lays of the t trotter In speed contests are piacllcally numbered This I B 111 I be emphasized by the managers of the national lh horse shom next fall fe hen prizes for pacers will be offered for the first lime at the exhibition In Madison Square i Oirden New York Thin state of nffairs has ben largely I brought about b > the recfnt achieve ment of such pacers as Star Pointer the fastest holes In the world with a record of 1S9U John II Cento Joe Palchen and Hoberl J Of these horses It may be nnnouneed as Probable that Star Pointer before whom all colors were last year lowered will this Year appear In exhibition only while the others will matte uh a tree for all pace clean ns the world ties never seen before Concerning John U lentry and Joe Pnlchen It li I held by most good Judges that they will lead everthlng during the coining season fill the advnnta dcldcdlY In favor lOt the former Indeed In-deed there seems tu be little doubt that Gentry possesses greater speed polentlalllle than any other horse now living 1 and that with good handling hi may jet rqunl and perhaps even i out stria Star Pointer the king of the turf himself i The graM circuit now Include UK tracks ot Detroit Cleveland Columbus I I J J Ar 1 lit T II V = i1F V Ll A d f il fl 14 N i 1j I I f ii i 1 = llft m iS 71 f vjt fe r r 4 r q < I rL t L IV V PK 3q I IW ff i 1i IF j = t fitk bit I 41 1 LLTIJi11 i J 4 iS 3 wa ir TJ > air ir t 11 i < < Cl L 0 5 S 5 11071lrl 17 4 r1TIT7JN111Ji1 A 1 l u e I 4j41 I 1 I 41 K Im h 1 r ti il V it lfiw pl11111twro 6A I I I Jf M fiJ I g pl 1 i Q t I L IiI 1 ll A c I Ell IT t > t I E 11 I hr P Itl tj II I t 4 1 I P im fe I > t t I 3 Uf J V r lrl 11 oQ4rkx I iI 1l0XiNJ i r lllq wp > M nm I J m w 11 r11Id11 t Vj tII 4 i Fri I I Ll I Ft I 11onwIgIt 71 X ft1 I ci m j i 7 I UYka i t r t I iJ JJy Mllfil r I i U I r i ill j I J i I 1 t l r 1 11 h1i V11 1111 V I 11W J I 61ag I l i I l Viil 1 JN rfll I IPuUlshpd by courtesy of r W Cole1 J TOUT ERIE GRAND STAND Fort Wayne Buffalo Glens Falls N Y Hartford and nodvlll illusion To date the ndlIIe stock lifts shown the belt time Star Pointer having done Ills Quickest mile there But It Is I fondly fond-ly bellwod 1 by the managers ot every other circuit track that lteodIII Id was due an much to n fortuitous com flirtation of good weather and tine condition con-dition on Star Pointers part ns to excellence ex-cellence of track and strenuous effort wll surely ho made 10 lower the Read villa record nl nil the circuit meetings this Year DEXTER MARSHALL |
