| Show Effort of Representative Redd of ot ofSan San Juan to revive th the sport of or kings horse hors racing fo for which he has introduced a Bill ll Inthe in jr inthe the lower house of the legislature ture under the provisions of which a LI state racing commission would be creat created d under whose jurisdiction races would be conducted in Utah recalls the days when racing upon the part of mans maas best friend was wa attended by thousands when th the beautiful animals were placed on or their mettle mettIe and arid the sport was rca real sport spoil for fOl there thero is nothing prettier than to witness a race between two splendidly matched animals or moras more mor as they are paced trotted or run rut over a course That there are still stil man many devotees of the sport on th the turf Is shown b by the attendance last year ear e r at Belmont park parle Long Is Island Is- Is land and when persons Including the Prince of Wales Vales ales attended th the races I And about horse r racing The Th sport was first introduced in Ne York In 1665 by Governor Nicholls Nicholl when he established a race course cours t at at Hempstead Plains Long Iong Island which was the first official anc and properly organized race course on or orthe i the North American continent 0 Of I the horses that were then on the thi j I turf it is supposed that they were Dutch horses or of that breed in h j I that the spectators were largely 0 of I I. I that nationality I IMPORTATION SLOW j i I Ii j I The English race horse at that tha I time had not been developed and tr trany in any case was not imported Into mb I I New York until nearly one hundred 1 years after and it was not until 1 1629 that the first horses were Imported Imported Im Im- I ported from England into this 5 country In the Old World there had been beer horse racing in public during I Quee Elz Elizabeths Elizabeth's beths beth's time but it was not until James I ascended the throne that horse racing was legally legal legal- ly established He introduced into England the Markham Arab which was was known to be a purebred andIn and andIn andin in man many other ways ays did much to improve the breed of horses A dIStinction distinction dis dIS- was drawn between race horses and common horses the therace therace race horses were trained for their competition and pounds was the average weight of the professional Jockey KING SHOWS INTEREST During the reign of Charles Charles' Charles II the therace therace therace race courses at New Market l and at Datchet Meade near Windsor were were laid out and the king himself be became became became be- be came the first great supporter of th the 1 turf f The most Englishman En of of this this time w was S' S the he I Duke of New Kew Castle who in 1667 published his celebrated work on onI hor horsemanship the reading of which Is said to have so 50 interested Charles I that he became the largest individual individual ual Importer of foreign blood in the country I During the seventeenth century speed was not the sole quality of arace a arace arace race horse it was required to have both strength and endurance sofrom so sofrom sofrom from racing matured horses at long distances it was was an easy transition to Shorten horten the length of the course I and increase rase the peed spead d dof of the horse hors America AmerIc has developed some wonderful riders of race horses and I perhaps the best known one is Tod Sloan He was wasa a born jockey I recall the time that he took his 11 first ride It was In our old home in Kokomo Ind md In a livery stable there was a vicious stallion All AU who went about him were fearful of injury One noon when practically practically practically cally all the about the barn had gone to lunch Tod Sloan 1 I then a lad ad of years ears climbed up I the manger near the stallion worked his wa way o. o over to the stall I where the animal was tied andI and I jumped astride the back of the I animal In Tn an Instant the horse had broken his halter and out of I the barl bari lie ne ran For Bor almost two I hours Tod Sloan held fast to the I inane mane and at the vend end of the time I mentioned the an animal mal was tamed From that date Sloan was with I horses all all- the time |
