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Show NO INDD JMENTS TO FAST HORSES New York Prominent members of the Jockey club have turned their attention at-tention to devising some system where trotters and pacers that have secured records may be retained for the turf and their services to racing lengthened as much as possible. A statement from one of the officers points out that under the present system sys-tem of conducting trotting, the horse that shows its speed ability during one racing season and secures a fast record rec-ord practically loses its earning capacity, ca-pacity, despite the fact that It can bo kopt useful for several seasons This is because managers, following follow-ing the custom of fifty years past, offer their feature events not to horses with fast marks, which will furnish the most interesting and exciting contests, con-tests, but to horses that havo a very slow record or nono at all. There being no inducement for the owner of the champions to race his horse, it must either bo kept Idle or sold to enter the matinee circles and be lost to the turf. The only Inducements offered to fast horses under existing systems are the free-for-alls, but there are not enough of them to tempt the best horses for the season. Each season several of the brightest bright-est lights of the harness turf are regularly reg-ularly Intx) what is called "out-classed " The handicap system Is being advocated ad-vocated but has not proved popular when tried occasionally. The newer system of racing fast horses in sweepstakes sweep-stakes races Is more highly favored. oo |